Bespoke Study Programmes
Flexible learning solutions
Work-based learning combines academic study with on-the-job experience. We can help create customised training programmes to match your specific business needs, providing the flexibility and motivation for your workforce to sharpen their skills. Current clients include ClydeUnion, Howden, Keppie Design, The Institution of Railway Operators, North and South Lanarkshire Councils and Strathclyde Police Training College.
Our blended-learning approach to education can help your business to develop and sustain a highly professional workforce. With you, we can design a program for transferring skills and knowledge internally, allowing you to build the leadership capacity of your staff, which we achieved on a large scale nursing and midwifery education programme in Kosovo.
GCU's Moffat Centre offers the only MSc International Tourism Enterprise in Scotland through a flexible full-time one year study or part-time two years, plus dissertation. The course has been created to maximise opportunities and specialise in specific areas of enterprise from Tourism, Hospitality, Heritage or Events.
Contact the Applied Knowledge Exchange now to find out how we can build a flexible, bespoke programme of study for you or your staff.
Clients
Howden Academy
Howden, the engineering company headquartered in Scotland, partnered with Glasgow Caledonian University to create Howden Academy in 2008.
Howden Academy is an international postgraduate programme based at the University to deliver specialist operational training to hundreds of Howden’s engineering graduates from 16 countries over a number of years.
Designed by Howden engineers to share their years of specialist operational engineering knowledge and experience with a new generation of engineers, the academy uses the teaching expertise of the School of Engineering and Computing and world-class learning facilities at Glasgow Caledonian University to package and deliver job-specific training modules.
Howden Academy won a Glasgow Business Award for Excellence in Skills and Learning at the Glasgow Business Awards. Howden also picked up the Bank of Scotland Award for Most Outstanding Business and the Glasgow Business Award for Best Performing Business (over 25 employees).
ClydeUnion
Glasgow-based global manufacturer CLYDEUNION joined forces with Glasgow Caledonian University to launch CLYDEUNION Academy, a training centre that will support the manufacturer’s plans for growth and offer employees an opportunity to gain fully accredited qualifications while they work. 
The academy offers high-quality training for employees, including a bespoke accredited MSc in Leadership and Management for the Manufacturing Sector specifically designed by Glasgow Caledonian University’s Scottish Centre for Work Based Learning to help the company achieve its strategic business objectives and support its plans for rapid international growth.
Institution of Railway Operators
Glasgow Caledonian University also partners with the Institution of Railway Operators to offer an accredited distance learning professional development programme related to railway operational management.
Scotland's Local Authorities
The University has also developed a study programme for Leadership and Management of Public Services. It aims to integrate knowledge and skills generated by an organisation’s own professionals with university-based theory and good practice in relation to leadership. The Scottish Centre for Work Based Learning has been running this programme for local authority clients including North and South Lanarkshire Councils. North Ayrshire Council is also upskilling managers through shorter training modules from the Leadership and Management programmes.
Take a look at our Work-based Learning case study
Client links
www.clydeunion.com/engineers-pump-their-education
www.railwayoperators.org/LearningandDevelopment/Educationprogramme.aspx
