Welcome to the PG Dip Career Development, incorporating the QCD.
Emma Harrison
Course Director
Course Director
Key dates
Course start date: 16 September 2024
Academic Calendar: Semesters
View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2024-25 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.
Welcome and induction
Your Welcome Week is an essential introduction to your course and student life at CCCU, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.
It is important to check your Welcome Schedule for all the activities you are required to attend during the week.
If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before your arrival to let you know which group you will be in.
Your teaching timetable
UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities on a course. Your individual timetable will be available via MyTimetable and is personalised to show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend.
Your individual student timetable can only be produced once you have engaged with online registration and created your computing account. It is essential you complete these tasks when invited, so that your course team can assign you to your teaching activities and publish your individual timetable.
Find out more about all aspects of timetabling for new students including user guides.
Welcome
This is the first step of a great adventure into the world of Careers as a fully qualified careers practitioner. Whether you already have some experience in careers provision, or this is a new venture having spent time in other sectors, we want to utilise all your expertise and experience to enrich the learning experience of all our students and staff too.
Getting started
If you are new to the world of Careers, please familiarise yourself with two important organisations by visiting their websites.
The first is the professional body in the UK, the Career Development Institute (CDI). This is the awarding body for the QCD (the professional qualification) so if you would like to attain this important qualification you need to join the CDI as a student member and you will also need to register as a QCD student at the beginning of the course.
The other important organisation is the Careers and Enterprise Company. This is the organisation that drives the government’s strategy on careers work in schools and colleges. There is a lot of important information about policy on this website as well as a host of really good resources and publications
https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/
Your welcome and induction will be w/c 16 September 2024 - we look forward to meeting you then.
Pre-course reading
For those of you who have not studied at university for a long time or at all, the Study Skills Handbook by Stella Cottrell is a really good resource to have by your side throughout your time with us, and beyond. Here’s the reference:
- Cottrell, S. (2019) The Study Skills Handbook. London: Red Globe Press.
Stella Cottrell has written another book on Critical Thinking Skills which might also be useful.
If you would like to get started with some reading about careers work the following book will give you a good overall picture of the theory and practice of careers work. This is a book by our Emeritus Professor Hazel Reid:
- Reid, H. (2015) Introduction to Career Counselling and Coaching. London: Sage.
It is useful to note that the University Bookshop offers 10% discount on most titles in print and have some price-beating book bundles. They also price match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.
International student success programme
International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.
Contact details
FAHE.CourseAdmin@canterbury.ac.uk