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Professional and Executive Development

Newcastle University provides professional skills development for business partners around the world.

Visit our Academic Experience page for information about the 2025-26 academic year.

Our Centre for Professional and Executive Development focuses on continuing professional development (CPD). Our courses combine world-leading research and specialist expertise, so you can be sure that your organisation will gain market-leading skills.

We have courses anyone can sign-up to, but we also design courses depending on your business needs.

The courses can be either face-to-face on-campus, or online, so geography is not a problem.

Many of our courses award academic credits or even accreditation from professional bodies.

Centre for Professional and Executive Development

Our courses help meet the growing demand for professional skills development from all kinds of businesses and organisations, in the UK and around the world.

Find out more about our centre.

Our CPD courses

We offer a range of courses for industry. Many of our courses award academic credit, and some carry professional body accreditation.

Browse our full list of CPD courses

Case studies

Our case studies illustrate the ways in which Newcastle University has developed and delivered high level and high quality courses for employers coming from a range of industries and types of organisations in the public and private sector.

The techniques being employed here are at the forefront of their field.