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Skills Centre

Drop-ins, courses, online resources and 1:1 tutorials to help you succeed in your studies and beyond.

Join us at the next Language Café on 22 October

Skills development that fits flexibly around your timetable

Enhance your academic and career prospects through our workshops, courses, self-access resources, tutorials and drop-in sessions. Master academic and study skills, digital and GenAI, maths and statistics, languages, and essential workplace skills.


Academic Skills

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Part of the Skills Centre, we provide digital and academic skills support to all students.

Foreign Languages

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We offer courses throughout the academic year to build your language skills, develop your intercultural competence, and maximise your career prospects.

Developing digital skills

Access our online resources at a time and a pace that suits you, to develop the digital skills you need in your studies and employment.


Developing your digital skills is part of getting settled into university and becoming more confident in managing your studies.

UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week unites educators, researchers and policymakers to explore AI’s impact on education under “Facts, Frictions, Frontiers”.

Build your digital identity before graduation: showcase skills, manage your online presence, use AI responsibly and demonstrate professionalism.

Applying digital accessibility to coursework builds digital literacy, enhances inclusion and employability by making content usable for all users.

Employability and Student Success


The Skills Centre is an integral part of the Employability and Student Success directorate. We work closely with colleagues in Careers, placements, and Enterprise to ensure all students are given the best opportunity to fulfil their potential at university and beyond.

Read more about Employability and Student Success
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Academic & Employability Skills blog

Tips, reflections, and advice from our staff to help you develop your academic and employability skills. We've picked some of our favourites here - click the button to read everything.


Learning to adapt to this uncertainty is an important part of becoming professionally effective.

Learning at university is different from learning at school, and that transition can feel difficult at first. So how do you learn maths without a maths teacher?

Developing your digital skills is part of getting settled into university and becoming more confident in managing your studies.

Moving to the UK can bring unexpected culture shock, even when it feels familiar. Discover how small everyday differences take time, patience, and self-kindness

UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week unites educators, researchers and policymakers to explore AI’s impact on education under “Facts, Frictions, Frontiers”.

Critical thinking is highly valued by employers, yet many graduates lack it in the workplace. This blog explores practical ways to think more critically at work

Unihub


Unihub is your one-stop-shop for everything you need to develop your study and employability skills, and discover opportunities to put those skills to the test. Use MySkills to find and book the right skills development opportunities for you, My Employability Profile to show employers what you've done, and MyFuture to find vacancies and work experience opportunities.

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What's new

Read our latest announcements and updates on our services.


Upcoming events

Join us at our upcoming workshops and focus groups.


In this session, you’ll sharpen your understanding of spelling, punctuation and grammar so your writing is clear, correct and professional.

This workshop takes a hands on approach to understanding how to analyse titles by identifying instruction words, topic, focus and scope.

Join Language Skills for a free screening of Trois Amies (Three Friends) on Wednesday 28 October, 6pm to 8pm (doors open from 5:30pm).

Learn effective search strategies and AI tools to help you in your research.

Explore what makes an email effective, how to write appropriately for different audiences, and how to manage your inbox so it works for you, not against you.

Understand how meetings work, how to contribute confidently, and how to handle common challenges so you can make your voice heard and your time count.

About us

The Skills Centre is overseen by Helen Stringer, Director of Employability & Student Success.

Our Heads of Teams are:

  • David Busby, Head of Digital & Academic Skills
  • Dr Emma Cliffe, Head of the Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
  • Claire Charlemagne, Head of Languages

Contact us

If you have any questions about skills development opportunities, please get in touch via email.