Training partners
Partners & accreditations
Overview
What you cover
Whose curriculum you are actually learning
We are an authorised training partner for these vendors. That means the course materials, the labs and the exam objectives come from them, not from us — we deliver them, and we are held to their standards to keep the accreditation.
Awarding organisations
Who awards the qualification
Our apprenticeships are awarded by independent organisations on the national register for each standard. They set the assessment and issue the certificate, which is what makes it mean the same thing to every employer in the country.
Accredited & partnered with
The names on your certificate
Every course here leads to a credential awarded by one of these organisations, not by us. Pick one to see what it opens up.
Cisco Networking Academy
CompTIA
EC-Council
ISC2
IT Specialist
Microsoft
PMI
VMware
Awarding organisations
They set the assessment and issue the certificate. They are independent of us, which is precisely what makes the qualification worth something to your next employer — we cannot pass our own learners.
01City & Guilds
An awarding body for 150 years, at the forefront of global workforce skills development.
02NCFE
The Northern Council for Further Education. Established in 1981 and recognised by Ofqual as a registered awarding organisation, with over forty years of experience.
03BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Established in 1957, with over 70,000 members in 150 countries and more than sixty-five years delivering IT certifications.
04Pearson VUE
Established in 1994. Delivers 21 million exams a year across 5,500 test centres in over 180 countries.
05Certiport
Founded in 1997 by Pearson VUE. A leading provider of foundation-level IT and digital literacy certifications.
06CIMA
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, founded in 1919 — the largest and oldest management accounting body in the world.
4 organisations
Technology partners
Their curriculum, their labs, their exam objectives. We are authorised to deliver it and we are held to their standards to keep that authorisation — which is the difference between a course about a technology and the course its makers wrote.
01Amazon Web Services
Established in 2006. The global leader in cloud services, delivering high-quality IT training certifications.
02Cisco Networking Academy
Established in 1997. Has reached 20 million learners in 190 countries through its skills-to-jobs programme.
03Microsoft Learn Academy
Established in 2018. Interactive training in Microsoft’s own platforms and tooling.
04TP-Link Learn & Training Centre
Established in 1996. Hands-on, interactive training delivered on TP-Link’s own equipment.
4 organisations
Accreditors and quality bodies
Organisations that assess us rather than our learners: they inspect how the centre is run, and their accreditation is a judgement on us.
01The CPD Certification Service
Established in 1996 and present in over 100 countries. Grants continuing professional development accreditation to our centre.
02The Digital College
Established in 2011. Designs, develops and delivers accredited online vocational training courses.
03NC Group
Established in 2017. A workforce development partner delivering Ofsted “Outstanding” apprenticeships in health and safety, engineering and construction.
04Pitman Training
Established in 1837 by Sir Isaac Pitman. Over 185 years in business and more than a million courses completed worldwide.
3 organisations
Clinical and public sector
Not IT, and worth saying so plainly: these relationships sit behind the clinical and public-sector training the academy also delivers.
01The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
A registered charity and the global membership body for paediatricians.
02The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Established in 1967. Supports world-class education in emergency medicine.
03NHS
Established in 1948. Provides extensive training and education programmes for clinical and non-clinical roles.
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