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Prospectus · Academic catalogue

Each programme teaches one practice, properly.

Read a programme in full before enquiring. Every page sets out who it is for, what it covers week by week, how work is answered, and what the certificate does and does not mean.

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01Written practice

Technical & Documentation Writing

Writing procedures, reference material and internal documentation that colleagues can actually follow under pressure.

Adults who write documentation as part of a wider role, including engineers, operations staff, analysts, support leads and subject specialists who were never formally taught to write for readers under time pressure.

Length
Eight weekly sessions.
Delivery
Live online cohort
Entry
No prior qualification
Equations and working written in chalk across a blackboard.

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02Quantitative reasoning

Data Literacy for Non-Analysts

Reading, questioning and presenting quantitative evidence without pretending to be a statistician.

Managers, coordinators, policy and communications staff who receive dashboards and reports, must act on them, and want to interrogate them properly.

Length
Six weekly sessions.
Delivery
Live online cohort
Entry
No prior qualification
A group working around a table with laptops, notes and a planning wall behind them.

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03Operating practice

Project Delivery Foundations

The scheduling, sequencing and communication habits that keep multi-party work moving.

People who have inherited responsibility for delivery without a delivery title, including team leads, senior specialists and coordinators managing dependencies across functions.

Length
Eight weekly sessions.
Delivery
Live online cohort
Entry
No prior qualification
A person speaking to a colleague joining a live session on screen from a desk.

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04Spoken practice

Facilitation & Spoken Explanation

Running a meeting that reaches a decision, and explaining complex work out loud so it lands.

Adults who chair meetings, brief senior stakeholders, teach colleagues or present technical work, and want practised method rather than personality.

Length
Six weekly sessions.
Delivery
Live online cohort
Entry
No prior qualification

Scope of the prospectus

These four are the whole prospectus. We do not list programmes we are not currently teaching, and we do not publish subject lists to look larger than we are. If none of them fits the work you need to improve, write and say so; we will tell you honestly whether we are the right institute.