CPD College announces 10 brand new summer courses for primary teachers which brings the number of courses to choose from to 22. Digital Age Classroom and The Internet as an Educational Tool will be complimenting our popular technology course - Interactive Whiteboards and Creating Powerpoint Lessons for the Classroom. The Jolly Phonic Course has been completely re-designed to include many new video and audio resources. The full list of courses will be published shortly pending DES approval.

Jolly Phonics International Course launched. CPD College is proud to announce the launch of the Jolly Phonics On-Line Training Courses developped in partnership with Jolly Learning in the UK. This self-paced on-line course examines the processes children go through when learning to read and write and shows how phonic knowledge is integral to these processes. Through this course, participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the synthetic-phonics approach and will learn how best to apply this knowledge in the classroom. The highly interactive course is available in 3 versions - American English, British English and Ireland version.

DSBA (Dublin Solicitors Bar Association) on-line CPD Courses available from November 2009:Debt Collection, Road Traffic Offences & Revisiting Orders in Family Law. Also, one new course, Accounting Principles for Non-accountants has been added to the already comprehensive management and professional development courses offering.

5 new courses have been developed by CPD College and made available to primary teachers this summer. Creating PowerPoint Lessons for the Classroom, Poetry & Story, Geography, History and Physical Education complement this year's offering which now counts 12 engaging courses to choose from.

CPD College is a leading Irish provider of on-line Continuing Professional Development courses and is proud to be launching a series of six courses for Solicitors. Get three hours of CPD without leaving the comfort of your office or your home PC. Watch the demo here or read-on. Choose from one of our 6 engaging on-line courses. Each of our courses is designed by an expert in the relevant topic area. You can choose either a law course or a management and professional development course – remember you must do at least 3 hours of your CPD in this latter category.

Due to popular demand, we have decided to re-open two of our on-line courses in November for one month only - 20 hours to be completed at your pace between November 1st and 31st. Jolly Phonics and Interactive Whiteboards are both fantastic pedagogical tools that are currently revolutionising 21st century teaching. Don't be left behind - enrol now to avoid disappointment as places are limited.

Only one month has gone by since the launch of this year's series of DES approved EPV on-line summer courses and the take-up has been phenomenal. The Jolly Phonics course is leading the way, representing over 60% of the total enrolments.

Jolly Phonics was created by a UK primary teacher, Sue Lloyd, in 1977, after the realisation that the whole language approach used in her classroom was not reaching a small group of children. As part of an experiment, these children were taught structured blending of words. They were taught to listen carefully to the sounds in the words, identify the sounds and relate them to the letters. As a result, these students who were previously demonstrating difficulty in reading and writing made significant progress. After many years of research, Lloyd was encouraged to compile 'The Phonics Handbook', which was published in 1992. It was immediately embraced by teachers worldwide.

Of course CPD College offers other EPV courses that spread right across the curriculum.

CPD College offers on-line alternative to Building Energy Rating (BER) Assessor Course. The BER Assessor Course is aimed at construction & property professionals who wish to gain the required qualification to operate as a BER Assessor but who do not have the time to attend a traditional classroom-based course. Upon successful completion, the student can register as a BER Assessor with SEI (Sustainable Energy Ireland) and carry out BER Assessments for submission to SEI and publication on the BER Register.