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Work & Employment > Learn new skills (the links below will take you online)
Contact an educational organisation
	London Colleges This is the website of the Association of Colleges, London. It’s a lively and accessible site that aims to give lots of information to encourage Londoners to carry on learning. You can search for courses or colleges.
	School Search Speedy access to information to about schools throughout the UK. You can quickly and easily get an overview of how each school stands in the league tables, and get their Ofsted report.
	UCAS - Institutions This is part of the UCAS website. It is an excellent, up to date page listing all the higher education and further education colleges in the UK. You can find colleges and their websites through the map or the alphabetical list.
Find out about courses
	Basic Skills The website of the national organisation for basic skills. It has news about developments in the field of literacy, numeracy and English for speakers of other languages. Also gives the number you can ring to find courses and resources in your area.
	Hot Courses This is a searchable database of a huge range of courses, short or long, full or part time, degree and HND. It is a very thorough site for finding courses in colleges and universities all over the UK, as long as they have registered with ‘Hot Courses.’
	Worktrain This is UK online’s national jobs and learning site. There is a searchable database for finding out information about certain types of jobs, job availability, and associated training courses. Some areas are informative, but others have very few links.
Get a qualification
	National Academic Recognition Information Centre On this site, you can find out how to compare your professional qualifications from abroad with those in the UK. A very useful service for an increasingly global workplace.
	Prospects This is the UK's official graduate careers service. You can access a wide range of services online including careers advice and help with finding jobs, postgraduate courses and work experience. Worth registering as lots of employers also view the site.
	The Guardian - Education This is the part of the Guardian Education site that has a database of postgraduate courses and MBA’s. You can search by keyword, subject and region to find what you want.
	The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority If you want to find out more about qualification frameworks generally, from GCSE’s and GNVQs to higher level qualifications, this is the site. It shows links to its partners in Wales and Northern Ireland.
	UCAS - Courses The Universities and Colleges Admissions service for the UK. This is the page that will take you to up-to-date information about degree and HND level courses throughout the UK
Get advice about learning new skills
	Careers-UK This is the website of the Careers Service National Association website. On this site you can find out the contact details of your nearest careers office, so you can contact them for advice. Some careers services are now part of the Connexions Service.
	Learning and Skills Council The LSCs are responsible for funding and planning education and training for over 16s in England. You can learn about new initiatives and trends. On this site you can find the contact details of your local LSC.
	Learning and Skills Gateway This part of the DfES website is the Learning and Skills Gateway. There are links to loads of useful websites and lots of relevant information and organisations, all of which are aimed at helping you improve your education and skills.
	The Site - New Deal This part of ‘the site’ is all about the government’s New Deal stategy. New Deal aims to give jobseekers a chance to train for work and get work experience, with the assistance of a personal adviser.
Learn at distance or online
	Distance Learning Course Finder This is an international site which claims to be the world’s largest international online directory of e-learning courses. It contains over 55,000 distance learning courses searchable in a number of ways.
	International Centre for Distance Learning This is an internationally-recognised centre for research, teaching, consultancy, information and publishing activities based in the UK Open University. An easily searchable database of distance learning courses on a huge range of subjects.
	Learn Direct Learn Direct is a good place to find information about a wide range of online learning opportunities. You can find out how and where you can study, get advice on choosing the right course and get business advice. A useful site with lots to offer.
	Linguaphone This is the best known provider of flexible, multi-media language courses to help you learn a language in your own time. Choose from a huge range of languages.
	Open University Find out all about the Open University on this site. There are degree subjects to choose from, as well as short introductory courses, and post-graduate qualifications. You can study with support without sacrificing work and family commitments.
	The National Extension College One of the original and biggest providers of distance learning in the UK. You can study for GCSE’s and ‘A’ levels as well as professional courses or special interests such as creative writing. You can pay in instalments and choose how long you take.
	The Open College of the Arts This is a well known provider of Arts courses by distance learning. You can study subjects such as Art and Design, Dance, Painting and Writing. You have personal contact with a tutor, but also study in your own time. Assignments are sent in by post.
Learn at work
	Campaign for Learning - Learn at Work This page contains a great set of resources available on the internet for studying a range of topics at work. Build up your skills in tolerance and empathy, time management and problem solving.
	The Biz This is a business to business service. It has a useful alphabetical list of companies offering training at work on a huge range of subjects.

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