One evening you walk into your kid’s bedroom and ask how the homework is going. In one hand she holds a smart phone on which she is managing multiple Facebook conversations. It also buzzes quietly when a text or Snapchat message comes through. She is viewing a YouTube video on her tablet. And a sitcom […]

Smart Insights, Accredited CPD Standards Provider (No. 50052) has given an overview of the top 10 most in demand digital marketing skills during 2016. Dr Dave Chaffey, CEO and Co-founder of Smart Insights says how you can focus your efforts on acquiring these skills. The top 10 most in demand digital marketing skills LinkedIn’s 2016 review of […]

“Just like paths in a forest, you lose the connections you don’t use.” Neuroscientist and Author, David Eaglman Here at the CPD Standards Office, we have been increasingly interested in neuroscience and behaviour change and started to focus some of our research on CPD in this area. Over the past decade, neuroscience and behaviour change […]

The CPD Standards Office (CPDSO) accredited providers, Avado Learning and Rentokil Initial both won gold at the Training Journal Awards 2016. But what does it take for a training provider to achieve such an accolade? The CPD Standards investigates. As an ongoing supporter of the Training Journal Awards, the CPDSO sponsored the Best Training Partnership […]

The CPD Standards Office has been busy this year presenting at its quarterly member events and a wide selection of industry conferences. We have moved offices, grown our team and continue pursue research on developments in the CPD arena. Reflecting back over 2016, it has been a turbulent year for business. The Brexit campaign and […]

1600 professional bodies in the UK alone.  Each has its own membership with varying membership and CPD requirements. 5,000,000 individuals undergoing CPD or in CPD Schemes in the UK. Each professional undergoing CPD in the UK will average 15 to 20 hours of CPD every year This all means that there are over 12,000,000 days of CPD […]