To celebrate Black Friday, we are offering a once-off 20% discount on any CIPS study centre bookings for the next week. This is a phenomenally good offer for any of our existing our new CIPS students, and can be applied to any study centre booking during the 2023 calendar year.

Cordie is delighted to announce that once again we have passed our annual Cyber Essentials Plus certification, giving reassurance to all our customers and learners that we have the appropriate systems and processes in place to protect personal data and commercial information.

It’s been buzzing these past few weeks! Cordie has just kicked off another two cohorts of the Commercial Apprenticeship - one with virtual learning, the other classroom-based. The apprentices come from a wide range of sectors and backgrounds, and will spend the next two years studying procurement and supply with the support of their employers and UK Government funding.

Hot off the press! We are pleased to announce the launch of our “Introduction to Warehousing” eLearning, which is available within our learning management system (the Virtual Purchasing Academy).

We are delighted to announce that the UK’s Department for Education has recently confirmed our application to be a Main Provider of apprenticeship programmes was successful. This builds on our successes as a supporting provider and opens up more opportunities for learners to access Government-funded opportunities to gain procurement qualifications.

Have you missed the ‘buzz’ of being in the training room? Many learners and training providers that we speak to have said they miss those added levels of engagement from being face-to-face with a group of like-minded learners. The great news is that recent weeks and months have shown a significant return to face-to-face training across industry!

If you are in touch with Sarah in the office this week, please congratulate her on completing the gruelling 54-mile London-to-Brighton Bike Ride on Sunday 19 June 2022.

We are all now increasingly aware of the need for good mental health – both at work and outside in our personal lives. Here at Cordie we have been actively celebrating Mental Health Awareness Week, while also raising money for local charity: Dorset Mind.

Cordie CIPS students had a surprise treat in store over the last two weeks of exams at the Cordie head office, managing to raise a whopping £880.00 for victims of the Ukraine humanitarian crisis in the process!

Category Management is an essential skill for anyone wanting to manage their third party expenditure and develop longer-term supply chain strategies for success. Applied correctly, it can unlock significant value for organisations in any business sector.

Cordie now provides free ‘mock’ exam questions in the form of online Question Banks for all of our CIPS students and apprentices. This is a great resource to test your knowledge and understanding of the required learning content as part of your exam preparation in the run up to a CIPS exam.

Once again, we are pleased to announce the success rates of our apprentices working through their End Point Assessments on the Level 4 Commercial Apprenticeship in Procurement & Supply. During the last submission round, we have continued our 100% pass-rate where 50% of our apprentices have gained a distinction grade.

We are delighted to announce the UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has recently selected Cordie to delivery CIPS professional qualification studies for its procurement staff.