Keele University Skills Bootcamps
Our Skills Bootcamps have been created to help you gain key sector-specific skills. They have been designed with input from employers and each Skills Bootcamp will be delivered by experts from Keele University and industry partners.
Skills Bootcamps are part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
Skills Bootcamps are for people either in employment or looking to upskill. Skills Bootcamps participants will also receive 'wrap around' support for career development.
Opportunity for those working in the sustainability sector to broaden their knowledge and play a part in driving climate action and the energy transition in their professional lives.
Place-based decarbonisation will be a key part of the net zero transition. Understand your role in bringing net zero to life in your community. Learn from our experts what place-based decarbonisation means for you and your organisation and visit leading demonstrator sites throughout the Midlands.
The Skills Bootcamps are part-funded by the Department for Education.
Employers will be required to fund between 10%-30% (£390-£1,170), depending on their size.
- Skills Bootcamps in Net Zero and Smart Energy Transition: 16 weeks and delivered predominantly online with two full days on Keele University campus. There is a four week option for those just wishing to take the Smart Energy Transition component and not the preceding 12 week Net Zero course.
- Skills Bootcamp in Place-Based Decarbonisation: 12 weeks (nine weeks online, three in-person visits to centres of excellence for place-based decarbonisation.
Skills Bootcamps are part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
They are part-funded, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer.
Skills Bootcamps are part-funded by the Department for Education. Organisations will be required to fund between 10%-30% of the cost, depending on their size.
