The Personal Development Unit implies the professional and personal growth in knowledge and skills. It embraces a whole range of practical and transferable skills that can be applied within higher vocational education and the workplace.
This unit examines a range of skills that are deemed necessary to aid learners through various scenarios, which skills are not necessarily implicit within the content of more theoretical or academically oriented units of the Foundation programme. Learners will be able to improve their own learning, be involved with health and safety issues, social and civic competences, entrepreneurship and cultural awareness and expression.
The rationale behind this unit is to enable learners to have exposure to softer skills that are critical in the workplace and in higher vocational education. This unit attempts to encapsulate a range of key and common skills and deliver this information in a dynamic learning environment.