Short Courses, WBL and CPD Course List

The Geography team offers training, updating and consultancy services across a wide spectrum.
From specific geographical techniques and applications [such as GIS, digital mapping, remote sensing, environmental hazards and tourism and the environment] through to wider issues such as climate change, environmental justice, rural sustainability, environmental management systems and sustainable business development. We are always happy to discuss your specific content and delivery requirements, and to try to tailor programmes that best fit with your needs.

Work-based Distance/eLearning – The Environment and Sustainability :

We have a number of training packages - each one full of information, resources and links - that are delivered by a team of experienced facilitators over the web. They will give you the background and the understanding that you need to keep abreast of the topic and all of our material is regularly updated.

Subjects include:

    * Environmental Legislation and Regulation
    * Industrial Wastewater Treatment - Trade Effluent Charging and Control
    * Setting up and Maintaining an Environmental Management System
    * Tools for Monitoring a Company’s Environmental Performance
    * Environmental Reporting and Auditing
    * Carbon Footprints and Carbon Offsetting
    * Air Pollution and Control
    * Contaminated Land Remediation
    * Sustainable Business Development
    * Healthy Lifestyles
    * Uses for Public Health Statistics
    * Analysis of Sediments and Pollen

Staffordshire University/Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management Online CPD Units

Staffordshire University and CIWEM have developed a new training experience for you. Using a web-based elearning format, allowing you to study at any time, and anywhere, that you have a web connection, our new on-line training units will provide you with valuable continuing professional development (CPD).

The assessments that enable you to demonstrate that you have met unit the learning outcomes are all aligned with the 14 Mandatory Competences that you will need to demonstrate when applying for CIWEM corporate membership.

So, why not gain CPD whether you are working towards completion of your application for CIWEM membership or just to improve your knowledge in the area.  These units have the benefit of tutor-support through Skype, email and by phone and provide both the background and detailed knowledge that you need to really understand the technologies that are applied to remove pollution from water.

Each tutor-supported unit includes the following:

• Access to an on line training unit containing teaching and learning content and linked to a wide range of other quality web-based resources
  

• Online support and feedback throughout the unit from a tutor with nearly 10 years experience supporting on-line learners, and who regularly reviews applications for CIWEM corporate membership and who has acted as a professional interviewer for membership applicants for many years

• A range of built-in self-assessment and self-evaluation questions throughout the unit

• One or more summative assessments [assignments] addressing all of the unit learning outcomes [LOs]

• Clear mapping of the above assignment(s) across a range of the CIWEM 14 Mandatory Competences [MCs] used when reviewing applications for corporate membership of the Institution

• Provision of individual feedback to each participant covering how well you have met the LOs for the unit, and reviewing the extent to which you have addressed the associated CIWEM MCs

• Suggestions about how you might consider modifying your thoughts to align responses more closely to the requirements of the CIWEM MCs

• A completion certificate for participants who successfully achieve all of the unit LOs

Each 24 hour equivalent unit runs over a period of 15 weeks and each 8 hour equivalent unit runs over 5 weeks. You will need to devote 2.5-3.5 hours per week as you work through each one - the precise time will depend on your prior knowledge and your depth of interest in the different topics being covered. Each unit is free-standing and can be taken either individually or in any sequence.

Look here for more information about content, costs, start dates and the online handbook for each of the courses currently on offer:

http://www.ciwem.org/units

CPD/Updating for Teachers :

We offer short updating courses for providing the ideas, information, examples and resources that will help you cover relevant areas of the curriculum from a contemporary and practical viewpoint. Please get in touch with us and we will try to provide a relevant and timely experience in the topics and issues that are of most pressing need to you. Subject-related themes that we have covered in the past include climate change, water pollution, contaminated land remediation, wastewater treatment technology, independent learning and enterprise/entrepreneurship in the curriculum.

Services to Small and Medium Sized Companies :

One of the Geography team is a UK Government Envirowise Helpline Advisor who specialises in providing practical environmental advice to small and medium sized companies, and helping them to realise their cost-saving waste minimisation plans. In conjunction with colleagues in the Institute for Environment, Sustainability and Regeneration, we can offer a range of consultancy and training support packages designed to help your business grow more sustainably and help it to prosper.

Further Information :

If you have any queries about the range of training, short course or updating services that we have available then please contact Dr. Glynn Skerratt [r.g.skerratt@staffs.ac.uk; Skype: Glynnn] or Sara Buckley on +44 1782 294 283.