Skill Up Flexible Skills Fund
SKILL UP
We are offering FREE places, funded by the Department for the Economy, on a number of courses.
To build an innovative future, we will need to call on our brightest minds.
SKILL UP, the flexible skills fund has been designed to provide additional upskilling and reskilling opportunities, focused on supporting individuals to engage in learning and improve the skills profile of our local workforce.
If you are resident and settled in Northern Ireland and thinking about reskilling, now is the perfect time to take your next step and enrol on one of our free Postgraduate or short courses across the following areas:
- Green Skills
- Software
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Health and Social Care
- Transversal skills
To be eligible for a fully funded place under this programme you must:
- Be over 18-years-old;
- Resident in Northern Ireland;
- Eligible to work in Northern Ireland;
- ‘Settled’ in Northern Ireland, and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least three years OR are a person who has indefinite leave to enter or remain in the UK.
- Must meet the existing entry requirements for the course.
Due to high demand you are advised to apply as early as possible.
We may be able to consider self-funded or employer funded applicants on a case by case basis, as capacity on the individual PGCert programmes allow. Please indicate in your application if you wish to be considered as a self-funded or employer funded applicant.
- PgCert Mechanical Engineering with Management
- PgCert Operations and Supply Chain Management (Details to follow)
- PgCert Hydrogen Energy Systems
- PgCert Zero Carbon Engineering
- PgCert Engineering of Energy, Economics and the Environment
- PgCert Climate Change
- PgCert Environmental Engineering (Details to follow)
- Strategic Management and Leadership in Primary Care
- Social Model for Health and Wellbeing in Primary and Community Care
- Short Course Care of the Older Person in Care Home Settings (Details to follow)
- PgCert Nursing Care of the Older Person in Care Home Settings (Details to follow)
- PgCert Foundations in Clinical Psychology
- PgCert in Biopharmaceutical Engineering
- PgCert Software Development
- PgCert Introduction to Games Technologies
- PgDip Games Technologies
- PgCert Audio Visual Post Production (Details to follow)
In the event that programmes receive a high number of applications, the University reserves the right to close the application portal. Notifications to this effect will appear on the Direct Application Portal against the programme application page.
HOW TO APPLY
For Postgraduate Certificates (PgCerts) or Postgraduate Diplomas (PgDips), create an account in the Queen's Direct Application Portal and fill in an online application.
For all other courses, follow the guidance listed on the links above.
Note: If you have already applied for one of the above courses but did not know about the funded places available, your original application will still be considered equally for a funded place. We will contact you if this applies to you.
Any questions? Contact us here.