The Student Development Unit provides a range of courses to improve your employability and transferable skills. Student Development Unit courses can also assist you in building up evidence in your Personal Development Planning (PDP) portfolio.

The Student Development Unit provides a range of courses to improve your personal, employability and transferable skills. Student Development Unit courses can also assist you in building up evidence in your Personal Development Planning (PDP) portfolio.

The courses are broken down into three main areas:

Certificate of Professional Development
Available in 3 grouped disciplines: Communication; Personal Effectiveness; Leadership.
Each group is divided into 5 separate skills. Certification is attained by attending all 5 sessions in the group and completing a short evaluation.

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Q. Who may attend these courses and sessions?

A. All current Cardiff University students on degree and post graduate courses including doctorates. Masters students who have completed their studies and are awaiting the results of their autumn dissertation may attend in that term.

Q. How much do the sessions cost?

A. There is no charge for any of the courses/sessions except for Sign Language and 1st Aid Courses because in these cases we buy in the expertise and certification.  The cost of Sign...

Cardiff University decided on Monday evening that it would be charging a £9,000 fee level from 2012/13 onwards for all courses, to those that have been following the news on University Fees this will come as no surprise. The decision has been based primarily on replacing the lost government funding which we saw cut in the recent governments’ budget, the very reason we took 350 students to the streets of London in November to protest. However the landscape of higher...