New UK CIPD ´Evening´ courses at Bradfield Group 10-May-12

Bradfield Group understands that there are many delegates wishing to become CIPD qualified who face difficulties in getting time off work to study. Because of this, Bradfield is offering the CHRP in London as an ´evening´ course in addition to its usual day programmes commencing in September 2012.

The evening course will consist of 18 sessions and will run Mondays and Wednesdays from 6pm to 9.30pm at the Bradfield Head Office in Tower Hill, London. Click here for dates and more details

Bradfield have already run three successful evening courses in other locations and these have proved extremely popular. "Our Dubai evening programme is oversubscribed this year" says Caroline Griffiths, Managing Director at Bradfield, "We are delighted that this delivery mode has proved so popular. We have listened to our customers and responded by providing timings to suit their needs. It´s been a real success story".

There is a ´Special Offer´ offer on our Bradfield UK evening course at present. Register before 1st June 2012 and receive a 10% discount off the certificate course. For more information on UK courses you can email enquiries@bradfield.co.uk or call the office on 020 7977 9208.

Success at Careers UAE 2012 23-Mar-12

Bradfield group is yet again delighted that Careers UAE 2012 was a huge success. Careers UAE was opened by HH Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and is one of the most significant events of its kind in Dubai and Bradfield group is honoured to have been an exhibitor. A large assortment of private and public organisations participated this year, including companies in banking, oil and gas, hospitality, retail, telecommunications, transport, and government.

Exhibiting at the fair allowed Bradfield to effectively raise awareness of CIPD courses in Dubai, as well as meet face to face with prospective students wishing to find out more about what CIPD is and what the Bradfield courses entail. "This year was excellent; there was so much enthusiasm from delegates. We are already working alongside some of the top companies that were exhibiting at the fair so it was good to get feedback from them on how they are finding our courses" says Business Development Executive, Nargis Begum "many have expressed a lot of interest in our tailored in-house programmes as there are multiple HR delegates in a company looking to become CIPD qualified".

Bradfield group would like to thank everyone who visited the stand. If you have any questions on our CIPD courses please do not hesitate to email us on enquiries@bradfield.co.uk or call our office on +971 4 4461238.

Bradfield Group exhibiting at Careers UAE 28-Feb-12

For the fourth consecutive year Bradfield Group is exhibiting at Careers UAE. This is the most established leading recruitment, education and training event that is exclusively for UAE Nationals.

The Careers UAE is taking place on 5-7 March 2012 at the Dubai International Conventions and Exhibition Centre. Come along to Hall 6, Stand 109 to talk to the Bradfield team and find out all about our CIPD courses. Bradfield Group is offering the Certificate in HR Practice, Certificate in L&D Practice and the Certificate in HR Management in various locations in the UAE all throughout this year.

Whether you have a question on our in-house programmes, your career progression or even instalment plans for self funded delegates, our team of HR and L&D professionals will be happy to answer any queries that you may have so feel free to visit the stand. We also specialise in HR consultancy and leadership and management training.

You can find us at Hall 6, Stand 109 for more information!

Bradfield´s plans for 2012 01-Feb-12

It´s nearly a month into the New Year and Bradfield Group has already shown proof that 2012 is going to be an exciting year by launching its Intermediate CIPD programme in both the Gulf and the UK. It has also kick-started the year by announcing the restart of CIPD programmes in Bahrain.

"This year is already shaping up to be a memorable one", says L&D Manager Joseph Grech. "We ended 2011 with a very successful trainers´l meeting where we updated all our trainers on the Intermediate Qualifications that we have just started offering. This session also proved to be an excellent opportunity for us to review the quality of our marking and feedback that we provide to students. We believe that we are developing professionals, ensuring that they do not only pass the CIPD qualification but, more importantly, take the learning back to the workplace where they can make a significant impact. I am looking forward to a 2012 where Bradfield continues to offer high quality, up-to-date and effective training in all our regions."

Despite the economic recession Bradfield Group promises to make this one of its best years yet, with plans to grow its HR Outsourcing capability by offering its HR services to many more companies. It will also launch the Bradfield Network in April 2012, a portal of HR information, which will make the Bradfield website a primary resource for HR expertise.

As well as CIPD training, this year Bradfield Group is looking to hold ILM Endorsed Training, so watch this space.

Bradfield launches Intermediate Level CIPD courses in Dubai and Peterborough 23-Jan-12

Bradfield Group is pleased to announce that it is will be running the brand new CIPD Certificate/Diploma in HR Management (Level 5) both in Dubai and Peterborough this New Year and with London and Doha to follow in Spring 2012. This new level of qualification is aimed at those working in Human Resource at managerial level, or for those working in a HR support role and want to progress their career by developing their knowledge and skills at a higher level. In addition it is suitable for those who have completed the CIPD´s foundation level qualification (CHRP or CPP).

Bradfield´s L&D Consultant, Patrick Mullarkey believes that "The qualifications will help students to understand and evaluate the effectiveness of HR models and practices, along with increasing their understanding of the external business environment and how this affects their organisations and HR functions".

As well as Bradfield already being the largest provider of CIPD programmes based on locations, Bradfield Group is now also the first provider of the CIPD qualification at Intermediate level in the UAE. "We have put in a lot of hard work into getting the Intermediate level qualification started and we have no doubt that it will be a success" says Joseph Grech, L&D Manager at Bradfield.

The first programme was successfully launched in Dubai on 22nd January 2012 and the Peterborough Intermediate programme is ready to start on 24th January 2012. If you would like more information on our next intake in any of our regions please email enquiries@bradfield.co.uk.

Corporate Business Development Executive 11-Nov-11

The role of the Corporate BDE is to create and sell new business to corporate clients and to account manage existing corporate clients in the UK and Gulf Region.

Click here for further details

Recession Buster on our Cambridge and Peterborough courses 20-Jul-11

Bradfield are pleased to announce an amazing Recession Buster on our Cambridge and Peterborough courses. "We are aware that the recession has hit us all and nowhere harder than outside of London," says Simon Robins, Marketing Manager. "We are offering CIPD accredited Certificate courses in Human Resource Practice or Learning and Development Practice for only £995 plus VAT! Beat that!"

"This is a great offer for anyone who is looking to gain a CHRP or CLDP qualification in the Cambridgeshire area", says Bradfield´s Global Sales Manager, Scott Russell.

But hurry as this is a special discount for our CHRP and CLDP September courses in Cambridge and Peterborough and places are selling fast. Call our enquiry team now on 020 7977 9208 to book now or email them enquiries@bradfield.co.uk for more information on this great offer!

CIPD Centres Conference - Keele 2011 28-Jun-11

The Bradfield Group attended the CIPD Annual Centre's Conference in Keele last week, with Joseph Grech, L&D Manager at Bradfield, being an invited speaker on the panel "Delivering the CIPD's Qualifications Internationally".

This year's conference focused on the collective roles that accredited centres have in building the current and future capability of the HR profession. With sessions from the likes of Stephanie Bird, Director of HR Capability, CIPD; Perry Timms, The Big Lottery Fund; and Dr Julie Beardwell Chief Moderator, Standards, CIPD, the conference covered a variety of areas, with a range of providers from both the private and higher education centre in attendance.

Staged over three days at Keel University, there were sessions dealing with areas such as assessment, quality assurance and learning tools. There was noticeable attention on social media in the case of the later, speakers focusing its uses to expand learning and development opportunities for students and organisations alike.

"In between sessions there were networking opportunities for speakers and attendees alike, which lead to some passionate debate about some of the new measures that have been introduced by the CIPD since the last conference, with a lot of conversations based on how the CIPD HR Profession Map can be applied to get the most benefits for practitioners at all levels of the industry" says Patrick Mullarkey, Learning & Development Consultant.

During the international session chaired by Debbie John, Head of Qualifications at the CIPD, Joseph Grech helped the panel provide an overview of the Bradfield Group's wealth of experience of providing CIPD courses overseas and some of the issues to consider when providing qualifications to students. The session allowed an opportunity for questions from the audience, which then stimulated ideas as to best practice and some of the pitfalls to be aware of, drawing a lot from Bradfield's experience of providing courses in the Gulf region.

In all the conference was highly informative with a variety of benefits and insights provided, with the international session receiving very positive feedback from the panel and attendees alike.

Bradfield host CIPD Seminar in Dubai on 15th June 2011 01-Jun-11

Join Bradfield on the 15th June for a seminar, giving you the opportunity to explore the new CIPD Foundation and Intermediate Qualifications. "You will be able to get an overview of the CIPD membership requirements together with the chance to ask one of our highly qualified CIPD trainers any questions you might have about the courses that we offer. We are also offering a discount of 1500AED for anyone who attends the event and then books a place on our CHRP qualification", says Joseph Grech, Learning & Development Manager. "During this seminar you will also be able to take part in a taster session for the Foundation Certificate in Human Resource Practice, allowing you to see what is involved when you take the certificate with Bradfield".

This is an opportunity not to miss, whether you wish to become fully qualified or simply if you wish to further your understanding in a specific HR discipline. Come and explore where your HR career could take you thanks to the Bradfield Group. For more information or to book your place, please contact our events team on +9714 3756852 or events@bradfield.co.uk

New training room for our CIPD qualifications and ILM endorsed courses 18-Apr-11

"Not only does our new office provide a contemporary look but also the space for a new training room for our CIPD qualifications and ILM endorsed courses." says Joseph Grech, Learning & Development Manager. "This will allow us to run our current London based CHRP and CLDP programmes at Ibex House, giving us the opportunity to meet more of our students and respond to any questions they have in person. In addition to this, our training facility will allow us to increase our short course capability, which ranges from Leadership Development and Management training, soft skills such as Assertiveness or Communication skills through to more technical HR programmes such as Recruitment Interviewing or Train the Trainer, or legally orientated courses such as Employment Law, Managing Diversity or Performance Management."

Bradfield Group has moved offices 25-Mar-11

Bradfield Group has moved home! As we are offering more CIPD courses than ever before, along with increasing our HR consultancy portfolio we had simply run out of space for our expanding team. "The new office at Ibex House in Minories London EC3, has enough space for our continued growth, which will allow us to offer even more products and services in the near future" says Bradfield's Marketing Manager, Simon Robins. "The new look really reflects our modern and professional brand."

Bradfield exhibits at Careers UAE 21-Mar-11

Bradfield are exhibiting at Careers UAE for the third year running. This is the most established leading recruitment, education and training event exclusively for UAE Nationals and takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre 21-23 March 2011.

Visitors to our stand can discuss with our team of experts our CIPD qualifications such as the CHRP (Certificate in Human Resource Practice), CLDP (Certificate in Learning and Development) as well as the Intermediate CIPD qualifications which we will be offering from September 2011.

Bradfield also offers leadership and management courses and HR consultancy.

Visit us at stand number S3A-9 in Hall SS3 to find out more!

Senior Learning and Development Consultant - London 02-Mar-11

To be a main point of contact for Bradfield Group in Dubai and deliver effective training interventions in the Middle East and the UK.

This position has now been filled.

Learning and Development Consultant - London Office 02-Mar-11

To be responsible for the development and maintenance of all learning materials and to deliver effective training sessions on HR and L&D.

This position has now been filled.

Sales Executive / Admin - Dubai Office 21-Feb-11

Reporting to the Office based team leader, the role of the Sales Executive / Admin is to assist selling the Bradfield range of products in the Gulf region. They are also required to manage and develop our database of Gulf client contacts and assist with any administrative tasks that are required locally and by Head Office in London.

This position has now been filled.

CIPD registration can now be completed online! 15-Dec-10

In the past students had to complete their CIPD registration form in hard copy and then send it by post to be processed, which was particularly problematic for overseas students. We are glad to tell you that CIPD have now implemented an on-line CIPD Student Registration Page.

- Bradfield Group will provide you with your CIPD registration key

- No more wasting time to fill application form manually!

- 24-hour CIPD support helpline is available

- Secure payment online via credit card or debit card

- Very efficient and easy to use

Bradfield´s first student to achieve Post Graduate CIPD success 03-Dec-10

Jane Moss has just received her Post Graduate Certificate in HR from the CIPD. She is our first student to obtain a qualification at this level with Bradfield. "We are so pleased for Jane" said Caroline Griffiths, Managing Director of Bradfield Group. These qualifications are at Level 7 and represent about half of the PDS qualification.

Naturally Jane is also delighted. Of her learning experience she said "Studying for a CIPD qualification with Bradfield meant that I could study flexibly around my job and home life but also have tutor support and attend knowledge sessions locally. I received the latest copies of the CIPD materials and study books to assist me through the units. With support and encouragement from my tutor, I developed the skill of writing in an academic manner whilst gaining confidence in my ever growing knowledge. It was hard work returning to study but the achievement is both satisfying and rewarding".

Bradfield prepares to run top up programme from old Certificate in Personnel Practice 12-Nov-10

Bradfield is very proud to have trained students to achieve the CIPD´s Certificate in Personnel Practice since 1992. We have devised a special programme for those students interested in acquiring the new Diploma in HR Practice by topping up from their old Certificate In Personnel Practice. "All they need to do is attend a week´s programme with us covering Supporting Change and some additional Core Units" says Nargis Begum, Special Projects Officer. Interested students can find out dates for their region by contacting our Special Projects Team on +44 207 977 9208 or +971 44234819.

Bradfield runs first Diploma Programme in London 11-Nov-10

Bradfield Group is running Units which lead to the CIPD´s Diploma in HR for the first time this week. "Our students complete their learning for the Certificate in HR before going on to study the Units leading to the Diploma" says Caroline Griffiths, Managing Director. "Bradfield is one of the few CIPD providers offering the Diploma. The students are being taught by Linda Baird, our Quality and Training Manager and Joseph Grech our Learning and Development Consultant" says Caroline, "so they are getting some excellent tuition by the very people who designed the materials".

Bradfield attends Najah Abu Dhabi Careers Exhibition 27-Oct-10

Bradfield had a successful time at the Abu Dhabi Najah Education, Training and Careers Exhibition held at Adnec on 19th, 20th and 21st October, where we met a number of our current students and many, many potential new ones.

"There was a tremendous amount of interest in our new CIPD Certificate in HR Practice (CHRP) Programmes and our CIPD Certificate in Learning and Development (CLDP) Programmes" said Caroline Griffiths, Managing Director of the Bradfield Group.

"We took a team of six Bradfield staff to man the stand and we were busy throughout the three day event" says Simon Robins, Marketing Manager.

Equality Act Implemented Today 01-Oct-10

Today sees the implementation of the majority of the employment provisions in the Equality Act 2010 creating a new equality landscape for anti-discrimination legislation in Great Britain.

The Act has two main purposes: (i) to harmonise discrimination law, and (ii) to strengthen the law to support progress on equality. It brings together and re-states all previous anti-discrimination and harassment legislation, together with equal pay law, harmonising previous provisions to give a single approach where appropriate, but also introducing some changes and additions to previous law.

Join the Bradfield Network to find out more.

CIPD Professional Standards Conference By Linda Baird 01-Aug-10

The conference was designed around building current and future capability for the HR Profession. It was designed to give insight into the latest thinking of what tomorrow's workplace might look like and provide delegates with ideas of how they can drive the agenda forward for the future.

As Joseph and I were two new recruits to Bradfield we booked ourselves back to back on courses that we believed we could add real value to you, our customers. We had dreams and visions of applying our new learning when designing, implementing and improving the quality of training offered at Bradfield. We also wanted to be key in bringing innovation and value to you all. With such high hopes and dreams, what did we learn?

Well, the list of speakers was impressive. With the changes to the new qualifications we attended the majority of sessions on the changes for centres, providers and customers.

Jackie Orme, Chief Executive of the CIPD and Stephanie Bird, Director of HR Capability, CIPD talked about the work the CIPD have undertaken in collaboration with centres since last year's conference, how the qualifications and membership changed, what their priorities are for the year ahead. This was a good overview at the start of a fully packed conference.

The most impressive session was that on blended learning and how training delivery has changed from use of the flipchart and overhead projector to embrace the use of IT. So watch this space, there may be podcasts, webinars and other technology based training coming your way as part of our strategy for training delivery.

My HR Map is a new online self-assessment tool for members, based on the CIPD HR Profession Map. In this interactive session we were shown how to use My HR Map to assess capability against the relevant activities, knowledge and behaviours. It was interesting to note that the HR Profession Map is not in full operation yet and we were able to put forward recommendations for development. This was a useful session as Joseph and I posed many questions and solutions for development which were highly welcomed. We are watching this space...

The CIPD is embracing more flexible assessment strategies for the new qualifications, including using a mixture of competency assessment and traditional taught elements. In a session, Professor Garnett spoke about the use of work-based learning as a way of offering greater flexibility for today's learners without the loss of academic rigour. This was an interesting session as it reflected on learning in the workplace as being important, not new and more about engaging with learning in the workplace.

Wanting to have a say in what the CIPD are planning, Joseph and I were keen to share our thoughts, inspirations and visions so at the session Journey of Transformation for Membership and What the Future Holds in terms of New Developments and Initiatives, we had front row seats.

In the free time that we had, we managed to fit in networking as well. It really was a delight to meet CIPD personnel as well as our passionate HR and training colleagues.

In all, the conference was extremely valuable and left us feeling very motivated to use our creativity in the months ahead to make the student experience as valuable as we possibly can.

Bradfield has had a makeover! 11-Jun-10

As you can see, Bradfield has had a makeover! Not only have we gone through a rebranding process to update our logo but we have also redesigned our whole website. Working with Four Communications, a media company who were able to work on both our brand and website to give us the look and feel you see today. The new colour system, while looking great also allows you to locate the area you require with ease as each have a unique colour.

Managing Director Caroline is very pleased with the results. "I am delighted with our new 'look and feel'. Our website gives us a modern but professional look which will be attractive to both prospective consultancy clients and students".

New Staff 03-May-10

Bradfield Group is very pleased to welcome two new members of staff based at our head office in London. They joined us in May and both have pivotal roles in helping to maintain Bradfield's reputation as a primary resource for HR expertise.

Linda Baird has taken on the role of Quality and Training Manager; her day to day role will be to focus on ensuring the quality and success of all our training and consultancy. Over the past 8 years, Linda has worked for corporate companies predominately in Quality, HR, and L&D positions at a senior level, with accountability to CEOs and Managing Directors and hope to use this experience with the roll out of the new look CIPD courses. "I am thoroughly looking forward to working with our range of partners, students and consultants to ensure that we continue to build on the high quality services already offered. My goal is to maintain the long term success of The Bradfield Group as the most experienced, customer focused solution provider in the world and make it an even better place for everyone who deals with us. Thanks for the kind welcomes to date, I look forward to meeting you all".

Joseph Grech joins us with a strong training background and is our new Learning and Development Consultant. "I am really excited about joining a vibrant company like Bradfield! It is extremely rewarding knowing that I am working for the leading international CIPD provider and am already working hard to make our courses even better. Everyone has been very welcoming - it feels great to be part of this community!"