The Professional Development Centre (PDC) offers a range of programmes for the quality enhancement of teaching, research and administration of educational institutions. The programmes, with their individual objectives and delivery structures, are expected to help beneficiaries.

• Settle in a deregulated and competitive workplace 
• Realise professional accountability and institutional approaches to monitoring 
• Set performance standards for specific centres/ departments /schools 
• Standardise the portfolio (such as course outlines and academic resources) of academic departments and programmes 
• Apply technology to improve teaching and learning outcomes
• Identify measurable objectives of student learning 
• Rationalise students’ tasks and cognitive processes in educational practice 
• Prepare and implement tools to gauge students’ academic achievement and satisfaction 
• Self-assess professional achievements through comprehensive evaluation of performance using technology, such as an e-portfolio and Learning Management System 
• Engage pedagogical approaches in the design and delivery of learning programmes 
• Gain ‘methodological’ skills, such as creativity, criticality, communication and hypothesis design 
• Improve ‘enterprise’ skills, such as problem solving, relationship building and negotiation 
• Become aware of affective aspects, such as attitudes, values and motivation

Additionally, on a regular basis, the centre will

• Create, review and disseminate teacher development-related resources via print, electronic and online media 
• Run teaching and research excellence award schemes 
• Conduct research and publish the findings (possibly through its own journal) on higher education pedagogies 
• Contribute to improving the University’s international collaboration, reputation and ranking