Free Skills Courses Boost your career and employability with our FREE skills courses.
Employers across Northern Ireland require highly skilled professionals to drive their business forward.
DfE Skills courses - Skill Up to succeed!
Applications for Sept 2025 will open on 4 August.
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 open on 4 August
Short Courses
- Sustainable Transformation in Practice - applications open on 4 August
- Strategic Digital Transformation - applications open on 4 August
- Innovation Management - applications open on 4 August
- Operational Quality Excellence - applications open on 4 August
- Tourism and Hospitality Principles - applications open on 4 August
Computing
PG Certificate
- PG Certificate Professional Software Development (Architecture and Design) - applications open on 4 August
Education
Short Course
- Embedding Numeracy in Further Education Learning - applications open on 4 August
Engineering & Energy
PG Certificates
- PG Certificate Energy Management & Green Technology - applications open on 4 August
- PG Certificate Hydrogen Safety - applications open on 4 August
Environment
PG Certificates
- PG Certificate in Environmental Management - applications open on 4 August
- PG Certificate Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Monitoring - applications open on 4 August
- PG Certificate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - applications open on 4 August
- PG Certificate Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems - applications open on 4 August
Short Courses
- GIS Databases- applications open on 4 August
- Principles of GIS - applications open on 4 August
- Introduction to Remote Sensing - applications open on 4 August
Life & Health Sciences
PG Certificates
- PG Certificate Pharmaceutical Analysis - applications open on 4 August
- PG Certificate Molecular & Pharmaceutical Analysis - applications open on 4 August
Short Courses
- Industrial Biotechnology - applications open on 4 August
- Introduction to Personalised Medicine and Pharmacogenomics - applications open on 4 August
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