What can you do with the Skills Academy
We're regularly improving our website with new resources
Right now, you can do 3 things with the Skills Academy:
Skills Academy subscription
Subscribe to the Skills Academy and you’ll get instant access to online courses and resources that will help you boost your career and solve everyday technical problems.
Choose an area to focus on in detail, or dip in and out at a pace that suits you.
Introductory offer of £95 for a year’s unlimited access
Subscription to the Skills Academy gives you access to:
- Online courses: access over 1,000
- Online mentors: get support any time
- eBooks: search and read over 240
- TestPreps: test your knowledge with exam support
- Express Guides: stay up-to-date with new software releases
- Tools and templates: download over 60 to save time
- Articles: exclusive analysis and industry insights
See the full list of contents in subscription
Hire an apprentice
Sign up to our Employer Apprenticeship Service and we’ll help you recruit an apprentice.
With our service, you can select Apprentices from a shortlist that’s been created to fit with your requirements. All apprentices who are under 19 get high quality training that’s funded by the government. So you can hire a young person knowing they’ll soon have the exact skills to do their job.
Find out more about hiring an apprentice
Access the IT professional standards
The IT professional standards are:
- a common, sector-wide terminology for describing IT professional disciplines
- developed by employers, professional bodies and e-skills UK
- provide the framework for more detailed specification by discipline and level, building on the IT National Occupational Standards (NOS)
Access the standards
Looking for something else?
We're always looking for new resources that IT professionals might find useful as part of our ongoing development. If there’s something that you’d like to see, or share with us as part of the Skills Academy, get in touch.