About Developing People


Developing people

FPD prides itself on being one of the few private higher educational institutions that fully engages in the three scholarships of higher education, namely: teaching and learning, research and community engagement. These areas of academic scholarship provide the three focus areas of our work. FPD provides a comprehensive curriculum of courses in clinical management and professional skills development that are customised to the needs of students in sectors such as: management, health, education and information technology. Educational products are presented through formal qualifications, postgraduate qualifications, short courses, in-house courses and conferences.

We acknowledge that cost is a major barrier to quality education. FPD therefore actively strives to reduce the financial burden of participants through scholarship programmes. During 2019 - 2020, educational grants and sponsorships to the value of R70 552 046 million were received. The total monetary value of scholarships awarded since 1998 is R721 506 776 million.



Departments



Aligned to FPD’s vision of building a better society through education and capacity development, the FPD Business School focuses on developing transformational leaders. The school boasts an array of management and leadership programmes ranging from short learning programmes, formal qualifications and international management programmes ...

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The School of Education strives to enhance the professional development of educators across the educational spectrum. From early childhood care and education to postgraduate studies, the FPD School of Education offers a wide range of educational courses that incorporates technology enhanced learning ...

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The FPD School of Health Sciences has been the leader in training healthcare professionals for more than 20 years and takes pride in being recognised as the pinnacle product leader and innovator in the healthcare industry. Our research has shown that 54% of all doctors have studied with FPD and continue to do so ...

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The Nursing Education Unit’s vision is to be recognized as a leader in innovative nursing training and education to the dynamic and diverse health needs of the population and the nursing profession. The Nursing Education Unit’s aim to develop well-educated and competent nurses and non-professionals in the healthcare environment ...

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The FPD School of Information Technology is an active Microsoft Imagine Academy and a Microsoft Global Training Partner. Our speciality is distance/remote, self-paced eLearning via our Azure hosted Learner Management System (LMS). The FPD School of Information Technology offers international vendor certifications, software licencing ...

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The School of Natural Sciences is a newly established school and offers short courses in Research Methodology and in the various disciplines of the natural sciences such as Postgraduate Research Supervision and Scientific Peer Review. These short learning programmes will be endorsed by the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions ...

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The school of Public Health is a newly established school and have enrolled the second cohort in September 2021. The aim of the school is to produce public health professionals that are able to adapt and localise international public health policies with the aim of promoting the population health while taking into consideration the good cultural ...


The SHIPS Department focuses on developing innovative transformation models to transition young people from educational programmes into the workplace through skills development.

The SHIPS Department provides learnership opportunities to learners through training and placement in specific career path opportunities. The FPD SHIPS Department offers several service-learning opportunities to allow participants to gain work-based experience. These programmes accommodate students at various qualification levels; ranging from programmes ...

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The Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) is an organisation that beliefs in developing people through various endeavours. Conferencing and Event management is an aspect of FPD that has grown over 21 years to make FPD one of the few expert event organisers in South Africa ...

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The Education Innovation Department (EID) is a support department and delivers a comprehensive, coordinated and integrated academic development service to the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD). EID has the vision to create innovative, evidence based high quality educational ...

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The FPD Programme Evaluation Unit is responsible for designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation projects of internal and external donor-funded and commercial programmes. Since its inception in 2015 the Unit has conducted evaluation projects for public and private organisations ...

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