I’m not a huge football fan. I’ve never supported a team and I only ever take an interest in the England team if they reach a final. However, this summer while the Euros were taking place, I visited the most northern football stadium in England (St James Park, Newcastle), the most southern football stadium in England (Plymouth Argyle) and the third largest football stadium in England (Etihad stadium, Manchester). Why was a non-football fan visiting these football places of interest? It’s all down to CPD Rev.
CPD Rev is our live event series which offers a jam-packed day of CPD aimed at accessibility and wellbeing professionals from the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) sector, wider Higher Education sector, and workplace sector. This year the six events took place at the three football stadiums mentioned above as well as a hotel in Bristol and another one in London and a science museum in Birmingham – it was quite an impressive sight-seeing tour of the UK!
In the world of assistive technology (AT) things are frequently changing. New features or software versions are released, brand new AT can appear from seemingly nowhere, quickly becoming one of the market leaders. As professionals supporting disabled individuals it’s important to keep up to date on the ever-changing landscape of AT to ensure we are aware of the latest support available. This is where CPD Rev comes in.
We want everyone to get as much out of CPD Rev as possible. That is why every year we send a feedback survey to both our delegates and our AT partners. We then use this feedback to help shape the next year’s events.
This year, some of the innovations we launched were:
As you can imagine hosting six events across the country includes a lot of travelling and what better way to pass the time on the motorways of England than planning CPD Rev 2025? Yes, we started planning next year’s event series before the final whistle had even been blown on this year’s. Obviously most of the details and newly planned innovations for next year are still top secret – but, keep an eye out for CPD Rev 2025 announcements in January.
What we can confirm is that there will be no transfers during the 2025 CPD Rev season as we will once again be taking CPD Rev to Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Plymouth and the event series will be taking place in June. Following feedback it will once again be a game of two halves as we will be bringing back the 30-minute and 15-minute workshops for 2025.
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