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Work based learning handbook
A new hands-on guide for working students helps you get the most out of your university experience by Dr Ruth Helyer, Head of Workforce Development (Research & Policy) at Teesside.
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Lifelong inspiration - skills for your staff
Skilled workers are a major priority to succeed in growing international competition.
Come and talk to us. We can work with you to create the right solution for your individual needs.
- learning is work based at higher education level
- we'll write new packages of learning to suit your needs
- accreditation of in-house training.
Continuing professional development
Maximising the potential of individuals and business.
Continuing professional development (CPD) is a way of supporting individuals in the workplace to develop new knowledge and skills. It can be any activity that helps you achieve your career goals, better understand your job and how to do it better.
You can gain considerable knowlege from work, volunteering and life.
Under accreditation of prior learning (APL) you may be awarded credit for this which which can be credited towards the course you want to study.
Find out more about APL
Sectors
- Crime, forensic and policing
- Educational leadership
- Engineering and manufacturing management
- Foreign languages
- Fraud and financial crime
- Health and social care
- ICT and Computing
- Media
- Performance masterclasses
Leading Roles - watch the video - Work-based studies
- Summer university
Leadership for education courses
Teesside University Business School offer leadership development and organisational change programmes which are designed to build leadership capability and capacity in schools.
Leadership for education courses
Management masterclass series
Improve the business capability of managers in manufacturing, engineering and supply chain companies.
Management masterclass series
Teesside University open learning in engineering
Teesside University open learning in engineering is the leading designer and developer of open and distance learning for the engineering and process industries.
Go to the open learning in engineering website
New approaches to workforce development
We brought employers and higher education staff together to discuss successful working partnerships.
New approaches to workforce development
Pathfinder projects
Teesside University successfully bid for Pathfinder funds to support 16 different projects - the highest number of projects for any institution in the North East. Some examples of these are:
- Business improvement techniques (BIT) Business improvement techniques (BIT) for manufacturing organisations – a UCPD in BIT, covering a range of themes including performance management, total productive management and lean manufacturing, all of which are relevant to modern manufacturing organisations.
- Body location and recovery – a level 4 non-accredited short course in scientific techniques of body location, recovery and analysis developed in collaboration with Durham University.
- Development of key performance indicators (KPIs) in manufacturing organisations – equipping learners with the knowledge and skills necessary for selecting and establishing KPIs and how to link these KPIs with the critical success factors and key business processes of the manufacturing organisation.
