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Lifelong Learning. Empowering you.
Lifelong Learning.
Empowering you.

Whether you are upskilling, meeting CPD goals, or training your team:
This is where learning meets purpose.

Our short courses are practical, flexible, and designed for real-world impact.

Explore our programmes

September 2026

SLP Name Duration Mode Tuition Apply Description
AI & Law Tech Essentials 8 weeks Online R11,000.00 Apply Now This SLP equips participants with the essential knowledge to integrate AI into legal practice. It starts with an overview of AI technologies like predictive analytics and natural language processing, highlighting their potential to enhance legal services' efficiency and accuracy. Participants will learn to use AI tools for automating tasks such as legal research and document review, with case studies illustrating these technologies' practical benefits.
Dispensing for Health Professionals 1 day Face-to-face R2 500,00 Apply Now Evaluate the prescription and access the patient's history. Dispense the prescription and hand medication to the patient. Give advice and warnings to the patient regarding the safe use and storage of the medication. Maintain professional dispensing records. Manage the procurement and distribution of medicines.
Employee Benefits 5 weeks Online R9,000.00 Apply Now The programme contains all elements that are important to giving advice related to employee benefits.  The regulatory environment of financial services forms the introduction, the core of the programme lies in the Pension Funds Act (and related Regulations) and the Income Tax Act.  A global perspective on employee benefits trends is also included.
Financial Coaching 12 weeks Online R11 500,00 Apply Now The purpose of the short learning programme is to equip successful participants to apply ontological coaching principles in the specific context of coaching clients around their financial behaviour.
Financial Planning Case Studies 12 weeks Online R8 500,00 Apply Now This Short Learning Programme (SLP) will equip professionals with the essential practical skills for modern financial planning. By covering key areas like tax, estate, investments, and retirement planning, focusing on practical case studies ensures that participants can confidently create uniquely tailored financial plans for their clients. It also delves into behavioural finance, exploring how psychology impacts decision-making, allowing for more personalised client strategies. With a strong emphasis on legal and regulatory frameworks, this SLP ensures students are prepared to navigate financial complexities and deliver actionable, results-driven advice to help clients reach their goals.
Generative AI For Research 1 week Online R11,000.00 Apply Now This Short Learning Programme serves as an accessible, interdisciplinary entry point into contemporary AI-assisted research practices. It introduces participants to the foundational principles of machine learning, the capabilities and limitations of current GenAI systems, and the ethical considerations associated with their use. Through hands-on engagement with leading AI tools and modern computational research workflows, the programme empowers participants to integrate GenAI meaningfully into their scholarly and professional activities.
Introduction To Buiding Quantities 4 weeks Online R8,900.00 Apply Now Building Quantities aims to provide participants with introductory knowledge on developing and using building quantities relevant to the construction industry as applied in various project stages, including Documentation and Procurement, Construction and Close-out.
Medico-Legal Practice And Courtroom Preparedness For Healthcare Practitioners 2 weeks Online R11,000.00 Apply Now  The Short Learning Programme covers the legal and forensic dimensions of healthcare practice in domestic and sexual violence cases, with a focus on linking clinical practice and criminal justice processes. The programme introduces participants to the legal framework governing domestic violence and sexual offences, including reporting obligations, consent, confidentiality, and ethical duties. It then addresses fundamental principles of evidence relevant to healthcare practitioners, such as admissibility, chain of custody, and the legal status of medical records and forensic findings. 
Principles And Processes Of Mediation 8 weeks Online R14,500.00 Apply Now   This programme will empower participants with an understanding of the intricacies of conflict, the theory of dispute analysis and the practical skills to resolve disputes within various contexts including employment disputes, commercial disputes, consumer disputes, neighbourhood disputes, land claims disputes, family disputes, industrial relations disputes, disputes within religious communities, medico legal disputes, construction disputes, etc. 
Visual Acuity screening (Bloemfontein) 1 Day Face to Face R2 500,00 Apply Now   This SLP is intended to equip health and safety officers and health professionals employed in the health and safety, school health and other relevant settings to conduct visual acuity screening. 

October 2026

SLP Name Duration Mode Tuition Apply Description
Audiometry (Bloemfontein)3 DaysFace to Face R6,400.00 Apply Now The purpose of this programme is to equip persons responsible for screening for workplace-induced hearing impairments in an occupational setting with the necessary skills to perform and interpret an audiometric test, and to refer when needed.
Diabetic Foot Ulcers 8 weeks
Blended R7,000.00 Apply Now The purpose of the short learning programme is to enable health care practitioners to treat patients with diabetic foot ulcers comprehensively according to the available best practice principles to the benefit of the patients, their families, and health care providers.
Free-Living Nematode Identification For Ecologists And Taxonomists
3 weeks Online
R18,500.00 Apply Now The Free-Living Nematode Identification for Ecologists and Taxonomists Short Learning Programme equips participants with advanced identification techniques and practical knowledge relevant to ecological and taxonomic research.
Holistic Wound Management8 weeks
Blended R5,500.00 Apply Now
 The purpose of the short learning programme is to enable health care practitioners to treat patients with a wound comprehensively according to the available best practice principles to the benefit of the patients, their families, and health care providers.
Infection Prevention and Control
20 weeks
Face to Face R8,000.00 Apply Now
An integrated approach towards the theory and practice of Infection Prevention and Control to equip health care practitioners with integrated knowledge and skills to provide holistic high quality health care through appropriate implementation, evaluation and improvement of Infection Prevention and Control practices in different work places, clinical fields and the community.
Introduction To Building Economics 5 weeks Online R8,900.00 Apply NowBuilding Economics aims to provide participants with an introductory knowledge of foundational theories and economic concepts relevant to the construction industry. Some of these concepts include cost planning, cost comparisons and cost control.
Introduction To Construction Project Management 4 weeks Online R8,900.00 Apply Now
This SLP includes the introduction and contextualises the application of essential knowledge and skills required to understand project planning and control processes in the built environment. It also delves into the complexities of project management and how project planning and control processes, project team collaboration and the application of project management principles impact successful project outcomes.
Lower leg Ulcers 8 weeks Online R8,900.00 Apply Now
The purpose of the short learning programme is to enable health care practitioners to treat patients with lower leg ulcers comprehensively according to the available best practice principles to the benefit of the patients, their families, and health care providers.
Prevention of Pressure Injuries
6 weeks Blended R7,000.00 Apply Now Aetiology of pressure ulcers, risk factors contributing to pressure ulcers, assessment of a bedridden or chair-bound patient by using pressure ulcer risk assessment instruments, classifying systems for pressure ulcers, specific preventive measures, positioning of patients. 
Treatment of Complicated Wounds 8 weeks Blended R5,000.00 Apply Now The content addresses appropriate assessment techniques, emergency wound care when applicable, appropriate treatment options based on the assessment of the patient and classification of the wound bed, wound bed preparation, and rehabilitation of the patient.
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Lorraine Ries
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Lebohang Mahlabe
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