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• Consultancy Services
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)
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• Training and Professional Qualifications

Training and Professional Qualifications

The University of Sheffield offers a wide range of professional training and development courses to help your staff maintain and update their knowledge and skills. A range of study options provide flexibility for employees and employers to meet real business and career needs. Many of our courses are accredited by professional bodies.

Short courses

The University runs a number of short courses that provide highly focused training for professionals wishing to gain specialist knowledge and skills quickly. All our CPD courses are taught by experienced and internationally recognised experts from the University and industry.

Some examples of our short courses include:

• Health and Social Care for NHS practitioners (over 50 courses)
• Process safety & loss prevention for the chemical, pharmaceutical, process, nuclear and off-shore industries (9 courses)
• Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (5 courses)
• Environmental Management of Urban Land and Water (7 courses)

The Sheffield MBA

Our MBA programme provides high-quality education in general management, with an emphasis on understanding and managing complex organisations. It can broaden your experience in a particular management field or be the chance for you to develop new business knowledge and skills, opening up a wider range of job opportunities, or enabling a career change.

The Sheffield MBA is a one year programme and is accredited by the AMBA. Students have access to all the facilities of one of the country's largest universities, as well as being provided with many opportunities to engage with business. For further information, please visit the MBA website.

MBA website

Executive Education

Our Executive MBA is designed for middle management professionals from both the public and private sector, who are looking to advance their careers into senior management.

The two year part-time MBA begins in January 2009, and is delivered using the latest technology by a team of international experts. The MBA is accredited by the Chattered Management Institute (CMI), which means that you gain two prestigious qualifications from one programme: our Executive MBA and a CMI Executive Diploma in Strategic Management. For further information, please visit the MBA website.

EMBA website

The Institute for Lifelong Learning

The Institute for Lifelong Learning offers adult learners a wide range of part-time Degrees and Certificates in a variety of subjects, including IT and languages. Their courses are flexible and accessible and there are no formal entry requirements for any of the programmes. They have been operating for over 50 years and have plenty of experience of working with mature learners from a variety of backgrounds. If you would like further information, please visit their website.

The Institute for Lifelong Learning