Free Courses We Wish We’d Heard of Before

One of the great things about the Internet is the wealth of free knowledge there is at your fingertips; we can learn virtually anything online for free if we know where to look. But sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know and a lot of the resources out there are hidden away.

We’ve gathered a handful of the courses we wish we’d heard of way before now.

Maybe some of them will be of use to you, or someone you know!

Google Digital Garage

GDG offer free courses in a wide range of digital themes to help people with developing and growing their own businesses online or simply improving their digital literacy. They offer courses in the following areas:

• Building engaging presentations
• Building a personal brand online
• Creating videos with YouTube
• Fundamentals of digital marketing
• Finding your career goals
• Getting started with Digital Advertising
• Marketing
• Getting your Business visible on Google
• Social media strategy
• Writing for Social Media.

For more information go to – https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/

Barclays Digital Wings & Life Skills

Barclays Digital Wings program offers free courses to help you grow or enhance your digital skills, whether that is for personal home use or for business. They also offer free courses and educational materials on banking at home and banking for business.

Some of the courses they offer include:

• Social Media Training
• Being safe and legal online
• Using Digital Devices
• Transacting
• Handling information and content
• Keeping children safe online
• Digital skills for business

For more information go to – https://www.barclays.co.uk/digital-confidence/eagles/

Alison

Alison offers thousands of free Diplomas and Certificates in topics covering everything from IT, Management and Engineering to Health, Languages and Academics.

This is what Alison say about their organisation on their website:

“We believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is one of the world’s largest free learning platforms for education and skills training. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity and equality for everyone.”

For more information go to – https://alison.com/about/our-story

Reed

Reed features 190 free courses in a wide range of topics, alongside thousands of courses available to buy. Some may not be available if you have not been living in the UK for long, however it’s still worth taking a look as they frequently update what they have available.

For more information go to – https://www.reed.co.uk/courses/microsoft-word-from-zero-to-advanced/366884#/courses/free/microsoft-word

Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy is a great one for parents, especially now, when more and more parents are choosing to teach their children from home. Oak National Academy offers free self-pace world class education to students anywhere in the world. They also offer free tools for parents and teachers.

Topics covered include Life Skills, Economics, Math, Computing, Arts and Humanities, Reading and Language and Test Prep.

They offer courses for every age and stage of learning.

For more information go to – https://www.thenational.academy/

Learning Curve Group

Learning Curve offers a variety of level 2 and level 3 full funded courses, including apprenticeships. Funding may not be available for every course but it’s well worth taking a look and applying to see if you are eligible for any courses that catch your eye.

For more information go to – https://www.learningcurvegroup.co.uk/courses/learners?page=1

One Month Free Trial to LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning offers one-month free access to 18,000+ self-paced courses taught by professionals in their field from all over the world. You can earn certificates to use in your CV when you complete these courses, and to continue having unlimited access to these courses after your free trial you simply pay a monthly membership of £16.99.

For more information go to – https://www.linkedin.com/learning

LinkedIn also has free courses on offer that require no membership or sign up to use, which they first published during coronavirus to support the many people who were suddenly unemployed or working from home.

To explore what’s available there go to – https://about.linkedin.com/coronavirus-resource-hub/online-courses

RFS Career Academy

Recruit for Spouses Career Academy offers a wide range of support for spouses wanting to re-enter the workforce (or start their own businesses). This includes interview preparation, CV writing, bespoke one-to-one mentoring and coaching from leading experts in the field.

To find out more about what kind of support is available through the Career Academy and how we can best support you, get in touch at – careeracademy@recruitforspouses.co.uk and someone will be in touch as soon as possible.

When you register with RFS we are then able to keep you updated on new free courses, apprenticeships and training as they become available.