15 Courses

Most of our students come to us specifically to improve their speaking and listening skills and we help them to do this by using the Callan Method (see below for further details). BSGS is an accredited Callan Method school. We provide experienced and friendly teachers. Moreover, our prices are very competitive!

Do you dream of starting a career in art, design or media? Are you interested in doing a creative Undergraduate or Postgraduate degree? Are you curious about studying art at University level but need a bit more experience, a confidence boost or want to immerse yourself in a few new creative techniques before you start your degree? Join us on our free two-week Making Change course. This course has been designed to prepare you to start university, alongside building a portfolio and gaining support for your application. You will get an art school experience, and during the course you will get the chance to meet the lecturers for the subjects you are interested in studying. You will learn how to work with different painting and printing techniques, test your skills as a fine artist, and get hands-on with materials, all while building a portfolio. This course has been designed to support you commencing your Undergraduate or Postgraduate studies with Arts University Plymouth in September 2025 or 2026. “Honestly, I can't believe the course was only three weeks long. The connections we all made were genuine, positive and have created a new opportunity for me that I have been trying to achieve for the past 20 years without success!” MAKING CHANGE STUDENT, MARCH 2022 What will I learn? During the course you will make, discuss and experiment with materials and ideas, whilst preparing for entry onto one of our Undergraduate or Postgraduate courses. You will be supported in making an application, and you will improve your knowledge of the higher education sector. Are you a mature student? Did you know that 31% of students at Arts University Plymouth are mature students? We pride ourselves on being a creative environment for all ages. As well as support in completing your application, you'll be given advice and tips on how to prepare your portfolio, as well as comprehensive student finance advice. Previous graduates of our Making Change courses have gone on to study at degree level on subjects including Fashion, Textiles, Fine Art, Craft and Material Practices and Painting, Drawing & Printmaking, and across our range of postgraduate courses. What are the entry requirements for this course? You don’t need to have a portfolio prepared - you just have to bring your enthusiasm and meet the following criteria: At the start of the course I am between the ages of 18 - 70, I'm eligible to work in the UK (i.e. I have a National Insurance number), I am interested in studying at Arts University Plymouth in September 2025 or 2026. I want to explore higher education opportunities at an undergraduate or postgraduate level, I am eligible for at least two years of student funding or I am looking at self-funding a Higher Education course,* I am able to attend all six sessions (see dates below). *More information on whether you are eligible for financial support can be found at www.gov.uk/student-finance/who-qualifies. If you are unsure if you are eligible, we can discuss this with you once you have applied. When does this course run? This course takes place on campus at Arts University Plymouth with sessions from 10am to 3:30pm, every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday from 4th - 13th June 2025.

This advanced certification drills deep into the latest thinking to develop true digital marketing expertise. Course Overview This advanced certification drills deep into the latest thinking to develop true digital marketing expertise. Learn about Digital Strategy, CX, Search Marketing, Social Media, Leadership and more. Get world class, knowledge and insight: DMI EXPERT is our postgraduate level 140-hour course with an advanced, professional certification. It delivers breadth and depth of understanding of digital marketing and provides the learner with the digital and research skills to work at a management or strategic level. This certification is credit rated at level 11 on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework and awarded 120 credit points by the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority), which is comparable to a postgraduate diploma awarded by a UK university. Program learning outcomes and content: What Will I Learn? We give you the thinking and tools to become a leading player on the digital stage. Create powerful and dynamic digital strategy, and access modern, career-defining training covering all key digital marketing disciplines. Course Content: Social Media Marketing: Learn how to create engaging content on social media and how to plan, execute, optimize and report on social media marketing campaigns across the key social platforms. • Social Research • Social Content • Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest • Twitter • LinkedIn • YouTube & Social Video • Social Apps • Social Commerce & Affiliate Marketing • Social Customer Service • Social Strategy Strategy and Planning: Gain all the key skills and practices associated with planning a successful digital strategy. Everything from digital channels, marketing automation, budgeting, analytics and digital leadership. • Digital Communications v Traditional Communications • Marketing automation and CRM • Budget and Resourcing • Big Data & Analytics • Strategy Formulation and Plan • Digital Communications & Channels • Omnichannel tactics CX, eCommerce and CRO: Learn the key concepts underpinning website optimization, conversion rate optimization and effective e-commerce for every business requirement. Build highly effective user experiences for your customers. • Website Optimization • UX Research & Design • E-Commerce Strategy • Applied E-Commerce • Graphic Design Essentials for Marketers Search and Digital Channels: Plan, implement, refine and report on search marketing campaigns. Drive traffic across all digital channels. Taught directly by Neil Patel and DMI’s experts, you’ll gain knowledge from people who actually use these tactics in the field. • SEO Setup & Content • SEO Workshop • Paid Search & Display Advertising • Measurement with Google Analytics • Email Marketing Strategy • Applied Email Marketing • SEO for ecommerce Digital Selling: Recognize the value of social selling and incorporate digital techniques to better engage with customers and prospects to drive increased conversion rates. • Fundamentals of Social Selling • Finding & Targeting Prospects • Attracting Customers • Closing & Retaining • Increasing Engagement Essential Skills: Gain all the essential skills all marketers, professionals and business leaders need to work effectively, productively and professionally in a collaborative business environment. • Project Planning • Creativity Skills • Personal Skills • Working With Others Leadership and Management: Develop practical skills and techniques that you can use to think strategically, build effective teams, deal with conflict and crisis and persuade and influence others. • Thinking Strategically • Building Effective Teams • Dealing with Conflicts and Crises • Persuading and Influencing DURATION 52 Weeks WHATS INCLUDED Course Material Case Study Experienced Lecturer Refreshments Certificate

About this Training Course One of the main challenges for today's managers is effectively leading and successfully communicating vision that inspires employees to perform. Good leadership engages people and employees who feel both engaged and enabled contribute to higher levels of growth and productivity. They will remain longer with the organisation, perform better and ultimately deliver better service to your customers. This popular 3 full-day course will equip you with key skills that you can utilise to maximise your staff's performance in line with the company's objectives. This interactive course will also empower you with strategic approaches to overcome the people challenges that you may encounter while enabling you to optimise your business strategies successfully. An ILM Recognised programme. Training Objectives What are the benefits that you will gain from attending this course? * Enhance your personal effectiveness and decision-making * Learn how to boost your influencing capability * Inspire enthusiasm, motivation and commitment * Communicate effectively across a multi-cultural team * Nurture your relationships and strengthen your team * Develop an empowering partnership team culture Target Audience Who should attend this course? Anyone involved in leading a business unit or a project team can attend. It covers relationships with host governments, contractors, suppliers and local communities which constitute critical alliances for the development of a project. This course is essential for team leaders, supervisors or managers from the following functions: Project management engineers from various technical disciplines Ad-hoc or special project team leaders in legal, technical & financial disciplines Country managers or business development officers of contractors JV management executives or officers Government officials or industry liaison officers Procurement or contracts executives or officers   Trainer Your course leader is the author of Spirit IntelligenceTM and specialises in executive leadership facilitation and management development. He gained a first class honours degree in chemical engineering from Edinburgh University in Scotland and has undertaken postgraduate studies in psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Your course leader's corporate career spanned 14 years in Oil and Gas with BP, Amoco and AGL. Since 1993, he has worked across five continents with more than 170 clients including Rothschild, QBE, AT&T, Intel, Towers Perrin, Thomas Cook, Fujitsu, Nortel, Frank Russell, Electrolux, Arab Bank, Cable and Wireless, GSK, Merck, Sharpe and Dome, World Vision, Ericsson, IBM, Placer Dome Gold, Jim Beam, Ernst & Young and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He focuses on what he calls tapping The Hidden Advantage to unleash the power of the whole person - the power of the body and mind, the passion of the emotions and the enthusiasm, motivation, commitment, initiative, creativity, resilience and persistence of the spirit in business. He is very experienced internationally in both skills enhancement and the strategic facilitation of tough and intractable client challenges. His approach is pragmatic. He provides his clients with a powerful range of practical tools and approaches to enable management to tap The Hidden Advantage latent in their staff and achieve optimum performance and results. A powerful and compelling speaker, he combines humour, energy and passion. He draws on a wealth of personal experience and thorough research. POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations

CSIE staff and our associate trainers are knowledgeable and experienced in delivering talks and facilitating training for teachers, learning supporters, local authority officers, other professionals involved in young people’s education, parents and students. Our training is routinely praised for the level of interest and engagement it evokes, its positive and constructive impact, the clarity with which even complex issues are presented and the supportive manner in which participants are encouraged to examine their own beliefs and assumptions. CSIE training is competitively priced and offers excellent value for money. How CSIE can help your setting We can support the work of: schools, by providing speakers for assemblies, staff meetings and Continuing Professional Development days, as well as working with staff towards inclusive school development; universities, by delivering talks for undergraduate or postgraduate students, contributing to conferences (keynote address, panel discussion or other presentations), as well as working with staff towards the development of a more inclusive institution; local authorities, by facilitating Continuing Professional Development events, as well as working with staff towards the development of more inclusive education in the locality; central government in the UK and abroad, by working with relevant officers at national level towards the development of more inclusive education. CSIE is a registered charity heavily reliant on income generated from selling our resources and services. Our current rates for the above activities are: Half day rate £500 Whole day rate £800 All rates are subject to VAT; travel and subsistence expenses may also be charged. Special rates may be offered to smaller or voluntary sector organisations; please contact the CSIE office. Whether you want someone to talk to children and young people, to conference delegates or government officials, please email us at admin@csie.org.uk or click on the "Request Now" button to make an enquiry. Someone from CSIE will contact you within five working days to discuss how we can best respond to your request. Thank you for your interest in inclusive education and in CSIE.

About this VILT Tripod can be used in any area of business where the organisation has a management system in place to prevent unwanted events e.g., health, safety, environment, quality, security, productivity, project management, and many more Tripod Beta is one of several tools based on Tripod's fundamental principles. Tripod Beta is based on proven theories, man years of academic research, and testing in the workplace. The Swiss Cheese Model originated from this work. Features of the methodology are: 1) the Tripod Beta diagram; it provides an easy-to-read summary of the entire investigation on a single page, 2) it accommodates deficiencies in leadership and worker participation, 3) it accommodates deficiencies in human behaviour, and 4) it highlights missing controls (not just controls that failed). Quality throughout all aspects of Tripod is assured by the Stichting Tripod Foundation (STF) and the Energy Institute. The participants will gain a theoretical understanding of the Tripod Beta methodology and terminology. They will be able to read Tripod diagrams and reports, and be able to assist incident investigation/analysis as a team member. This is the first step to becoming an accredited silver or gold practitioner. Tripod Beta Practitioner Accreditation is meant to build these skills, through a blend of support, coaching and assessments. Feedback is provided on Tripod incident investigation reports, giving the Practitioner the opportunity to hone their skills and become confident in their ability to use Tripod effectively. Training Objectives Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Pass the Tripod Beta Practitioner (Bronze Level) exam Act as a team member or Tripod facilitator on an incident investigation Plan and schedule activities for an incident investigation Focus line of enquiry during an investigation Engage with the most relevant people at each stage of the investigation Describe the incident causation paths in terms that align with their management system Consider issues relating to leadership, worker participation and human behaviour Assess the quality of an incident report Apply the process to any type of unwanted event that should have been prevented by a management system e.g., health, safety, environment, financial, security, productivity, quality, project management etc. Combine the findings from many incidents with data from other initiatives e.g., audits and inspections, to spot trends to prioritise actions and product a single improvement plan Target Audience The course is recommended for anyone who is expected to play a role in designing, reviewing, auditing, and following your organizations OH&S management system. Successful participants will be awarded the Stitching Tripod Foundation Tripod Beta Bronze certificate. The following oil & gas company personnel will benefit from the knowledge shared in this course: CEO Team Leaders Legal, insurance and finance departments Managers (Line and Function) Maintenance Engineers Quality Assurance Engineers Process Engineers Incident Investigators (Team member & Tripod facilitator) Project Managers System Custodians Technical Authorities Key Contractor's Management Contract Managers/Holders Safety Representatives Risk Management Engineers HSE Advisors Supervisors Auditors Regulators Course Level Basic or Foundation Trainer Your expert course leader has over 30 years of experience in construction, operations and maintenance with the upstream exploration and production sector. He joined Shell International E&P in 1971 and for 28 years worked in several locations around the world. Following the Piper Alpha incident he led Shell's two year, £10M major overhaul of their permit to work system. He first made use of the Tripod Beta principles during this period and since then he has delivered over 100 Tripod Beta courses in more than 25 locations around the world. He is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and holds a postgraduate diploma from the University of Birmingham (UK). POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations

The MA Learning & Teaching in Creative Industries is perfect if you’re looking to enter into a teaching career for the first time. It’s also the ideal choice if you’re an experienced educator wanting to broaden your knowledge and skills within the field of creative arts education at Further Education and Higher Education levels. You’ll engage in critical and collaborative development as a creative educator and improve your skills and agency as a teacher, as well as literacy in educational research.

Osteopathic palpation of the involuntary mechanism and paediatric/developmental anatomy of the cranium, membranous/fascial & fluid systems Course Title: OCC Access Course Dates: 14, 15 and 22 September 2024 (minimum 6 contact hours per day) Location: OCC, Canopi Building 7 - 14 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4YR Osteopaths studying on our postgraduate courses need to have acquired hands-on skills beyond their undergraduate training. Our Access Course provides tailored training to introduce & nurture palpation of the involuntary mechanism and paediatric/developmental anatomy of the cranium, membranous/fascial & fluid systems to prepare less experienced osteopaths for further paediatric training. Our experienced faculty will deliver this 3-day course, which enables osteopaths to reach the required standard for entry onto the OCC courses and does not limit our osteopaths to any one technical style. These days can also be useful to osteopaths who want to refresh or enhance previously acquired skills & can be attended as individual days if space permits. Course Content: Day 1 - Saturday 14th September – Vault & base osteology, applied anatomy & motion – RTM & venous sinuses – Sacral /pelvic anatomy & motion Day 2 - Sunday 15th September – SBS patterns, theory & palpation – Fascia – Fluid – CNS Day 3 - Sunday 22nd September – Viscerocranium anatomy, osteology & motion – Principles of treatment – Intra oral techniques – Condylar parts osteology, applied anatomy & treatment All 3 days will be delivered in small groups to facilitate individual learning and needs. Most of the teaching will take place at the tables with very little lecture material & will include demonstrations interwoven with appropriate practical sessions. This is designed to deliver theory but in a very practical hands-on way. In order to provide this level of supervision numbers will be limited, and places are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis. For more info call 0208 875 5291 or email educationregistrar@occ.uk.com Cancellation Policy The OCC/FPO reserves the right to postpone this course if circumstances change. Eventbrite’s processing fee is non-refundable, so in the event that the course is cancelled by the OCC/FPO, all fees (excluding Eventbrite’s fee) will be refunded. Should circumstances mean that you have to cancel your place on this course, the OCC/FPO regrets to inform that no refunds can be given unless we are able to re-sell your place. Please note, the OCC/FPO does not accept responsibility for any expense you incur (such as travel and accommodation costs), so please do consider this before registration. occ.uk.com/continuing-professional-development The Osteopathic Centre for Children is the clinical arm of the Foundation for Paediatric Osteopathy. Registered Charity: 1003934

Effective report writing, the exchange of information, ideas, opinions and decisions between people at all levels, internally and externally, makes a vital contribution to organisational success.

Are you a graduate or an industry professional ready to take your career to the next level, develop a new specialism, or see your film idea or project realised? Our MA in Screen and Film Production could enable you to advance your career, develop and enhance your skillset, and align yourself with top industry professionals. Through research-based practice this new MA puts you and your aspirations at the centre of your learning, whilst refining your chosen specialist pathway.