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Improve your confidence.
Better your future.

Skills & Learning provide rewarding and enjoyable learning courses in Dorset to improve your confidence, wellbeing and take your skills to the next level.

Since 2013, we have worked with over 33,500 learners to provide a meaningful and worthwhile learning experience. We pride ourselves on our service and offer many benefits to our learners, including support throughout the course and enrichment opportunities to enhance your learning.

Learning with us

Over 25 subject areas to choose from

We offer so much, from Arts & Crafts courses to help you be creative or start a new side hustle, to Maths & English courses to help you gain vital skills for your career. Choose from courses to help you gain qualifications, let your creativity flourish, or gain skills to use everyday – the choice is yours! Explore our subjects today.

Adult Education Inspiration

Check out our latest blog posts below for inspiring learner stories, news, and much more.

From Confidence to Careers: How Coaching Can Transform Lives – A Chat with Katie from SkillUp

At Skills & Learning, our mission goes far beyond courses and classrooms — it’s about empowering people to take the next step, whatever that may be. One of the driving…

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Local Partnership Secures Work for Construction Sector Career Changers

A new partnership between Skills and Learning Adult Community Education (ACE), Whitehead Ross Education and Consulting (WRE), and Wates Construction successfully delivered…

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From Passion to Profession: Sophie’s Journey with Digital Photography

When Sophie first came across a leaflet advertising the Digital Photography Beginners: Step 1 & Step 2 course with Skills and Learning, she had no idea how much it would c…

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