Professional Practice Programmes


Middlesex University offers the UK’s most comprehensive range of professional practice qualifications. Being work based, they are tailored to develop participant’s proficiency within their current post.


Sector specific programmes


These programmes can also be tailored to meet the needs of specific sectors and used as a means of topping up professional qualifications. The Marine Society is an example of a sector based partnership.


The Marine Society Supporting the education and welfare of seafarers and land based maritime professionals for over 225 years


After leaving school in the mid seventies, John McLouglin gained his seafarers qualifications and spent a decade working on deep sea cargo ships before containerisation revolutionised the industry. Moving into off shore oil and gas, John completed his Officer of the Watch Certificate. Undertaking the course led him to discover how much he enjoyed the personal challenge of study, as well as the career progression opportunities.


Coming across the Middlesex University BSc Work Based Learning Studies through the Marine Society in 2009, John found that work based learning offered both the flexibility and career focus that he required.


The bespoke nature of the course meant that John was able to design his work based learning project around his area of professional interest, health and safety training off shore. It has been instrumental in John being able to set up as an independent Health and Safety consultant. “As well as marine and offshore oil and gas, I now also work with renewable energy companies. I have the professional freedom to choose the work that interests me, and balance it with my family life,” he said.


On a practical level the professional benefits – in terms of the opportunities open to him – have been substantial. On a personal level John sums up the work based learning experience as “rewarding, enriching, empowering” and providing a real sense of “achievement”.


John McLoughlin, Health and Safety Consultant.


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