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Short Courses

CMI ApprovedThe following is a list of available short courses, which can be tailored to customers' requirements and consultancy groups who are able to run specially tailored short programmes. We have developed and delivered a wide range of customised courses for clients in both the UK and overseas.

For further details of any of our short courses, please contact Northumbria Commercial Enterprises.

Subject areas include:

Arts
Built Environment
Business
Education
Engineering
Environmental Management
Government and Politics
Health and Community
Human Resources
Information and Records Management
IT Skills
Languages
Law
Professional Computing
Psychology for Business
Safety and Environment
Sports Science



Arts link to top of page

Performing Arts Group
  • Costume Design and Mask Making
  • Dance
  • Design for the Stage & Performance
  • Drama & Role Play in Management & Training
  • Lighting Design & Control
  • Music Technology
  • Play Text Analysis
  • Public Speaking
  • Stage Management

Built Environment link to top of page

The following are areas of specialities for which consultancy services are offered:

  • Acoustics
  • Air Conditioning
  • AutoCAD (Authorised Training Centre)
  • Building Design and Interior Design
  • CIOB Site Management Training
  • Contract Updates
  • Environmental Health and Safety Legislation
  • Facilities Management
  • Lean Construction
  • Partnering
  • PFI
  • Planning Supervision
  • Property Management
  • Property Marketing
  • Real Estate
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainability
  • Thermal Modelling
  • Town and Country Planning
  • Urban Regeneration
  • Valuation and Investment
  • Value Management
  • Ventilation
  • CPD Programmes (Please note that this programme runs annually from September to April, please contact Joanne Forster on 0191 243 7503 or joanne.forster@northumbria.ac.uk for further details)

Consultancy services in:

  • Access Auditing in Compliance with Disability Discrimination Act
  • Acoustics
  • Benchmarking
  • Best Value Implementation
  • BREEAM Assessment
  • Building Services incorporating M&E Controls and Lighting
  • Claims Advice
  • Client Brief Development
  • Conservation and Restoration Appraisal and Management
  • Environmental Auditing
  • Environment Impact Analysis
  • Partnering and Integrative Working Practices
  • Post-occupancy Evaluation
  • Procurement Advice
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • Value Management
  • Whole Life Costing

Business link to top of page

  • An Introduction to Selling
  • Advanced Business Writing Skills
  • Assertiveness
  • Business Improvement using Performance Psychology
  • Business Planning
  • Business Strategy - A Simple Guide
  • Business Writing Skills
  • Coaching
  • Communication and Team Building
  • Conflict Management
  • Consumer Behaviour and Customer Care
  • Corporate Development
  • Developing Internal Consultancy Skills
  • Developing Supervisory Skills
  • English Language for Business
  • Environmental Management
  • Event Management
  • Finance for non-Financial Managers
  • Managing People
  • Managing Business Information
  • Managing Meetings
  • MBTI - Myers Briggs in the Workplace
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Organisational Talent Management
  • Organisational Employee Surveys
  • Presentation Skills
  • Problem-solving and Decision Making
  • Psychological Testing
  • Records Management
  • Recruitment Skills
  • Risk Management
  • Self and Time Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Supervision Skills
  • Team Building
  • The Leadership Programme
  • Time and Stress Management
  • Women into Management

Education link to top of page

Returning to Teaching including:
  • Numeracy
  • Literacy
  • Science
  • ICT
  • PE
  • SEN
  • Assessment and Record Keeping
  • Foundation Subjects (Art/Music/History/Geography)
  • Behaviour Management
  • Parents as Partners
  • Classroom Management
  • Classroom Observation
  • Job applications/interviews
  • Evaluation
  • The Foundation Stage
  • Reading

Engineering link to top of page

Environmental Management link to top of page

  • ArcView 3.2 to 8.1 conversion course
  • Environmental Awareness
  • Environmental Management Systems
  • Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) course
  • Sustainable Business Practice
  • Waste Management and Waste Minimisation
Environmental Consultancy Services in:
  • Sustainable business practice
  • Environmental management systems
  • Waste management and waste minimisation
  • General environmental awareness training

Government and Politics link to top of page

  • Competition and Best Value
  • Delivering Quality
  • Developing New Management Structures
  • Improving Local Democracy
  • Information for Consumers
  • Involving the Public
  • Multi Agency Working
  • Partnership Working
  • Performance Management
  • Public and Private Partnerships
  • Regionalism and Devolution
  • Research Skils for Managers
  • Resource Allocation
  • Responding to Europe
  • Social Inclusion
  • Strategic Management
  • Working for Equality and Diversity

Health and Community link to top of page

  • Clinical Supervision - Developing Practice
  • Current Issues in Caring (for those with or affected by HIV)
  • Dental Radiography for Surgery Staff
  • Diabetes in Children and Young People
  • Diabetes in Context
  • Family and Network Interventions with Psychosis: an Introduction
  • Flexible Accreditation in Health, Social Care and Education
  • Heart Failure
  • Infection Control
  • Introduction to Health Policy in Britain
  • Introduction to System Practice and Family Therapy
  • Leadership and Change Management in Health Care
  • Promoting Sexual Health
  • Quantitative Research - the case for SPSS in Health and Social Care Settings
  • Tissue Viability
  • Understanding Psychosexual Difficulties
  • Valuing Qualititative Research in Health and Social Care Settings
  • X-Ray Assessment and Interpretation

Human Resources link to top of page

  • Essential Interviewing Skills
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Participative Methods
  • Performance Review Skills
  • Recruitment & Selection Skills
  • Training the Trainer

Information and Records Management link to top of page

  • Developing a Programme for Managing an Organisation's Records
  • Developing a Retention Schedule
  • Managing Electronic Records
  • Managing the Information Asset and the Corporate Memory

IT Skills link to top of page

  • An Introduction to Programming in C for Scientists and Engineers
  • An Introduction to Programming in Visual Basic for Scientists and Engineers
  • C++ Hands On Conversion Course
  • Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business Principles
  • High Integrity Embedded Systems
  • Introduction to Relational Databases
  • Introduction to the use of information communication technologies (ICTs)
  • Java Hands On Conversion Course
  • Lotus Notes (Hands On Guide)
  • Microsoft Access
  • Oracle & SQL Plus
  • Software Project Management
  • Software Quality Assurance
  • Software Systems Analysis & Design
  • SQL Plus (Getting The Most From Your Database)
  • The Internet for Business
  • UNIX (Hands On Guide)
  • Visual Basic
  • Web Design & Development

Languages link to top of page

  • English for Professional Purposes
  • Teacher Development for Teachers of English as an International Foreign Language
  • Advanced English for Teachers on International Programmes in Higher and Further Education (AETIP)
  • English Language Summer School
  • Summer School Pre-Sessionals
  • ELAN (English Language Course at Northumbria)

Foreign Language Training including:

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Consultancy Services provided by English Language Centre at Northumbria

Law link to top of page

Legal Services Unit

Professional Computing link to top of page

- Designing with UML

- e-business

  • Fundamentals
  • Essentials
  • Marketing
  • Integration
  • Managing the Technology
  • Ready to E-shop

- Entrepreneurship

  • Small business start up
  • Improving the small technology based business for growth

- Managing Corporate Data

  • Developing a programme for managing an organisation's records
  • Managing electronic records
  • Managing the information asset and the Corporate memory
  • Developing a retention schedule

- Professional software design and development

  • Java
  • Intermediate Java
  • Enterprise Java & XML technologies

- Vendor accredited courses for Cisco Certification

- Vendor accredited courses for Linus Certification

- Vendor accredited courses for Oracle 9i Certification

  • Introduction to SQL
  • DBA fundamentals
  • PL/SQL

Psychology for Business link to top of page

  • Consumer Behaviour and Customer Care
  • MBTI Myers Briggs in the Workplace
  • Organisational Talent Management
  • Organisational Employee Survey
  • Developing Internal Consultancy Skills
  • Women into Management
  • Authentic Happiness and How We Might Achieve it at Work
  • Traffic Psychology
  • Employee Performance Appraisal
  • Emotional Intelligence at Work
  • Streamlining the Selection Process
  • Privacy Security and Trust for e-commerce

Safety and Environment link to top of page

  • Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser Course
  • IEMA Approved EARA Foundation Course in Environmental Auditing
  • Ecotoxicology for Chemical Hazard Communications
  • Introduction to Direct Toxicity Assessment (DTA)
  • Introduction of Chemical Hazard Communication
  • Part 1 - Classification and Labelling for Supply
  • Part 2 - Classification and Labelling for Transport
  • Part 3 - Safety Data Sheets
  • Managing Safety
  • NEBOSH Certificate
  • Toxicology for Chemical Hazard Communication
  • Working Safely

Consultancy by Northumbrian Environmental Training and Research Centre (NETREC) in:

  • Workplace Risk Assessment
  • Introduction to Environmental Law
  • Environmental Law Update
  • Introduction to COSHH
  • Environmental Auditor Interview Techniques

Sports Science link to top of page

  • Managing Sports Events - Crisis or Control?
  • Sports Marketing - Strategy Through to Action
  • Human Resource Management for Sports Managers
  • Equity Issues for Sport Development


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