Explore our online short courses and CPD

Looking to improve your skills or change career? Need CPD for professional recognition? Our cutting-edge online short courses and CPD courses could be the key.

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Online credit bearing short courses
Credit bearing online short courses

Online short university credit bearing courses that you can use to support your CPD requirements or to upskill.

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CPD accredited courses

Many of our short courses are CPD accredited, allowing professionals to use the learning time towards their own CPD requirements.

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Free online short courses

Our free online MOOCs (massive open online courses) make higher education accessible for everyone and allow you to experience how online learning works.

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Short course
Pre-Sessional English for Academic Purposes
If you're an international student and want to improve your English language skills before you start an undergraduate or postgraduate degree course, the Derby English Language Centre's pre-sessional English course can help you. This course is studied online.
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Short course
Working with Vulnerable People
This short, university credit bearing course will cover a wide range of concepts including vulnerability, safeguarding, disability, inequality, poverty, mental health and substance abuse. The module will also introduce you to the policy, legal and ethical perspectives surrounding vulnerability and teach you how to identify, assess and manage risk within frameworks and theories.
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Online short courses and CPD

We offer a growing range of professional development online courses to help you in your personal development. It is important to maintain and enhance your skills and knowledge throughout your working life to remain effective in the workplace, to maintain professional registration, to improve your career prospects and to build competence, confidence and credibility.

Our professional development courses include standalone modules which provide transferable University credits, short courses and free courses. All are available to complete entirely online, and help you to meet your personal and professional development goals.

We are proud to be an accredited provider of the CPD Standards Office for our online short courses and free courses, demonstrating that they conform to CPD best practice and are appropriate for inclusion in a formal CPD record.