Learningworks Online Training

A Highlands and Islands website dedicated towards encouraging business success through skills and training is to offer the ability to purchase online courses for the first time, it was announced today.

While Learningworks has always acted as a portal for businesses and individuals accessing training, the website has now linked with three online training providers to provide web-based courses.

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise website has joined forces with MangoLearn, MyCourse and the UHI Millennium Institute, enabling people to complete the course of their choice through Learningworks.

Business management, customer service, bookkeeping, IT and rural development courses are among those that are now on offer from the Learningworks site at www.learning-works.co.uk.

To celebrate the launch of the new facility, the first 200 businesses or individuals from the Highlands & Islands who sign up to online MangoLearn courses available from Learningworks will also receive 60 per cent discount on the cost.

Through Learningworks, the MangoLearn courses are also able to offer e-mail, telephone and drop-in support as a result of a partnership with four learning centres – Skye and Lochalsh, Orkney College, Shetland College and SOS Training (Grantown on Spey).

HIE skills manager Jacqueline McGuigan said: “I am delighted to launch this new facility on the Learningworks site today.

“More and more businesses are becoming aware of the need to invest in new skills if they are to achieve success, and Learningworks is committed to make accessing training, including online courses, as easy as possible.

“We will continually develop Learningworks to ensure that it delivers an increasing range of skills courses which will benefit companies across the Highlands and Islands region.”

Further information is available at www.learning-works.co.uk .