Education, learning and skills

There are two distinct aspects to our education, learning and skills work: training our reps and ensuring they have the skills they need to be effective, and promoting members' personal and career development.

Our national education team runs the union's education programme, arranges funding for branch, section or regional training, and co-ordinates Unionlearn training for members. Our next few courses are shown below; for further courses, please see the full programme. Our education prospectus can help you find the Prospect training course that’s right for you.

Our learning and skills team supports and promotes learning and career development in your workplace by:

• drafting and delivering learning agreements
• supporting and organising learning agreements
• co-ordinating a network of union learning reps (ULRs)
• training and delivering one-to-one support to ULRs and providing them with a range of tools and resources
• identifying and writing bids for regional and national funding
• briefing branches and employers on the benefits of life long learning and ULRs
• providing advice on careers and personal development opportunities.

We believe that lifelong learning should be available to all, and that there should be governmental coherence on policies and decisions affecting investment in skills.

Forthcoming courses

See the full list of our forthcoming courses