For small, medium and large employers KnowledgeEast partners provide a wide variety of business-focussed training and short courses to suit most business needs.
Goldsmiths, University of London
Through our Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship [ICCE}, we offer a selection of short courses aimed at those who are looking to set up a creative business, or already have one but who have identified an area of specific training need. In time it will be possible to follow a series of these short courses and collect credits towards a Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma, or towards the MA, in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship. We are also able to tailor courses to the specific requirements of an individual business that is looking for Professional Development opportunities for its staff.
e-mail Aidan Sheridan or telephone 020 7078 5069
London Metropolitan University
In addition to the London Financial Academy, London Metropolitan University now has a training and teaching facility at Canary Wharf. Users can attend a range of post graduate and qualification programmes and short course including: Continuing Professional Development training, English Language, legal practice, corporate social responsibility, finance and compliance courses. London Met also houses the Centre for Micro-Enterprise: providing training, mentoring and support for new and early-start businesses, including older women entrepreneurs.
e-mail Matthew Connelly or telephone 020 7749 4843
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary provides access to entrepreneurship training and development courses in partnership with Simfonec. Simfonec is a world-class evidence based science entrepreneurship centre orchestrating the delivery of science ideas to the commercial market place.
Queen Mary is also a partner in the newly established London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise (LCACE). Based at Somerset House, in the heart of the centre will aim to engender a culture of innovation through enterprise teaching in arts and humanities courses across the partner institutions.
Contact Chris Pugmire on 020 7882 7001 email Chris Pugmire
Through Theatre Futures Rose Bruford provides professional facilities, services and courses for anyone working in the theatre and the creative industries. Rose Bruford College is unique as it is the only HEI providing the complete range of vocational training and education for the theatre and its related industries. Theatre Futures provides short or tailor made courses, professional facilities and services for anyone working in the theatre and its related fields.
Contact Kieron Vanstone on 07917 044364 or email Kieron Vanstone
The Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy offers a comprehensive rolling programme of training and CPD for television, film and media professionals spanning all the skills required for standard and high definition production, post production and engineering, multi-platform, interactive, business planning and everything else today’s television and media practitioners need to Excel. In partnership with Academy Class, we also offer a number of software training packages taught by highly experienced trainers at locations throughout the UK.
Contact Claire Selby on 020 8289 4900 EXT: 8284 or email Claire Selby
Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban offers a programme of professional development and training opportunities targeted at the performing arts industry as well as a range of short and summer courses.
Contact Peter Owens 020 8305 4316email Peter Owens
University of East London
At UEL we champion lifelong learning and offer a growing range of short courses designed to inspire and inform or act as a springboard for further study. You can brush up your IT skills, develop your own website, discover psychology or improve your management technique. We also run Financial management training for SMEs under our ‘Be your own boss’ initiative.
To see our full range of short courses go to: http://www.uel.ac.uk/uelconnect/short_courses/ Or
contact Martin Longstaff on 020 8223 7646 or email Martin Longstaff
The University of Greenwich offers a range of short courses to suit a variety of needs. These include Continuing Professional Development courses, management accreditation (including NVQ levels 3 and 4), and specially designed packages in areas such as computing, business and management, biosciences, health, architecture, construction, engineering and education.
Contact on 020 8331 9549 or email M.J.Davies
London South Bank University
LSBU offers a range of short courses to suit a variety of needs from building services engineering to languages, food & sustainable energy. Courses are run in many areas of the University’s expertise meeting the requirements of a wide range of organisations, large and small, from all sectors. Our comprehensive programme is of relevance both to the individual wishing to improve their own knowledge and to the organisation keen to develop their staff and provide them with new ideas and skills.
Contact Sarah Priestman on 020 7815 6906 or email Sarah Priestman
