Funding support
Explore potential funding options available to support your CPD journey.
University of the West of Scotland (UWS) prides itself on providing flexible short courses to support upskilling and reskilling.
The workplace continues to change significantly and at pace, leaving many organisations and people with a very real need for lifelong learning – to gain new knowledge and skills, and seek opportunities to innovate and grow.
UWS is the local university for over 40% of Scotland’s population, so we are uniquely placed to understand the specific challenges facing our communities – both urban and remote rural – and their key industry sectors in the years ahead.
We work closely with public, private and third sector partners to understand the needs of the workforce and we are committed to supporting economic recovery in the UK and beyond in a rapidly evolving world.
Skills Scholarships
To access UWS modules via the CPD route, individuals must meet the following residence requirement:
- be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for the three years immediately before the relevant date, and
- have ‘settled status’ in the UK (as set out in the Immigration Act 1971) on the relevant date, and
- be ordinarily resident in Scotland on the relevant date.
Ordinarily resident means that a person must have made their home in Scotland intending to stay and live here. If just in Scotland to study, but otherwise you would be living elsewhere, you are not ordinarily resident in Scotland.
A Skills Scholarship is available to those who meet the above residence requirement and are enrolling for the first time at UWS. A fee waiver will be applied for one module only.
Note that Skills Scholarships are available across a selection of CPD modules.
Please confirm that you wish to be considered for a Skills Scholarship and that you meet the eligibility criteria when applying. The CPD Centre will notify you of the outcome ahead of supporting enrolment.
Alumni Discount
We are delighted to announce that we currently have an exclusive offer available to UWS alumni!
To celebrate the launch of a selection of Postgraduate modules being delivered in the evening on our Paisley campus starting in January 2025, UWS alumni* can benefit from a 20% discount off the standard module fee of £1,070 thus, reducing the payable fee to £856.
*Conditions:
This discount cannot be combined with any other tuition fee discount or scholarship.
Only applies to the following modules, and only to January 2025 cohorts:
Future Marketing & Transformational Technology (eve)
Introduction to Neurodiversity
Leadership Development in a Changing World (eve)
Project Management Fundamentals (eve)
Resourcing and Managing Talent (eve)
To qualify, individuals are required to have studied at UWS or a previous higher education institution which is now part of UWS, for at least one year.
To qualify, individuals must also meet the following residence requirement:
- be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for the three years immediately before the relevant date, and
- have ‘settled status’ in the UK (as set out in the Immigration Act 1971) on the relevant date, and
- be ordinarily resident in Scotland on the relevant date.
Ordinarily resident means that a person must have made their home in Scotland intending to stay and live here. If just in Scotland to study, but otherwise you would be living elsewhere, you are not ordinarily resident in Scotland.
IMPORTANT: When applying for your chosen module from the above list, please include a note of your UWS student ID and state that you wish to be considered for the UWS Alumni Discount under the Additional information section of the online form.
If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk
Upskilling Fund
Please note that the Upskilling Fund will no longer be available for Academic Year 2024/25.