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Professional Development Courses

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses are designed to give enhanced skills to help individuals improve personal performance in their professional working role.  Undoubtedly, for employers, helping individuals to be better skilled results in a more productive and valued workforce.

As part of our professional development work at University College Birmingham we have consulted with industrial liaison boards and academic colleagues to develop CPD modules that offer opportunities for busy individuals to successfully complete a range of academic qualifications on a flexible basis.

Pick and mix modules  - how does it work?

It is literally like building a qualification to suit an individuals or employers needs. Individual learners or employers pick and mix one or more modules from the following list. They are delivered in either day release or block modes.

Choose from:

Business and Marketing Modules

  • Practical Marketing Applications
  • Consumer Behaviour for Marketing
  • Public Relations and Promotion
  • Professional Creative Development
  • Communications & Psychology
  • Enterprise start-up Studies
  • Applied e-business & e-marketing
  • Creative Communications
  • Human Resources Management

Entertainment Modules

  • The Management of Food and Drink
  • Entertainment and Society
  • Entertainment and Event Management
  • Advertising and Promotion

Hospitality Modules

  • Advanced Kitchen and Larder Skills Development
  • Advanced Pastry Skills Development
  • Effective Recipe Development and Costing
  • Food Safety, Legislation and Quality Control
  • Specialist Kitchen and Larder Techniques
  • Specialist Pastry Techniques
  • Creative Product Development Stage 1 and 2 ( Two separate modules)
  • Innovative Marketing and Design
  • Nutrition and Dietary Trends
  • Exploring Services Management
  • Food, Beverage and Accommodation Applications
  • Managing Activities and People

Adventure Tourism Modules

  • Adventure and Society
  • Adventure Industry in Context
  • Risk Management
  • Adventure Tourism Operations
  • Adventure Tourism Project Management
  • Adventure Development and Innovation
  • Adventure Tourism in an International Context