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Professional Development Scheme leading to the Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel and Development: from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Only valid for qualifications awarded between 2009 and 31 December 2013

    Completed qualification

  • You may be eligible for 90 credits at OU level PG

    Incomplete qualification

  • For Core Management (4 mandatory modules) you may be eligible for 35 credits at OU level PG
  • For Generalist Personnel and Development (4 modules) you may be eligible for 45 credits at OU level PG
  • For People Management and Development (double module) you may be eligible for 20 credits at OU level PG
  • For Applied Personnel and Development (2 mandatory modules) you may be eligible for 10 credit at OU level PG

Evidence you will need to provide

To confirm the exact amount of credit you can use you must make a formal application for credit transfer.  For more details on how credit from this previous study can be used in OU qualifications please see OU qualification.

With your application you should provide your original certificate (if the qualification was completed) together with a transcript of academic record, or equivalent, which should list all the subjects you successfully completed together with the marks or grades you achieved. Depending on the OU qualification that you wish to transfer your credit towards you may also need to provide syllabus information. When do I need to provide syllabus information?

Contact us

If you have any queries about applying for credit transfer please feel free to contact us using the link below.

Please try to include:

  • which qualification you completed
  • the organisation you completed it through
  • when you completed it
  • which OU qualification you would like to transfer to

Contact us about credit transfer.

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