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AUA Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice
You are a professional with a rewarding career, and the PG Cert in Professional Practice appeals to managers and administrators right across the spectrum of UK higher education. It is validated by the Open University. If you wish to extend your understanding of the sector in which you work, as well as increase your professional abilities and career prospects, then this PG Cert is ideal for you. You’ll enjoy a highly flexible programme allowing you to balance professional development with the rigour of academic enquiry. You will also be allocated a Mentor to help you along every step of the way. The programme leads ultimately to a level 7 postgraduate professional qualification.

The quest for knowledge is good in itself and helps the country thrive – Will Hutton
A culture of scholarship, the role of the teacher as teacher and the quest to know for the sake of knowing are to be replaced by a culture of consumer utility in which student choice and business need are kings. This is to be forced on universities by creating a new artificial market for student places and by research funding to be allocated less by what is intellectually compelling than what is commercially, and quickly, exploitable.”