Choose your fully funded short course
Investing in the development of your professional skill set is a great way of retaining talent in your team and protecting the future success of your career.
Here at NTU, we strive to provide only the best experience for all our course participants. Our courses cover a broad range of subjects including leadership, sustainability, technology, marketing and much more.
Our courses are accessible to individuals across a variety of business sizes, sectors and geographical areas, you can find out more below.
Women in Leadership
On this course, you'll learn how to lead and manage high-performing teams, the importance of organisational culture and more. It's ideal for women looking to develop or pursue skills in leadership.
Women in STEM Leadership
On this course, you'll learn how to lead and manage high-performing teams, the importance of organisational culture and more. It's ideal for women looking to develop or pursue skills in leadership.
Effective Change Management
Our Effective Change Management course is designed to help senior professionals, managers and leaders within SMEs to develop knowledge and skills in managing change. The course will help you to understand how to design, implement and lead change effectively.
Coaching and Mentoring Training
The course is a practical 1-day development programme, led by NTU's Apprenticeship team. The course is for anyone who mentors an apprentice and wishes to maximise the benefits of having and effectively mentoring apprentices in their own organisations.
Practical Marketing Skills
Effective marketing helps to build your brand and have a lasting impact by getting the word out about your business and allowing you to connect with new customers. You can build your current customer base, and most importantly, boost your sales.
Digital Fundamentals
Our Digital Fundamentals course has been created as a follow-on module from the Practical Marketing Skills course and will enable you to build your digital marketing skills and create a digital marketing plan for your business!
Skills Bootcamp in Digital Marketing
The NTU Skills Bootcamp in Digital Marketing has been designed specifically for independent learners that want to acquire or enhance their digital marketing skills to improve their chances of securing full-time employment.
Our Digital Marketing Fundamentals short course is very popular, below is a testimonial from a previous participant:
Now I can hire a marketing team to sit with me and it is thanks to this course and the networking. Because it is practical and you’re working with businesses, we are the students, but we are all businesses so its real-life instances. I have got so much out of it’s brilliant.
Kristina Causer, Marketing and Communications Manager at Baxter Freight
Introduction to Sustainability in Construction - funded course
This course is for anyone in the construction sector interested in policies, regulations, and assessment strategies and the impact they are having on construction technology, the efficient use of resources, and the promotion of health and wellbeing.
Energy Management for Sustainable Construction - funded course
On this course you’ll learn how energy efficiency and overall sustainability can be achieved by exploring the strategies being applied to the design and construction of buildings.
Introduction to Heritage and Conservation - funded course
The course will introduce you to the legal framework in place in the UK to ensure that repairs are appropriate and proportionate, meeting the requirements of the local authority and Historic England.
AutoCAD 2D for the Construction Professional - funded course
On this course you’ll learn how to effectively communicate design ideas and develop the key principles of graphical communication using industry-standard AutoCAD software.
Introduction to BIM for the Construction Professional - funded course
This course will introduce and develop the core principles of Building Information Modelling (BIM) as used in the planning, design, construction and operation phases of a project using the AutoDesk Revit platform.
Microsoft Excel for the Construction Professional - funded course
This course will develop your software skills in Microsoft Excel to an advanced level, with a focus on its application to construction-related problem-solving.
Green Skills Bootcamps
Delivering a range of Skills Bootcamps to meet the needs of the green economy. From supporting the transition from high to low carbon, to directly contributing to the achievement of the UK's net zero emissions target, there's a course for you.
Food & drink: sustainability courses
Level 3 Food Safety for Food Manufacturing
This short course covers those aspects of the supervision of food hygiene and safety, to enable you to identify problem areas and to recommend solutions.
Level 3 Understanding How to Develop a HACCP Plan
This course will give you the knowledge and understanding required to be an integral part of a HACCP team and to supervise the implementation of a HACCP-based system in the work environment.
Diversity and inclusion courses
Diversity and Inclusion Introduction
This course has been designed to enhance your awareness and understanding of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The course is led by Dr Anne Cockayne (Senior Lecturer) and Dawn Smitten (Industry Skills Coach) in Nottingham Business School.
Diverse Leadership Development
The course is for anyone who manages a diverse team and wishes to maximise the benefits of diversity, optimise their own diverse strengths and improve inclusion in their own organisations.
Inclusive Recruitment
Our Inclusive Recruitment course is a non-accredited interactive learning and development programme, delivered by NTU's Employability team. Delivered weekly over five bitesize sessions the programme aims to develop your understanding and knowledge around inclusive recruitment of early career talent.
Data, business intelligence and programming courses
Business Intelligence Taster Session
Business intelligence is vital to an organisation since it helps in converting data and information into knowledge that can then be used to create plans for carrying out business success. This taster session will give you a great starting point that you can take away or continue to build on in the full course.
Business Intelligence Full Course
Business intelligence is vital to an organisation since it helps in converting data and information into knowledge that can then be used to create plans for carrying out business success. This short course will introduce you to the key concepts of business intelligence, helping you to develop an understanding of what business intelligence is and how you can apply it to your business.
Skills Bootcamp in Python Programming
This Skills Bootcamp introduces you to the fundamental principles of object-oriented analysis and design methodologies, techniques and tools for developing a computer-based system.
Commercial Intellectual Property for Business course
Nottingham Law School, jointly with our award winning law firm NLS Legal Limited, are pleased to offer a series of short seminars to build your knowledge of Intellectual Property. These will introduce you to Intellectual Property, explore how to protect your IP and avoid pitfalls, and finally look at how to commercialise your IP.
You can choose to come on one, all or a selection of the different modules depending on your knowledge and needs.
Our Enterprising Ashfield courses are fully funded for local people in Kirkby and Sutton-in-Ashfield. Whether you're unemployed, working for a local business or seeking a new challenge, our courses can benefit you at any stage of your career.
By investing in your professional development you can improve your CV and develop skills that can also be applied in the workplace.
Eligibility
The courses above are delivered through the High Level Skills programme, the Enterprising Ashfield project and various Skills Bootcamps.
Our range of courses are accessible to individuals across a variety of business sizes, sectors, employment statuses and geographical areas. If you have any questions on eligibility you can find more details and contact information on the relevant pages linked above.