4.9k Affordable Short courses in United Kingdom

This Financial markets and the financing of organisations module from The Open University UK provides a grounding in the core areas of finance. You'll learn how to quantify risk and rewards associated with investments, as well as operationalise investment appraisal and construct portfolios of assets. 

This Professional Garden Design - Flexible Diploma from National Design Academy will teach you step by step the professional techniques required to create amazing designs for your own garden, or how to start your own garden design business or enter a new career in the industry.

Explore the many moons of our Solar System. Find out what makes them special and ask whether we send humans to our Moon again with the Moons course at The Open University by FutureLearn.

Learn how to effectively treat children’s dental issues and emergencies with Paediatric Dentistry for Non-Specialists at UCL delivered through FutureLearn.

Gain insight into antimicrobial resistance, learn about the threats it poses to wound care, and explore preventative measures with Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management at British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy offered at FutureLearn.

Film takes a starring role in this course exploring the emergence of a new medium that was set to capture the world's imagination with The Living Picture Craze - An Introduction to Victorian Film at FutureLearn and The British Film Institute (BFI) by FutureLearn.

Learn about health technology assessment (HTA) and quality of life (QoL), and how they’re used to decide which treatments to fund with Introduction to Health Technology Assessment at The University of Glasgow by FutureLearn.

Discover how advances in the field of genomics are transforming healthcare with MedTech - Exploring the Human Genome at University of Leeds delivered through FutureLearn.

Find out how to speak, write and understand basic words, phrases and dialogues in Irish with Irish 102 - An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture at Dublin City University by FutureLearn.

Learn how to become an effective pharmacy preceptor, exploring the qualities a great preceptor needs with Become a Pharmacy Preceptor at Taipei Medical University delivered through FutureLearn.

Discover how your favourite films make it to your local cinema or television screen, through the film distribution process with Film Distribution - Connecting Films with Audiences at Film Distributors Association by FutureLearn.

Understand the emerging discipline of translational medicine and the process of taking research from ‘benchside’ to ‘bedside' with Introduction to Translational Research - Connecting Scientists and Medical Doctors at Taipei Medical University delivered through FutureLearn.

Interpret medical literature through the principles of evidence-based medicine and apply them in clinical practice with  Evidence-Based Medicine in Clinical Pharmacy Practice at Taipei Medical University delivered through FutureLearn.

Discover the importance and the process of language testing during awake brain surgery with Language Testing During Awake Brain Surgery at University of Groningen by FutureLearn.

Discover how including health literacy in your professional practice can be used to reduce health inequalities Working with Patients with Limited Health Literacy at University of Groningen through FutureLearn.

Learn how pathogens cause infectious diseases, how these diseases are transmitted and how our immune systems respond to infection with Causes of Human Disease - Transmitting and Fighting Infection at University of Leeds by FutureLearn.

Discover an expanded view of editorial design in an open and experimental online environment with this short online course in Editorial Design Short Course at Royal College of Art, under the expert guidance of RCA tutors Adrian Shaughnessy and Astrid Stavro.

In the first week, professional actors will lead you through drama exercises designed to help develop creativity, spontaneity, freedom and authenticity in performance. Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts offers the Acting programme.

This Collecting Contemporary Art course at the University of the Arts London (UAL) is an introduction to the business of collecting contemporary art exploring various dimensions of how art is bought and sold.

This Acting for Beginners course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is designed to offer you a broad introduction to acting and to gently demystify the creative process