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University Partnerships: Skills, Employability & Professional Development

Build employer-relevant capability across your university, strengthen graduate career readiness and expand professional and executive education with an accredited, flexible training partner.

Flexible training partnerships for students, apprentices, university staff and employer clients.

Partnerships designed around your priorities
  • Professional qualifications
  • Specialist CPD
  • Employer-aligned learning
  • Flexible delivery
A flexible training partner

Partner with Training Creatively

Training Creatively is the trading brand of Creative Consulting and Training Ltd, a UK-based professional training organisation established in 2012. We work with universities to deliver recognised professional qualifications, specialist continuing professional development (CPD), and bespoke learning programmes for students, apprentices, university staff and employer clients.

Your university retains ownership of its academic provision, quality assurance, student relationships and employer strategy.

Partnership outcomes

What Your University Can Achieve

Develop learner, staff and employer capability with programmes shaped around your university's priorities.

Enhance graduate employability

Complement academic awards with relevant professional credentials and practical workplace skills.

Develop university staff

Upskill leadership, digital, transformation, project and professional-services teams.

Grow executive education

Extend short-course and employer-funded provision through co-branded or white-label delivery.

Strengthen degree apprenticeships

Add aligned qualifications, specialist masterclasses and applied workshops to work-based learning.

Respond to employer needs

Co-design bespoke programmes for local industries, employer partners and alumni.

Measure programme value

Review participation, assessments, learner feedback and practical application.

Ways to collaborate

Four Flexible University Partnership Models

Choose a starting point based on your learner groups, workforce priorities and employer relationships.

01

Professional Credentials & Student Employability

Add optional or integrated certification pathways alongside undergraduate and postgraduate study, supported by exam preparation, practical workshops and employer-relevant applications. Academic credit or module integration remains subject to university approval.

02

University Staff Capability & CPD

Build role-based development pathways for professional services, IT and digital teams, project offices, governance functions, university leaders and change teams—with accredited or bespoke options.

03

Executive Education & Employer Programmes

Co-design and deliver short courses, employer cohorts, alumni learning and executive programmes under an agreed co-branded or white-label model. Commercial and delivery arrangements are tailored to each brief.

04

Degree Apprenticeship Enrichment

Support existing apprenticeship provision with relevant professional qualifications, masterclasses and applied learning, aligned to programme objectives and employer requirements.

Accredited and bespoke learning

Specialist Training Areas

We can combine accredited pathways and bespoke, non-accredited training across:

Project and Programme Delivery

APM PFQ/PMQ, PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, portfolio and benefits management.

Digital Services, AI and Agile Delivery

ITIL, SIAM, DevOps, AgilePM, AI essentials and AI governance.

Business Analysis and Change

BCS Business Analysis, requirements engineering, process modelling and change management.

Governance, Risk and Cyber

AI Governance, COBIT, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT and cyber governance.

Bespoke Professional Practice

Stakeholder engagement, leadership, team effectiveness and university- or employer-specific capability needs.

Specific qualifications, exams and delivery formats are agreed against current accreditation, licensing and course availability.

A clear delivery process

How We Work: Start Small, Demonstrate Value, Scale

We establish your priority audience and outcomes, select an accredited or bespoke solution, deliver through an agreed format, and evaluate results before recommending a wider roll-out.

01 / DISCOVER

Define audience and outcomes

02 / DESIGN

Select and shape the solution

03 / DELIVER

Run the agreed programme

04 / EVALUATE

Review results and next steps

A practical first step

University Capability Accelerator

Start with a fixed-scope, paid pilot for around 8–20 participants. A typical pilot combines one certification pathway or bespoke programme, an applied workshop, learner support, feedback and a short outcomes-and-scale review.

Delivery can be virtual, on campus, blended or supported by eLearning, with weekday or evening/weekend options where available.

Discuss a pilot programme
Capability and delivery

Why Training Creatively?

We aim to complement university academic expertise with practical, coordinated professional training and clear programme reporting.

Experience working through UK public-sector purchasing channels is subject to relevant framework eligibility and current supplier status.
  • Multi-accredited training capability across established professional and awarding-body schemes
  • Choice of accredited qualifications and tailored, non-accredited training
  • Flexible delivery that complements rather than replaces university academic expertise
  • Clear cohort scoping and programme coordination
  • Outcome reporting and learner feedback
  • Specialist trainers and approved resources where applicable
Let's identify your first opportunity

Build Skills, Employability and Professional Development

Whether you are planning a student credential pathway, staff development programme, degree apprenticeship enhancement or employer-facing executive course, we can help you shape a practical starting point.

Discuss your audience, delivery model, indicative cohort size, procurement needs and success measures.

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