Want to boost your digital skills?
Over the past few years, the world has shifted to become more digital, especially when it comes to the workplace. If you need to brush up on your social media skills, or want to get to grips with the digital landscape, explore a few of our digital skills resources and enjoy free online training.
Your Digital Pathway
Your Digital Pathway
Your Digital Pathway is a new, free digital skills course from Santander in collaboration with the Institute of Coding, and the award winning Tech UP initiative based at Durham University.
Get your Digital Pathway Information PackBT
Skills for Tomorrow
Learn the basics of social media for business, find out more about cyber security and discover the basics of coding – all for free.
Visit the BT Skills for Tomorrow websiteGoogle
Digital Garage
Get free digital marketing qualifications and develop your career with free courses from the world’s biggest search engine.
Visit Google's Digital Garage websiteiDEA Award
Inspiring Digital Enterprise
Develop digital, enterprise and employability skills – with everything from coding to growth hacking – for free with bite-sized courses.
Visit the iDEA websiteLearn My Way
Get online
Learn how to use the internet safely and effectively with free online courses, with additional advice on how to apply for jobs online.
Visit the Learn My Way websiteLinkedIn
LinkedIn Learning
Discover thousands of courses in web development, design, business skills, and online marketing, with a free month available to new members.
Visit the LinkedIn Learning websiteLloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank Academy
Achieve your goals with free digital skills learning from Lloyds Bank, covering a range of topics such as working with spreadsheets, improving your CV and creating social media content.
Visit the Lloyds Bank Academy websiteMicrosoft
Office 365 Training Centre
Learn how to make the most of Microsoft Office’s different programs on any device – so whether you want to work smarter or just need to brush up on your Word skills, watch Microsoft’s videos and tips.
Visit the Microsoft Training websiteNational Careers Service
Skills toolkit
Find out more about free courses to help you learn new skills or change jobs, including a huge range of digital courses.
Visit the National Careers Service websitePearson
UK Learns
UK Learns, part of Pearson, provides access to some of the world’s best quality, certified courses that employers value. Many are currently free of charge while the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing.
Visit the Pearson website
Local Support
Adult Education in Gloucestershire
IT skills training
Adult Education in Gloucestershire, provided by Gloucestershire County Council (GCC), offers basic level IT and computer skills training to help you get into the workplace and gain a better understanding of programs like the Microsoft Office suite.
Visit the GCC website
Learning and Training
Gloucestershire College
Computing and IT courses
From the basics of Excel to game design, Gloucestershire College offers a wide range of full- and part-time courses to build on your digital knowledge.
Visit the Gloucestershire College websiteLibrary Network
Provide access to PCs for the general public to use
All Gloucestershire Libraries (including the 8 Community Run libraries) provide access to PCs for the general public to use. These can be booked in advance or can be walk up if there is capacity Library Locations. Gloucestershire County Council Libraries are well used by job seekers and in some cases staff can help customers to use the computers. All Libraries offer free WiFi.
Visit the Gloucestershire Libraries websiteSouth Gloucestershire and Stroud College
Digital IT and Computing courses
Become a cyber-security expert or boost your computer confidence with full and part-time courses at SGS.
Visit the SGS websiteUniversity of Gloucestershire
Degree-level courses
Find out more about the University of Gloucestershire’s computing courses, allowing you to get industry ready in a range of digital arenas, from game design and cyber security to applied artificial intelligence.
Visit the UoG websiteExcel Easy
If you're an Microsoft Excel beginner, this is the perfect place to start.
Excel Easy offers free tutorial on how to use Excel. Want to learn much more about Excel? You can find related examples and features (300 Examples). We keep it easy!
Visit the Excel Easy websiteProspect Training Services
Digital Skills
Always looking to innovate to support our delivery, PTS opened the Prospect Digital studio in 2009 for the creation of apps, eLearning and learner management systems to enhance the learning experience. Our studio has grown from supporting our own internal needs to servicing a wide range of organisations who want to scale their impact and transform how they engage people. It offers a full range of services from branding and web design to full eLearning, app development and database solutions.
Visit the Prospect website