Skills Bootcamps across East Midlands.
Do you need to upskill your workforce or kick start your Learning and Development Strategy across your organisation? Funded Skills bootcamp could be a good start. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-a-skills-bootcamp/east-midlands
University of Derby are offering European Social Funded short courses.
All of their European Social Funded programmes are available to employees in all eligible small and medium enterprises across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (D2N2 region), including paid employees of charities.
There is no cost to participants and you can enrol as many team members as you like.
Contact Derby at [email protected], or call 0800 001 5500.
University of Leicester
Leicester are reaching out to UK Medtech, Healthtech and Biotech sector companies to better understand training and skills needs.
At University of Leicester, School of Engineering, they are developing exciting new IET/IPEM accredited degree courses in Biomedical Engineering (undergraduate and postgraduate) with modules ranging from biomedical materials through to prosthetics, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, biological imaging, digital healthcare, machine learning and AI.
There are large skills shortages in this sector and they are keen to understand what skills and domain specific knowledge is valued most in new technology/science related staff entering organisations.
They will also be looking for partners for degree placements, potential research projects, degree apprenticeships partners and avenues for graduate careers.
Please complete their questionnaire (approx. 10 mins, based on Google Forms but you should not need to sign in or have a Google account:
Biomedical Engineering Graduate skills questionnaire (google.com)
Why Leicester?
- One of the largest NHS trusts in the country. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,
- University of Leicester has a large established medical school with wide clinical expertise,
- School of Engineering has a long history in biomedical engineering research – potential to cover the breadth of materials and surfaces, control, ML, signal processing, computational modelling, cell engineering,
- Their mission statement on inclusion and ‘school of choice’ biomedical engineering.
Help to Grow: Management – Nottingham University Business School
Help to Grow: Management is a business support course which helps senior leaders from small and medium-sized businesses to learn skills and strategies for resilience and growth.
This practical management course has been developed by the Small Business Charter in partnership with world-class business schools. It is delivered by business leaders and academic experts with real-world experience of business issues.
The 12-week course includes 50 hours of in-depth training and is 90% subsidised by the government so costs participants £750. You can take part around your existing work commitments and access learning through a blend of online and face-to-face sessions.
