Posts tagged ‘pr courses’

Having carried out a series of interviews with our course leaders, we thought it might be nice to hear from our students about their careers and experiences of studying for a professional qualification.

Excellence can be achieved at any stage in a career – Jane Wilson CEO of the CIPR on the changes to membership

PR people are often judged by their contacts rather than their intellectual rigour. This needs to change.

How do communicators prove their worth? ROI, media coverage? Or is it just about having a good strategy and some sound objectives?

Meet our public affairs course leader, Sarah Roberts Bowman.

How the PR Academy bursary has made a difference to enthusiastic PR Alex Bolton.

Its back to school time! The case for of a bit of theory to underpin what we do.

I think PR people really want to get on and recognise the value of high quality qualification in helping them to do so.

That was the question that was posed to PR Academy’s Kevin Ruck by the good folk at PR Moment.  It started off as a question about what other professions PR people could move into, but we thought: ‘Hold up – why would you want to leave PR?’  We think PR people who want to stretch their wings [...]

We are really pleased to have a very worthy winner of our bursary for the Advanced Certificate in Public Relations.  Alexandra Bolton, communications assistant at Centrepoint.   We introduced the bursary three years ago because we wanted to give people without access to funding the opportunity to study for a CIPR professional qualification.  To win the bursary, which consists of [...]

It was great to see a whole conference being devoted to measuring PR (PR Week 18 August) but I couldnt help wondering why we are still having the conversation.  I was heartened to read some common sense though, including that of Philip Sheldrake of Influence Crowd who – thanks goodness – emphasises the need to focus [...]

Got your CIPR Diploma under your belt and wondering what the next step is? You could have a think about working towards Chartered Practitioner Status. The deadline for the next batch of applications to the CIPR is approaching – 2 August. More information here. Kevin and I went along to the CIPR AGM recently where [...]

There is a brand new qualification in the CIPR stable – a new short diploma in public affairs. We have developed it here at PR Academy so naturally we think its great !  What sets it aside from other courses on the market is that it focuses less on the mechanics of how various institutions work – this [...]

Dates for our autumn courses are now available and all published here on our website. We’ve got a fantastic range of PR and internal communication qualifications both face to face in central London and online. Plus there is a brand new qualificaiton coming soon – watch this space! If you know someone who wants to [...]

Tim Morris, one of our lecture team on the Foundation has found himself in print in CorpComms magazine – do you agree with Tim? Be great to hear your views on this key topic for PR.

Good friend of PR Academy, Mike Wooles who studied for his Certificate in Internal Communciation with us has been making headlines in the pages of CIPR Profile. I think Mike has captured the mood of many offices really well here and I mean it when I say in my quote (thanks Mike!) that I think [...]

Well done to our two bursary winners – Melissa Edwards and Rebecca Wilhelm who have both won a bursary towards their study with us. Rebecca , from Hitchin in Hertforshire, a media relations and communication executive with The Food and Drink Federation, wins a bursary towards her studies for the CIPR Diploma.   Melissa from West Dulwich in [...]