United Kingdom Courses & Certifications

School business manager: Developing the role

9 ratings at OpenLearn

There is an ongoing revolution in the running of state schools and this is making the position of the school business manager both significant and necessary. Government thinking, together with ...

• OpenLearn
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Social care in the community

21 ratings at OpenLearn

Social care involves the challenge of supporting people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to function without assistance or supervision. This free course, Social care in the community, ...

• OpenLearn
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Everyday English 2

11 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Everyday English 2, will inspire you to improve your current English skills and help you to communicate more effectively in everyday work and life.

• OpenLearn
• 48 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Getting started with German 1

51 ratings at OpenLearn

Almost 100 million people speak German as their main language. Most of them live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, making German one of the most widely-used languages in Europe. Although now ...

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Getting started with Spanish 2

7 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course is your next step to continue your journey learning Spanish, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. You should have some knowledge of Spanish, either because you ...

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Asset allocation in investment

18 ratings at OpenLearn

This course looks at how to take investor objectives and constraints and turn them into a portfolio which aims at achieving an expected return and level of risk appropriate for the investor. In ...

• OpenLearn
• 9 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Challenges in advanced management accounting

10 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Challenges in advanced management accounting, focuses on strategic management accounting and selected concepts and techniques. It will help you to successfully navigate mid- to ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

3 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course introduces basic ideas of probability. It focuses on dealing with uncertainty in a financial context and explores decision trees, a powerful decision-making technique, which can ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

4 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations, provides an opportunity for people who work within voluntary organisations, as paid employees or staff, to develop ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Discovering development management

9 ratings at OpenLearn

Discovering development management is a free course that sets out to build up the basic capacities for managing the multiple challenges of development – any development. It rests on the assumption ...

• OpenLearn
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

45 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Entrepreneurship: from ideas to reality, is about starting and running your own business. Using case studies it will take you through the decisions from generating initial ideas ...

• OpenLearn
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Exploring evidence-based policing

2 ratings at OpenLearn

This course, Exploring evidence-based policing, examines the basic elements of evidence-based policing and gives insight into how more evidence-based approaches can inform better policing practice.

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introducing ageing

20 ratings at OpenLearn

Everyone is ageing, whatever their current age, and we live in a world where many people are living much longer than previous generations. This is often seen as a problem. But is it? This free ...

• OpenLearn
• 11 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Marketing communications as a strategic function

29 ratings at OpenLearn

Marketing communications help to define an organisation's relationship with its customers. This free course, Marketing communications as a strategic function, emphasises the strategic importance of...

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Marketing in the 21st Century

34 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Marketing in the 21st century, offers a managerial perspective on how to deliver more effective marketing in an organisation, regardless of whether it is based in the private, ...

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate