These short courses improve your personal skills across the areas we know employers value most and help provide creative, sustainable solutions to economic challenges.
Biological Sciences Short Courses

All our lecturers are active in their research areas and bring their enthusiasm for their specialism into the class.

Business and Management Short Courses

These short courses provide creative, sustainable solutions to economic challenges. Improve your skills across the areas we know employers value most. Free #upskilling modules are currently available.

Education Short Courses

Taught by scientists in Psychology, this short course focuses on what creativity is, how it already exists in teaching the curriculum for excellence, and how it can be nourished to equip children with the best possible educational outcomes.

Health and Social Care Short Courses

We have a range of credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing short courses available for healthcare workers and allied health professionals.

Music Short Courses

A range of opportunities to learn from practicing performers, composers, conductors, music therapists, musicologists, song engineers and songwriters.

Sport and Exercise Sciences Short Courses

These courses take complex issues underpinned by world-leading research and condense them in to interactive and practical short courses.

Tourism, Hospitality, Festival and Events Management Short Courses

There is no better place to enhance tourism, hospitality and events management skills than in Edinburgh, the Festival City of the world.