Business Marketing & Technology — Online Courses

How skilfully do you manage the impression you make on people both in person and in online meetings and interviews? Develop your personal effectiveness by looking at voice and body language, assertiveness, sensitive listening, interviewing techniques and communication skills for business meetings. This course will be taught online.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

The British isles were once covered in temperate rainforests. Join Chantal Woodrun to discover these landscapes and what still remains of them.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

In this interactive session we will discuss past, present and future missions to the Moon, in particular NASA’s Artemis mission and the plan to send people back to the Moon.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Do parallel universes exist? We will see how modern physics does not rule out this possibility and how some theories and observations may even imply that our universe is just one of many.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

We hear and read about climate change every day. Yet it is hard to keep up and get the big picture. Join us to slow down and get a sense of how the problem of climate change has emerged, what is being done about it and what more needs doing.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

We will take a tour of the seasonal night sky, going beyond the veil of light pollution to explore the cosmic sights that we can all find from home. You will learn how to plan your stargazing session from maps to apps and find the things that most people miss.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Learn a range of commonly-used techniques from statistics and data processing from the mean and range to kernel density estimation and the Fourier transform.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Do you want to learn the digital skills needed for office and administration work? On this course, you will focus on completing the keys tasks required to be a business administrator. You will learn how to produce high quality and well-presented documents such as minutes, formal letters and flyers using Word. You will develop your skills in producing presentations with PowerPoint that are visually appealing, modern and effective. You will also work in depth on how to use Excel and Access for data handling, processing and analysing, including how to enter and edit data, arrange and present it effectively, make calculations and highlights data trends.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

Learn about the main types of asset traded on financial markets including shares, bonds and derivatives, including how and why they are used and the mathematical techniques used to value them.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This is a new course for the 2025/26 academic year in the Business and Technology department which we are currently preparing the outline for. Please check again soon.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Does the amount of data coming into your inbox and folders threaten to overwhelm you? Do you need to develop a system for managing information, tasks and meetings? MS Outlook and OneNote can be part of this system but for many people they feel part of the problem rather than the solution. This course will enable them to work for you not the other way round. You will focus on how to think about problems, solve them and what you are trying to achieve. You will work on developing an email routine that allows you to concentrate on tasks at hand and not be distracted by incoming messages. You will focus on how to create a folder system on Outlook and process using quick steps, rules, categories and colour-coding so you can keep a trace of emails, tasks and appointments. You will learn simple and efficient ways to schedule your work and use notes and task and the flagging system to keep track of your priorities. In addition you will focus on how you can integrate OneNote and Outlook to save you time.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

SharePoint is an increasingly common collaboration tool across workplaces, vital for keeping staff informed as well as enabling them to work together across projects. On this course, you will focus on the purpose of SharePoint, when to use it and how it fits into your business communications. You will learn how to create a Team Site, lay out the site effectively, manage your files within the Document Library, work on and share your files, plus customise your site effectively. This course will prioritise what you use SharePoint for so you can situate its functions within work-based tasks and fully grasp why you are using it.

This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.