Education and Childhood professional development
Explore our range of courses.
Develop your staffÂ
Develop your staff with the confidence, knowledge, and skills in the field of education with one of our continuing professional development (CPD) courses.
Our academic staff have a broad range of skills and expertise that will cater for all professional development needs. Their extensive research and experience, passion, and commitment, supports and informs each of our courses. We blend academic expertise with industry knowledge to offer flexible learning solutions for all academic school staff.
Through our industry driven and innovative processes we can offer a wide range of courses, from one-day to year-long credited courses.
Longer continued professional development courses
Discover our year-long courses in continued professional development (CPD).
Tailored solutions for schools
The School of Education and Childhood is committed to supporting ongoing professional development in schools within and beyond our partnership. We are proud to offer a range of structured and bespoke continuing professional development (CPD) provision delivered by expert practitioners who provide engaging opportunities for professional development.
In the School of Education and Childhood, we have education experts from a wide range of fields and combine research based theoretical knowledge with practical expertise; this allows us to deliver tailored CPD training to suit the needs of your school setting.
We can offer bespoke CPD from an hour to a whole day or more and are able to tailor professional learning across a range of curriculum and pedagogical areas. Courses can be held on site at UWE Bristol's Frenchay Campus or can be delivered in your own school or group of schools. Please get in touch with us (pd@uwe.ac.uk) to discuss how we might support your staff.
Inspire the next generation of educators
"I felt the course empowers professionals to feel that they can evaluate their professional practice. The tutoring was excellent: encouraging, thought provoking, creative and supportive."
Sarah ITE Primary Education
"Pretty much all the lecturers on our course have had experience as a teacher, and so we can use their ideas and genuine enthusiasm to help enrich our own teaching."
Jo ITE Primary Education
OFSTED rating
Our most recent Ofsted inspection published in March 2022 rated UWE Bristol as good across primary and secondary education training. These are some of the key strengths the report picked out:
- “Course leaders and teaching staff have strong subject expertise.”
- "Trainees receive high-quality centre-based training from subject experts."
- “Relevant and up-to-date educational research and practice inform the curriculum design. Programme leaders and tutors use their wider expertise effectively to enhance the curriculum.”
- “Leaders’ careful consideration of theory and practice deepens trainees’ knowledge of subject content and teaching strategies.”
- "The curriculums for personal, social and emotional development are particular strengths."
- "Across the partnership, centre-based and school-based staff prioritise trainees’ personal well-being. Skilled practitioners support trainees who need to catch up, or are struggling emotionally, very effectively. Trainees know that they are given every chance to succeed."
Contact us
Contact the Education and Childhood CPD Team and speak with us:
- Email: pd@uwe.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81158
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