Business, Marketing & Technology Courses
Excited by new technology, scientific breakthroughs or business success? Want to improve your digital skills for the workplace or for personal use? Or perhaps you'd like to delve deeper into nature, conservation or astronomy?
We offer a wide range of courses to support your learning. Whether you're interested in programming, coding, web design, or data analysis with Python, we have something for you. Stay updated with the latest technology through our Generative AI and machine learning courses. These will help you understand new developments and give you the tools to succeed in business and digital marketing.
Additionally, we've introduced new courses in Financial Technologies (FinTech), Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, and Cybersecurity for business. Recognizing the importance of decision-making in AI, we also offer short courses on Ethics in AI and Business Sustainability in AI.
Our tutors are highly qualified industry professionals and will help you reach your personal goals whether you are a complete beginner or are building on existing experience.
Staff training and employee development
We also offer corporate training for your employees. This can be customised to your company’s training needs and the areas we cover are Programming, Web development, Adobe Creative cloud, Advanced MS Office, digital marketing, social media, podcasting, Generative AI and Ethics in AI, Financial Technologies (FinTech) and cybersecurity for business. We have been successfully delivering ad hoc workplace training courses for over two decades to companies in London. In recent years we have also been offering staff skills training courses online or in hybrid format to provide more flexibility to employees looking to develop their skills. For more information on employee development courses please contact our department computing@citylit.ac.uk
Browse technology, business and science courses below and enrol today!
- Introduction to Robotics
Course start date: Thu 22 May 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Muhammad KhanRobotics is transforming industries and daily life through automation. Building on your basic technical skills, this course teaches you to design, build, and program robots through hands-on projects.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Online marketing: a detailed introduction Course start date: Fri 30 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Julian HoldenA popular course that provides an in-depth look at the tools and techniques you can use to market your business on the internet. Examine Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), web advertising with Google AdWords and social media marketing among other topics, along with the management tools needed to measure success.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Communicating effectively at workCourse start date: Thu 5 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jonny BlackHow 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.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Becoming confident on Word 365 (beginner)Course start date: Thu 12 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you new to Word and word processing? Do you want to learn this essential skill both for work and private life? This course will help you create and organise digital letters and short documents.You will learn all the basic functions of creating documents: adding, copying, moving and formatting text, inserting pictures and creating tables, checking spelling and grammar, changing the page layout and printing different documents accurately. All you need is enthusiasm, and confidence using a mouse and basic keyboard functions.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £40.00 - Podcasting: introduction Course start date: Fri 13 Jun 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David MonteithDo you want to create your own podcast? This is your chance to develop your ideas into a podcast which you will produce in this course.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Introduction to artificial intelligence Course start date: Thu 30 Oct 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Kathryn ColdhamStephen Hawking and Elon Musk say it's humanity's biggest threat, but you use it every day. Learn what artificial intelligence is, what it will become, and how it works.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00 - Learning to use your smartphone (Android)Course start date: Thu 12 Mar 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Does your smartphone confuse you? Are you unsure how to make the most of its many features? Understanding and navigating your way round a smartphone is now as important as being able to use a regular computer. This short course will help you understand your Android smartphone, troubleshoot problems and use some of the most popular apps. By the end of the course you will be confident you can use or find out how to use the key features of your phone.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £25.00 - HTML5 & CSS: intermediate (stage 2) Course start date: Thu 19 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: George StickneyWant to expand your knowledge of HTML5 and CSS? Need a better understanding of UI design? This course builds on the skills gained on our stage 1 course. Learn to section a web page using strucural tags in HTML5. Learn to arrange and position HTML5 elements to create modern web page layouts using CSS.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Cosmology: a study of the UniverseCourse start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicA short introduction to the Universe in which we explore the Big Bang, the first stars and evolution of structure in the cosmos, ordinary and exotic matter and the future for the Universe. The course is taught by Radmila Topalovic, who holds a degree in Physics with Astrophysics and a PhD in Astrochemistry.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Social media for business: introduction Course start date: Thu 3 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julian HoldenThis practical course is aimed at people who would like to use social media marketing to promote their business. This class is ideal for those with some familiarity with social media. You will learn how social media can be used to communicate with your target audience.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - HTML5 & CSS: introduction (stage 1) Course start date: Sun 27 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Voula PapadopoulosHTML is the foundation language of web sites and web based apps. It's easy to learn and can help you to begin a career in tech, update web sites and content management systems, have a better understanding of UX/UI, gain skills for SEO and digital marketing, collaborate more effectively with developers and much more!Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Becoming confident with digital skills: file management and Windows 11 (beginner)Course start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you able to find the files you need on your PC or on your work's shared drive? Do you know how to search for
missing files? Have you got a system to organise your work or home files? Files are the essential components of
computer use and it is vital to manage them well, especially as cloud use becomes more common. On this course you will learn how to navigate Windows 10, essential to good file management, as well as discover more about files, become confident with the terminology and develop strategies for saving, organising, navigating and searching files of all types. You will also learn how to back up your files so you never lose them!
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £60.00 - Climate change: a brief introductionCourse start date: Thu 2 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gary RetallickWe 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.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00 - Becoming a confident online citizen: from bills, banking, and shopping to government services, job applications and streaming (foundation)Course start date: Thu 6 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Our day-to-day activities from banking to shopping to paying bills are increasingly online. This course will make sure you can do this confidently and safely. You will learn how to access and use different services such as banks, utilities, local authorities, the NHS, the benefits system and online retailers such as Amazon. You will work on how to compare different products, prices, and other options, as well as how to aware of possible scams. You will learn how to upload documents and images. And you will investigate some of the most useful sites for job seeking, finding reliable information and accessing streaming safely. You will do all of this while also remaining safe and secure online.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £35.00 - Publish your first book onlineCourse start date: Thu 6 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Christine RobertsonLearn how to publish your first book electronically on the Amazon Kindle and other e-book devices using an existing Word document. You will need good internet and file management skills and experience of using Microsoft Word.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00
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