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continuous professional development

Answers to Business courses are accredited for CPD by The Law Society and meets the criteria for most professional bodies in the UK in ares such as accountancy, architecture and banking. All our 1-day courses equate to 5.5 hours CPD and our 2-day courses equate to 11 hours. This takes into account, introductions, coffee and lunch breaks which do not count as CPD time.

CPD What is it?

"CPD is defined as the holistic commitment to structured skills enhancement and personal or professional competence." DTI's 'Accelerating Change' report 2002.

Within the professions themselves and the academic and Institutional communities, a number of different terms are used to describe the generic activity of maintaining and improving professional competence. These range from Continuing Education (CE), Continuing Education and Training (CET), Continuing Professional Education (CPE), Continuing Vocational Training (CVT), to Post Qualification Development (PQD). Increasingly, however the term Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is becoming accepted as the preferred term and is widely used within the professions.

The key features of effective CPD are that it is :

Continuous - throughout the practitioner's working life

Professional/Organisation focused - necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties and related to maintaining the quality and relevance of professional services

Broad Based - knowledge and skills and the development of personal qualities