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Advance your career with the University of Reading's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses, designed to support your professional growth and lifelong learning. Whether you're seeking career advancement in education, business, or other fields, we offer a range of programmes tailored to your needs.
Henley Business School provides open enrolment courses that bring together professionals from diverse industries, offering fresh perspectives and networking opportunities. Our practical programmes in leadership, management, strategy, organisational change, and executive coaching cater to all career stages, enabling participants to make an immediate impact.
The Institute of Education offers flexible courses designed to fit around your work and life commitments. Explore courses on supporting successful learning in schools, teaching climate and sustainability in primary schools, understanding multilingual children's language development, and mental health leadership.
Short online courses offered provide free, limited access to explore key topics in food and agriculture. These interactive courses offer insights and discussion opportunities with peers. Topics include food loss, sustainable farming, food labels, processing technologies, the human microbiome, and food system controversies.
Advance your career with our flexible short courses in food processing, designed for professionals seeking practical, up-to-date training. Options include thermal processing, flavourist training, ice cream science and options for bespoke industry training for larger groups.
The Reading School of Pharmacy aims to cultivate a flexible, well-trained, and motivated workforce capable of meeting the demands of today's dynamic healthcare environments. Explore programmes in non-medical prescribing and pharmacy or clinical practice.
The International Study and Language Institute (ISLI) provides staff training programmes for organisations worldwide. Our courses cater to English language teachers seeking to enhance teaching methods, academics aiming to improve research writing in English, university administrators looking to strengthen support services, and university leadership teams.
The Department of Meteorology offers scheduled online courses supported by our internationally renowned academic staff. Advance your career and stay at the forefront of weather and climate science with courses covering tropical meteorology, climate services, climate impact modelling, fundamentals of meteorology, and statistics for weather and climate science.
Enhance your skills and knowledge with online courses. Delivered on the digital learning platform FutureLearn, these courses are accessible globally, and many come with CPD accreditation. Courses are free for a limited time, with paid upgrades for ongoing access and certification. Organisations can either purchase upgrades for staff or discuss commissioning a private, customisable course for an additional fee.
We are in the process of finalising our postgraduate taught courses for 2026/27 entry. In the meantime, you can view our 2025/26 courses.
