AdvDip(CPD) Advanced Coaching and Mentoring for Current Practice (HE7)
Course Overview
The Advanced Diploma (CPD) in Coaching and Mentoring for Current Practice is a Level 7, one-trimester programme designed for education professionals seeking to enhance their coaching and mentoring expertise. Delivered through a blended learning model—70% face-to-face and 30% online—the course explores key areas such as coaching strategies, mentoring relationships, ethical practice, and the impact of coaching on organisational culture.Students engage in practical, reflective learning through portfolio-based assessments, including recorded sessions, presentations, and critical evaluations. This programme supports the development of advanced interpersonal, analytical, and leadership skills, empowering participants to implement effective coaching and mentoring practices that drive professional growth and improve educational outcomes.
Highlights
- Our students are drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds. Sharing the individual and unique educational insights and perspectives of your peers helps to enrich your learning experience.
- We promote research and critical enquiry, helping you learn to make sound, evidence-based, independent judgements.
- This course is part of a suite of professional development courses covering contemporary issues and developments in education that focus on equipping you with advanced skills and knowledge to help your career progression.
Key Features
- This course allows you to gain career-enhancing skills without committing yourself to an entire postgraduate degree.
- Face-to-face sessions and one-to-one support are offered by our team of highly experienced, enthusiastic and dedicated experts.
- Our academic team is actively involved in educational research, helping you to explore issues from a robust research-informed knowledge base.
- Our well-stocked library offers a comprehensive selection of relevant texts and access to an extensive online database of multimedia sources, including eJournals, podcasts, vodcasts and eBooks.
Entry Requirements
- Normally, you'll have successfully completed an honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject and have appropriate work experience.
- We're more than happy to have an informal chat with you about this course, either over the phone or in person. If you wish to meet in person, please contact the Programme Leader to arrange a mutually convenient time. (While we reserve the right to interview it's not our usual practice for this course.)
- If English isn’t your first language, you’ll also need IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications – please visit our English Language Requirements web page for more details.
Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.
Career Opportunities
Recipients of the Advanced Diploma (CPD) in Coaching and Mentoring for Current Practice are well-placed to progress into roles such as instructional coach, mentoring lead, or professional development coordinator within educational settings.
The course equips professionals with advanced coaching techniques, reflective practice, and strategic implementation skills, making them valuable contributors to staff development and organisational improvement. It also provides a strong foundation for further academic progression, including full master’s-level study or leadership qualifications, and opens opportunities in consultancy, training, and educational leadership.
Fees & Funding
Home/EU Fees
No fee information is currently available, please contact the University of Bolton’s Academic Fees team by emailing AcademicFees@bolton.ac.uk for more information.
International Fees
No fee information is currently available, please contact the University of Bolton’s Academic Fees team by emailing AcademicFees@bolton.ac.uk for more information.
Bursaries
Important note regarding tuition fees: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
How to apply
Home Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
International Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
Partner Organisation Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
Teaching & Assessment
Our aim is to deliver a stimulating and engaging programme of study to help you broaden and deepen your knowledge and develop the essential skills to study at master’s level (HE7). You will participate in a module that offers diverse learning and teaching approaches which are stimulating, personalised and inclusive, and which are informed by reflection, evaluation and scholarship. These include lectures, presentations, seminars, workshops, collaborative task presentations, group and individual tutorials. The flexibility of the programme is enhanced by its multiple learning modalities, including face-to-face and online learning in individual, group and collaborative settings.
Your learning journey will be supported by the intensive use of a virtual learning environment (VLE) that will support engaging learning activities, enable communication and collaboration, and support real-time formative assessment. In addition, you will undertake a significant amount of personal and independent study for general and subject-specific reading, critical research in relevant topics, preparing for seminar and individual/group tasks and working on assignments. Early in your studies, guidance will be provided on how you can make the best use of this time.
We recognise that you are extending your previous professional practice in education to enhance your professional knowledge and skills for your current as well as future professional roles. Whilst studying on the programme, you will be encouraged to reflect critically on your educational practice, to seek out evidence to evaluate it carefully and to suggest innovative solutions. This programme adopts a blended style of learning and teaching, including online delivery and engagement where appropriate.
Modules
The modules listed below may be a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules shown as part of the course.
- Advanced Coaching and Mentoring
Assessment methods
| Level | Assessment method |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | Coursework 100% |
Learning Activities
| Level | Activity |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | Guided independent study 75% Scheduled learning and teaching activities 25% |
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
