Online Higher Education For Your Career

Flexible, career-focused courses developed with employers and funded through government-backed student loans.

 

  • Designed with businesses and sector partners
  • Flexible online and modular study options
  • Eligible for student loans (LLE and Advanced Learner Loans)
  • Study around work and life
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Designed with businesses, focused on careers

All of our online higher education courses have been designed in collaboration with employers and industry partners.
This ensures the skills you develop are relevant, current and aligned to real career progression.

Our courses are shaped to:

  • Reflect real job roles and progression routes
  • Develop skills employers are actively seeking
  • Support promotion, career change or progression into higher-level roles
  • Balance academic rigour with practical, applied learning

This means your learning is not just a qualification — it is an investment in your career.

A flexible range of higher education courses

We offer a broad and flexible online higher education portfolio, designed to support learners at different stages of their careers.

Short, modular courses

Available through the Lifelong Learning Entitlement

Access to Higher Education

As a route into university-level study

Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs) 

At Levels 4 and 5

You can study:

  • A full qualification
  • Shorter modules to upskill
  • Gradually, over time
  • Alongside work or other commitments

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Funding your learning

The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) is the new name for student loans for adults.

It is designed to help you invest in your career development throughout your working life.

With the LLE, you can:

  • Fund full courses or short modules
  • Study flexibly over time
  • Avoid committing to a full degree from the outset

Applications open September 2026 for January 2027 starts.

Learn more about LLE Funding Your Learning