Postgraduate Professional qualifications are vocational qualifications, often involving an element of practical training.
These qualifications are usually linked with a specific industry and are designed to help you improve and develop relevant skills for a particular career path.
PG Professional qualifications are typically regulated and awarded by professional bodies within the relevant industry, and are designed to ensure that everyone employed in a particular job meets the minimum required standards of professional expertise. For example solicitors must complete the LPC before they can become a trainee solicitor; chartered accountants will study towards an ACA or ICAEW (The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) qualification.