Continuing Professional Development
CPD courses
In addition to our range of postgraduate taught and research courses, we offer a range of short, flexible and bespoke courses to support you to continue your professional development.
These courses are designed to enable you to enhance your professional skills, develop and update your knowledge and meet your personal and professional potential. They are delivered through a range of flexible learning methods including seminars and workshops outside normal office hours, and via e-learning, so that you can fit the course around existing commitments.
Choose an area:
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Biology, Chemistry and Materials
Faculty of Science and Engineering Open Professional Programme
This programme offers a portfolio of units, at different levels and of differing sizes, to allow you to continue your professional development.
The wide variety of subject areas and flexible nature of the programme allows you to tailor your learning, gaining academic credit for each unit you complete. You can accrue credits over a long period and may obtain sufficient credits to be awarded a formal qualification of the University.
The programme serves to advance you professionally and personally, and the credits you obtain can be used to apply for admission to further appropriate MMU programmes.
Units are available in a number of areas:
- Biology, Chemistry and Materials & Health Science
- Computing and Mathematics
- Environmental and Geographical Sciences
- Engineering and Technology.
For more information visit the Science and Engineering CPD website.
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Business Skills
Business Skills
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School training and development for business professionals
Continue to work whilst gaining invaluable expertise and qualifications through one of our part-time professional programmes. From our flagship Executive MBA to a range of part time post-graduate programmes, many of our courses offer flexible postgraduate study options, carry dual accreditation with professional bodies and start dates are twice a year visit our Professional courses page for a full list of our programmes.
If you are a business looking to upskill your workforce, contact our business and public engagement team to discuss our bespoke offerings.
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Computing and Mathematics
Faculty of Science and Engineering Open Professional Programme
This programme offers a portfolio of units, at different levels and of differing sizes, to allow you to continue your professional development.
The wide variety of subject areas and flexible nature of the programme allows you to tailor your learning, gaining academic credit for each unit you complete. You can accrue credits over a long period and may obtain sufficient credits to be awarded a formal qualification of the University.
The programme serves to advance you professionally and personally, and the credits you obtain can be used to apply for admission to further appropriate MMU programmes.
Units are available in a number of areas:
- Biology, Chemistry and Materials & Health Science
- Computing and Mathematics
- Environmental and Geographical Sciences
- Engineering and Technology.
For more information visit the Science and Engineering CPD website.
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Education
Faculty of Education Professional Development Programme
Offering professionals working within the education community high quality courses in professional development that enhance their skills, extend their knowledge and challenge their thinking.
All courses and units are taught outside normal working hours, either in the evening or at weekends.
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Engineering and Technology
Faculty of Science and Engineering Open Professional Programme
This programme offers a portfolio of units, at different levels and of differing sizes, to allow you to continue your professional development.
The wide variety of subject areas and flexible nature of the programme allows you to tailor your learning, gaining academic credit for each unit you complete. You can accrue credits over a long period and may obtain sufficient credits to be awarded a formal qualification of the University.
The programme serves to advance you professionally and personally, and the credits you obtain can be used to apply for admission to further appropriate MMU programmes.
Units are available in a number of areas:
- Biology, Chemistry and Materials & Health Science
- Computing and Mathematics
- Environmental and Geographical Sciences
- Engineering and Technology.
For more information visit the Science and Engineering CPD website.
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English and Creative Writing
Alongside our full and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, the Department of English offers a range of stand-alone short courses. Available to study as discrete, one-off units, many of these courses also provide the option to accrue credits towards a postgraduate qualification in either MA Creative Writing or MA English Studies
Encompassing a range of critical and creative subjects, our short courses are delivered by a team of fully research-active staff, widely published writers and industry-standard journalists.
The department also offers a number of continuous professional development training courses, including Teaching Creative Writing Workshop – developed to support the new A-Level in Creative Writing – and Journalism Skills for Creative Writers, delivering a range of skills and development opportunities to teachers, lecturers and other professionals.
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English Language for Teachers and Academics
The Language Centre has considerable experience creating courses that are designed to match the specific needs and interests of groups of clients such as English language teachers or academics from various disciplines whose first language is not English.
The courses can meet a variety of goals such as:
- to help you feel more confident about using and understanding natural English in a variety of academic and professional settings
- to communicate effectively in academic contexts such as in the classroom, at conferences or in writing, when English is not your first language
- to expand the range of teaching techniques and methodologies used in the language classroom
- We can organize special custom-designed courses for groups who have particular interests.
Find out more at the Language Centre website.
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Environmental and Geographical Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering Open Professional Programme
This programme offers a portfolio of units, at different levels and of differing sizes, to allow you to continue your professional development.
The wide variety of subject areas and flexible nature of the programme allows you to tailor your learning, gaining academic credit for each unit you complete. You can accrue credits over a long period and may obtain sufficient credits to be awarded a formal qualification of the University.
The programme serves to advance you professionally and personally, and the credits you obtain can be used to apply for admission to further appropriate MMU programmes.
Units are available in a number of areas:
- Biology, Chemistry and Materials & Health Science
- Computing and Mathematics
- Environmental and Geographical Sciences
- Engineering and Technology.
For more information visit the Science and Engineering CPD website.
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Finance and Professional Services
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School training and development for business professionals
Our part-time professional programmes are designed to enrich your experience to an advanced level of study. Designed to allow you to shape your career development or choose your next challenge, whilst continuing to work and benefit your employer.
From our flagship Executive MBA to a range of part time post graduate programmes, many of our courses offer flexible postgraduate study options, carry dual accreditation with professional bodies and start dates twice a year visit http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/business-school/study/professional/ for a full list of our programmes.
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Health Science
Faculty of Science and Engineering Open Professional Programme
This programme offers a portfolio of units, at different levels and of differing sizes, to allow you to continue your professional development.
The wide variety of subject areas and flexible nature of the programme allows you to tailor your learning, gaining academic credit for each unit you complete. You can accrue credits over a long period and may obtain sufficient credits to be awarded a formal qualification of the University.
The programme serves to advance you professionally and personally, and the credits you obtain can be used to apply for admission to further appropriate MMU programmes.
Units are available in a number of areas:
- Biology, Chemistry and Materials & Health Science
- Computing and Mathematics
- Environmental and Geographical Sciences
- Engineering and Technology.
For more information visit the Science and Engineering CPD website.
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Health, Psychology and Social Care
Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care Professional Development Programme
Alongside our full and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, The Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care offers a range of short, flexible and bespoke courses, many of which lead to professional accreditation.
These courses are designed to enhance your professional skills, develop and update your knowledge and can enable you to accrue credits towards a first degree or postgraduate study.
A range of flexible learning methods are used, including workshops, seminars, action learning sets and e-learning to enable students to fit studies around their existing commitments.
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Languages, Linguistics and TESOL
Our languages section provides a range of courses through our British Council-accredited Language Centre, through our role as lead partner of the north west consortium of Routes into Languages, and through our staff’s founding links with the Film in Language Teaching Association (FILTA).
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Management and Leadership
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School training and development for business professionals
Our part-time professional programmes are designed to enrich your experience to an advanced level of study. Designed to allow you to shape your career development or choose your next challenge, whilst continuing to work and benefit your employer.
From our flagship Executive MBA to a range of part time post graduate programmes, many of our courses offer flexible postgraduate study options, carry dual accreditation with professional bodies and start dates twice a year visit http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/business-school/study/professional/ for a full list of our programmes.
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Marketing and Digital Marketing
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School training and development for business professionals
Our part-time professional programmes are designed to enrich your experience to an advanced level of study. Designed to allow you to shape your career development or choose your next challenge, whilst continuing to work and benefit your employer.
From our flagship Executive MBA to a range of part time post graduate programmes, many of our courses offer flexible postgraduate study options, carry dual accreditation with professional bodies and start dates twice a year visit http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/business-school/study/professional/ for a full list of our programmes.
Bespoke courses for Business
We have significant expertise in developing bespoke courses and qualifications for businesses and have done so for a number of clients including Tesco, Bank of New York Mellon and HMRC.
To find out visit our Business and Public Engagement page.