Personal and Professional Development Qualifications qualifications and training courses

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2019

The Personal and Professional Development Award allow you to play a key part in your own development and demonstrate important transferable skills. These awards can be gained at work or through a variety of structured activities.

The Award in Personal and Professional Development are ideal for those in higher education institutions, students on Level 4 programmes (or higher) within further education colleges, employees engaged in continuing professional development programmes, and volunteers involved in professionally-structured and supported programmes.

Available to deliver in the following:

England
Wales – please check QiW website for available funding
Scotland
Northern Ireland

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General Information

What Is Involved In Studying This Course?

The Award in Personal and Professional Development must be based on a real development project (either through paid work or a volunteering/placement opportunity). They require you to carry out a self-audit, set your goals, review your progress, and then complete an evaluation.

The Professional Development Award can be completed at work, on a work placement or by volunteering.

You'll need to complete a development plan and a log/diary of your progress, supplemented by evidence of skills/knowledge gained, and an evaluation report (2000-3000 words).

What Careers Can This Lead To?

Personal and Professional Development Awards you can show employers that you have essential transferable skills and knowledge to achieve a wide range of career or educational leadership opportunities.

You could also choose to go on to a City & Guilds qualification related to your role or sector, an ILM qualification or one of City & Guilds' Professional Recognition Awards, available at four levels:

Licentiateship (LCGI) comparable to Level 4
Affiliateship (AfCGI) comparable to Level 5
Graduateship (GCGI) comparable to Level 6
Membership (MCGI) comparable to Level 7.

What Is Involved With Delivering This Course?

To deliver the Award you will need suitably qualified/competent staff to support and assess learners completing the Professional Development Award.

You will also need suitable facilities to enable learners to complete their development project.

To find all the resource requirements, download the qualification handbook from the centre document section.

Please note these are unregulated qualifications (ie not on the National Qualifications Framework or Qualifications and Credit Framework) so they are not eligible for output-related funding within the learning and skills sector.

Level 4

The Personal and Professional Development Award is intended for learners on learning programmes at Level 4 or higher, or perhaps in a team leader or supervisory role at work.

In order to achieve a Professional Development Award it is necessary to:

carry out a self-audit
set goals
review progress on an on-going basis
carry out an evaluation following completion of the work placement or activity.

For more information, download the qualification handbook from the centre documents section.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

Personal and Professional Development Awards you can show employers that you have essential transferable skills and knowledge to achieve a wide range of career or educational leadership opportunities.

You could also choose to go on to a City & Guilds qualification related to your role or sector, an ILM qualification or one of City & Guilds' Professional Recognition Awards, available at four levels:

Licentiateship (LCGI) comparable to Level 4
Affiliateship (AfCGI) comparable to Level 5
Graduateship (GCGI) comparable to Level 6
Membership (MCGI) comparable to Level 7.

Level 4 Professional Development Award (3519-04)

Last Registration Date: 31 Dec 2025

Level 4 Professional Development Award

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Last Certification: 31/12/2027 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued
Qualification fees in the UK: TBC, please speak to your Account Manager for further information Our typical price is the one that is most often paid by a centre for a completed learner. Some prices are made up of multiple charging points so action like taking difference units or specialisms to complete and resitting assessments may mean the cost for some learners differs.

Here you can find all documents related to this suite of qualifications.

By clicking on the section headings below, you can access a variety of documents such as the qualification handbooks and assessment materials, Statements of Purpose, and recognition letters from industry and employers.

Some documents may be password protected. Passwords can be retrieved by logging in to Walled Garden and visiting the Administration section of the relevant qualification catalogue page.

Interested in delivering this qualification?

Find out more about how to become an approved City & Guilds centre or fill out our online customer application form.

Additional documents

3519 Need to know September 2004 v1 pdf 220 KB 14 Aug 2018

Personal and Professional Development Qualifications (3519)