Skill Up
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 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 have a right to work and undertake training in the UK for the duration of your course 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
This project is funded by the Department for the Economy through the Skill Up programme.
To be eligible for a fully funded place under this programme applicants must meet each of the following criteria :
- Applicants to be 18 years or older at point of enrolment
- Applicants must have a right to work and undertake training in the UK at the point of application and for the duration of the course and must not be disqualified from doing either by reason of their immigration status. Proof of this will be required to progress application.
- Applicants must be available to register in person. Individual courses may have enhanced eligibility, potentially including on-campus teaching requirements. Please see each course information page for additional information
- We will require the following as proof eligibility: Evidence of Right to Work via Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK
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 Nursing Care of the Older Person in Care Home Settings
- Strategic Management & Leadership in Primary Care
- Social Model for Health & Wellbeing in Primary & Community Care
- Delivering Clinical Trials: From Protocol to Patient
- PGCert Foundations in Clinical Psychology
- Stepping up to Leadership & Management in General Practice
- PgCert in Biopharmaceutical Engineering
- CMI Entrepreneurial Leadership (Applications are now closed due to a high volume of interest)
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 Queen's Portal against the programme application page.
HOW TO APPLY
For Postgraduate Certificates (PgCerts) or Postgraduate Diplomas (PgDips), create an account in the Queen's 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.