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Postgraduate Diploma (PGD)

If you are looking to take the next step in your assessment career, develop your knowledge of good practice or simply extend your understanding of the latest developments in assessment, then the CIEA Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Assessment could be for you.

Developed by practitioners and awarded by Edexcel, this unique qualification is designed for teachers, lecturers, senior examiners, markers, and those who wish to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of good assessment practice that checks learners' progress, records and recognises standards of achievement in public examinations and summarises learners' knowledge and understanding.

Benefits of the course:

Study for an approved qualification
Learn at your own pace
Apply your learning directly to your role
Study flexibly for the whole qualification or a number of individual units
Assessments are based on your own workplace
Learn about the latest developments in assessment
Develop your career in assessment practice
Transfer to a Masters' course in Educational Assessment with a leading university
Progress to the Chartered Educational Assessor course

For more details please read the publication relevant to your career:

Course fees (2010/11)

Diploma fee - £2,000
Per Unit - £550

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