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Additional Skills

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Our Additional Skills Training programme will boost your CV and make you more employable. In a competitive job market, it’s vital that when you graduate you have more on your CV than just your degree. In addition to our standard transferable skills sessions, we work closely with your University course teams to deliver a co-curricular programme that will make you stand out.

We try to make sure there is something for everyone, with all sessions being completely free, courtesy of The Big Deal - so get involved and gain a new skill for your CV. If you don’t see something that takes your fancy, get in touch and let us know what skills you would like to develop. To see the full list of what's available, have a scroll below. For more information or to suggest something new, please email sutraining@bnu.ac.uk.

Upcoming in-person events

Basic IT Skills for Beginners Basic IT Skills for Beginners
15th September - 12th December
Nottingham
Choose from the several Basic IT Skills for Beginners courses
Training | Nottingham
Emergency First Aid Training POSTPONED: Emergency First Aid Training POSTPONED
1st-31st October
Nottingham Campus, Room TBC
1-Day Emergency First Aid at Work Course (EFAW)
Training | Nottingham
Activities Takeover
20th October
The Atrium
Come along and try some activities.
Training | Sport for Fun | Volunteering | Recreational Activities | Sport | Societies | Green Initiative | Give it a Go Week | Student Leaders | International students | Community
Thames Valley Air Ambulance Open Day
24th October
Thames Valley Air Ambulance - Stokenchurch
Training | Volunteering | Recreational Activities | Give it a Go Week | Raise and Give | Community
Emergency First Aid
28th October
Room N3.01, High Wycombe
Training
Mental Health in Sport
29th October
N1.07, High Wycombe
Training
Employability Drop-in
3rd November
Room N3.01, High Wycombe
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Wellbeing Skills for Student Leaders
5th November
N2.06, High Wycombe
Training | Student Leaders
The Courage to Begin Again From Pharmaceutical Executive to Award-Winning Tea Room Founder: The Courage to Begin Again [ NEST/STRIVE ]
8th November
Nottingham Campus, Room TBC
This session is part of NEST/STRIVE 2026
Training | Nottingham
Career Ready Career Ready: Upskilling, Personal Branding & Portfolio Building [ NEST/STRIVE ]
9th November
Nottingham Campus, Room TBC
This session is part of NEST/STRIVE 2026
Training | Nottingham
Stop Hate
12th November
Room N3.06, High Wycombe
Training | Sport | Societies
Employability Drop-in
19th November
Room N3.02, High Wycombe
Training
Employability Drop-in
2nd December
N1.07, High Wycombe
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Emergency First Aid
3rd December
Room N3.07, High Wycombe
Training
Employability Drop-in
12th January
Room N3.02, High Wycombe
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
28th January
N2.01, High Wycombe
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
9th February
N3.01, High Wycombe
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
24th February
TBC
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
9th March
TBC
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
22nd April
TBC
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
19th May
TBC
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
2nd June
TBC
Training | Freshers' Fortnight
Employability Drop-in
15th June
TBC
Training | Freshers' Fortnight

Online training

There is no current training

In addition, the following free online resources offer training in a vast array of subjects such as health care, languages, finance and much, much more.

Alison – free online courses from the worlds leading expert.   

Open Learn – free learning from The Open University.

LinkedIn – LinkedIn Learning are offering a free months trial to access all of their online developmental content.

Code Academy – from building websites to analysing data, Code Academy can help you make it happen with their free trial.

TedEd – video based lessons organised by subject.

Excel Easy – easy to follow and fully illustrated online Excel tutorials.

STUDENT EXCLUSIVE £109 WHEN YOU SPEND £20 CODE: ST

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