Employers across Northern Ireland require highly skilled professionals to drive their business forward.
Free Skills Courses
Boost your career and employability with our FREE skills courses.
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 - Jan 2025
- Mini MBA developing Family Business - Feb 2025
- Sustainable Transformation in Practice - Feb 2025
- Improvement Through People - Mar 2025
- Quality Management and Process Improvement - Mar 2025
- 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 - Nov 2024
- Clinical Trials Design and Patient Recruitment - applications now closed
- Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine - applications now closed
- Coding Skills for Biologists - Feb 2025
- 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
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