Developing people
As an institution of higher education developing people is core to our mission, however we acknowledge that cost is a major barrier to quality education. FPD therefore actively strives to reduce the fi nancial burden of participants through scholarship programmes. Scholarships provided in 2018 were to the value of R9,385,016 bringing the total value of scholarships provided since 1998 to over R650,000,000.
FPD has developed an innovative model to ensure education is easily accessible. Courses are taken to where students live and work, thereby eliminating geographical barriers to education. Furthermore, our unique model of combining assessed self-study (using comprehensive study material) and facilitated contact sessions limits time away from work and therefore limits the disruption of service delivery. The FPD on-line learning platform off ers state of the art education support by video tuition.
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 FPD Business School has
a wide selection of management and business courses made up of
formally registered qualifi cations, international short courses, short
learning programmes and distance education. These management
courses cater for all levels of students from entry-level managers
to highly experienced executive management. Our teaching
methodologies are based on cutting edge educational processes and
include: facilitated contact sessions, case studies, group discussions,
structured and unstructured group work and action research.
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 off ers a wide range of educational courses
that incorporates technology enhanced learning and leadership.
Qualifi cations and courses designed to meet the need to educate in
the basic and higher education environment.
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 by earning some of their
yearly Continuous Education Units (CEU) points a requirement by the
Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).
The overall aim of FPD School of Nursing is to prepare nurses to meet
the dynamic health needs of the South African community through
the development of clinical knowledge and practical skills of nursing
students and practitioners. Through innovation, sound educational
principles and evidence based practice, FPD School of Nursing aims to
positively impact the health environment of South Africa. The School
is committed to professionalism, caring for the needs of people,
improving the healthcare quality and patient safety.
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). We off er international
vendor certifi cations, software licencing, and educator services
in the Information Technology space. We are a mobile Certiport
testing centre with the ability to remotely proctor international
vendor certifi cations anywhere in the world. FPD School of IT is also
accredited with the MICT SETA.
The school will develop specialisation in the fi eld of child forensics,
in particular, cases of violence against children. This specialisation
will translate into an improved response to cases of violence against
children, thereby upholding the rights of children to protection from
violence and abuse.
The School of Natural Sciences is a newly established school and
will off er short learning programmes in the various disciplines of the
natural sciences. These short learning programmes will be endorsed by
the South African Council for Natural Scientifi c Professions (SACNASP).
The school of Public Health is a newly established school and aim 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
beliefs and practices of our diverse African nations and communities.
The SHIPS Department focuses on developing
innovate models to transition young people from educational
programmes into the workplace through apprenticeship models.
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, high quality educational
programmes to position FPD as a leading provider of higher education
and training.
The FPD Programme Evaluation Department undertakes donor funded and
commercial programme evaluations. The Department has since inception
conducted evaluations for public and private organizations across
Southern Africa. The Department does not follow a “one size fits
all” approach to evaluations, but rather offer evaluations that can
be customised to its clients’ needs and expectations. The Department
has well-established national and international relationships with
various universities and organisations and collaborate with its
partners to conduct cost effective evaluations. As the Department
uses a Rand-based overhead structure, it is able to conduct
evaluations at a much lower cost than many international evaluators.
The Programme Evaluation Department became commercially viable
during 2015.