FPD (Foundation for Professional Development) Contact Details

In South Africa FPD usually means the Foundation for Professional Development, a private higher education institution and health training organisation based in Pretoria. Its website is foundation.co.za, not fpd.co.za, which is a common reason messages go astray.

Official contact channels

• Telephone: 087 821 1109, or the landline 012 110 4080
• Email: foundation@foundation.co.za
• Fax: 012 807 7165
• An enquiry form on the FPD contact page, which asks for your profession and province, useful when the question is about a specific course
• Registered students and staff use the separate alumni, student and employee dashboards on the FPD website rather than the general mailbox

The domain fpd.co.za belongs to an unrelated company, First Potato Dynamics, a potato seed and development business reached at admin@fpd.co.za. If you are looking for the education and health organisation, use foundation.co.za.

What this organisation provides

• Short courses, graduate programmes and continuing professional development, including a rapid CPD compliance route for health professionals
• Conferences and webinars, and a published short course year planner
• Health research through its research unit, covering HIV, TB, sexually transmitted infections, mental health and implementation research, plus clinical trials
• Other services listed on its site include payroll services, education development, and monitoring, learning and evaluation
• FPD states it was established in 1997

Address and operating information

• Head office: FPD Knowledge Park, 173 Mary Road, The Willows, Pretoria
• The Willows is east of Pretoria, off the N4 near Silver Lakes
• FPD publishes its registration and accreditation details, academic policies and student relations policies on its own website, which is where to confirm that a programme is accredited before enrolling

Research ethics and escalation

• Research ethics submissions go to the FPD Research Ethics Committee, which has its own contact page, application route and reference documents on the FPD website. General enquiries to the committee use the same 087 821 1109 number
• For a student or academic matter, quote your student number and programme name, and escalate through the student relations policy published on the FPD site
• FPD publishes a PAIA manual and a conflict of interest policy, which set out how to request records and raise a governance concern

Sources

• Foundation for Professional Development contact page, for the telephone and landline numbers, the fax number, the organisation mailbox, the head office address and the 1997 founding date
• FPD website navigation, for the course, research, ethics committee and other service areas, and for the published policies and accreditation section
• First Potato Dynamics website, for the confirmation that fpd.co.za belongs to a different company and for its administration mailbox