Skills Pathway Programme
Boost your career and add value to your organisation on this fully funded training programme with mentorship support from industry experts.
Drive your career forward
UWE Bristol’s Skills Pathway Programme is fully funded. It offers you a flexible way to develop the skills needed to drive your career and business forward. You will focus on the challenges and opportunities you currently experience at work, enabling you to develop new skills while adding value to your organisation and boosting economic growth in your region.
See the impact of your learning in your organisation right away and be guided by industry experts throughout.
About the programme
You can select as few as one or two short modules from a menu of topics accessible through four flexible skills development pathways. Each pathway is designed to help individuals take advantage of workplace opportunities, utilise new technologies and tackle real-life work-based challenges. Once you’ve registered, we’ll help you select your modules depending on your availability, thereby building a development programme which will be tailored to fit your needs and commitments. All learners will also access a short induction module which will help identify your training needs and set you on the pathway to success.
Learning methods will vary between online self-study, tutor-led sessions and one-to-one mentorship. Self-study will take from three to six hours per module and will be followed by a full day interactive session on campus or online with an industry expert to look at practical application of the material you have covered. Once all selected modules are completed, you will be eligible for up to five hours with a mentor who will be matched to you and your needs by the Learner Engagement Lead.
The combination of needs assessment, training and mentorship has been carefully designed to allow you to take advantage of opportunities and tackle real-world challenges at work.
At the end of the programme, you will be awarded the UWE Bristol digital badge to showcase your achievement. Depending on your development plans, you may wish to progress your learning and take it to the next level through further training or activities.
Our pathways
Explore the range of pathways and learn more about the modules so you can pick the ones that best suit you and your organisation.
Digital and intelligent technologies
Aimed at individuals in the engineering and manufacturing sectors who wish to develop their skills to support the integration of digital and intelligent technologies in the workplace.
Sustainability
Aimed at individuals in the construction industries and built environment sector, learn how to deploy retrofit practices and technologies, through the lens of PAS 2035, to become more sustainable.
Collaborative working
Aimed at individuals working in the legal sector, learn how to enhance your team and client collaboration and expand your knowledge of digital tools and office-based technologies.
Leadership
Aimed at individuals in a leadership or management position from all sectors (manufacturing, engineering, construction or legal) to improve leadership and people management skills and drive change in areas such as sustainability, inclusivity and digital working.
How we support you
The Skills Pathway Programme focuses on supporting you to address your specific requirements while fitting around your work and life commitments.
Learner Engagement Lead
There will be an initial discussion with our Learner Engagement Lead to identify the opportunities and challenges you face to ensure you get the most out of the programme. In this meeting, we'll agree on some objectives so we can work towards your individual and organisational priorities.
The Learner Engagement Lead will be with you every step of the way, offering advice and supporting you with the development of a bespoke action plan to set you on the path to career success.
Flexible modular training
Our training options span over 20 different subject areas ranging from leading sustainable change through to applied AI in engineering, and are all delivered to fit around your existing commitments. You will learn through online self-study, available 24/7, tutor-led sessions linking you with industry experts, as well as studying with peers both in and outside of your sector.
Mentoring
A key part of the Skills Pathway programme is our mentoring sessions, that offer you access to up to five hours of specialist one to one support with a sector expert. These sessions will support you to apply your new expertise to overcome the challenges you face in the real-world business environment.
Eligibility
You can apply to take part in the programme if you:
- live in the West of England (Bath and North-East Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire)
- work for an SME organisation in the manufacturing, engineering, construction or legal sector.
We especially welcome applications from individuals who are underrepresented in these industries, including women and black and ethnic minority groups.
Register now
Please complete our expression of interest form to find out more and register for the programme.
Drop-in sessions
We will be running regular drop-in session to give you the chance to find out more about this programme and the modules offered.
Funding
UWE Bristol are working in partnership with the West of England Combined Authority to deliver the Mayoral Priority Skills Fund. This fund provides a flexible grant to meet current priority skills gaps in the region and is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding the Skills Pathway Programme, please email the Workforce Skills team at workforceskills@uwe.ac.uk or call +44 (0)117 32 81637.