Understanding the Global Marketplace - a UK Perspective
Abstract
Within the UK context, I will share the experiences of the Department for Continuing Education at
the University of Oxford in developing short professional-updating
courses and part-time
modular
MSc programmes in the sciences, engineering and technology. The Department for Continuing
Education offers these professionally-oriented
programmes, whether non-credit-bearing,
credit-bearing
or award-bearing,
via its Continuing Professional Development Centre. The Continuing
Professional Development Centre offers approximately 180 different course options on an annual
basis and caters to the needs of about 1500 individual students through a mixture of face-to-face,
online and hybrid (a blend of face-to-face
and online) delivery.