What is Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD)?  

This new way of engaging in staff development offers you a chance to work towards a higher qualification. It offers benefits, impact and future possibilities for you and the profession. Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD) is supported by all the East Midlands LEAs and the Training and Development Agency. It gives teachers a ladder for development to: 

Post-graduate Certificate (60 M level credits)  Post-graduate Diploma (120 M level credits)  Masters (MA or MSc) (180 M level credits)  Doctorate (Ed.D or Ph.D) (540 D level credits)

It offers you flexible ways to gain some or all of these levels at your own speed and in topics of importance to you and your school.

Supporting school improvement plans

All universities within this partnership offer flexible courses that can be tailored to focus on selected priorities from schools' improvement plans. This builds significant capacity for the school and provides research support for teachers involved.