Skill Up

DfE Skills courses - Skill Up to succeed!

Working in partnership with the Department for the Economy, we are offering a range of FREE courses to ensure you have the skills and expertise to develop your career.

We have a wide range of courses available across a number of sectors including Business, Computing, Education, Engineering, Energy and Health Sciences. Browse through our full list of courses and apply now! Limited places are available across all programmes.

Courses offered are subject to change.

Business

PG Certificate

PG Certificate Executive Leadership - applications now closed

Short Courses

Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality - applications now closed
Mini MBA developing Family Business - applications now closed
Sustainable Transformation in Practice - applications now closed
Improvement Through People - applications now closed
Quality Management and Process Improvement - applications now closed
Strategic Digital Transformation - applications now closed
Innovation Management - applications now closed
Operational Excellence - applications now closed
Tourism and Hospitality Principles - applications now closed

Computing

PG Certificate

PG Certificate Professional Software Development (Architecture and Design) - applications now closed

Short Course

Cyber Security - applications now closed
Data Science Foundations - applications now closed
Data Science and Machine Learning - applications now closed
Emerging and Advanced Topics in AI - applications now closed
Knowledge Engineering - applications now closed
Scalable Advanced Software Solutions - applications now closed

Education

Short Course

Inclusive and Special Education: Developing and Analysing Practice - applications now closed

Engineering & Energy

PG Certificates

PG Certificate Energy Management & Green Technology - applications now closed
PG Certificate Hydrogen Safety - applications now closed
PG Certificate in Smart Manufacturing Systems - applications now closed

Short Courses

Design Optimization of Mechanical Systems - applications now closed
Intelligent Manufacturing - applications now closed
Manufacturing Technology - applications now closed
Mechatronics - applications now closed
Process Product Optimisation - applications now closed
Advanced Thermal Fluid Sciences and CFD - applications now closed
Control for Mechatronic Engineers - applications now closed
Design and Industrial Applications - applications now closed
Production Systems - applications now closed
Manufacturing Systems - applications now closed

Environment

PG Certificates

PG Certificate in Environmental Management - applications now closed
PG Certificate Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Monitoring - applications now closed
PG Certificate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - applications now closed
PG Certificate Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems - applications now closed

Life & Health Sciences

PG Certificates

PG Certificate Pharmaceutical Analysis - applications now closed
PG Certificate Molecular & Pharmaceutical Analysis - applications now closed

Short Courses

Industrial Biotechnology - applications now closed
Clinical Trials Design and Patient Recruitment - applications now closed
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - applications now closed
Coding Skills for Biologists - applications now closed
Pharmacogenomics Informed Prescribing - Mar 2025
Synthetic Biology - March 2025
Introduction to Personalised Medicine and Pharmacogenomics - applications now closed

Social Policy

Short Courses

Qualitative Research Methods (Social Policy) - applications now closed
Survey and Quantitative Methods (Social Policy) - applications now closed
The Politics of Social Policy and Welfare: National, International, Transnational and Global - applications now closed