Enhance your skills at Essex

Languages for All

Languages for All is an award-winning programme designed to open you up to a world of different language opportunities. Whether it’s taking your first step towards an international career, or to challenge yourself to something new, our language courses give you the opportunity to learn a language at no extra cost alongside your degree, enhance your employability skills and broaden your horizons.

Data Science

Our Data Science introductory course is designed to give all students, regardless of your previous experience or the subject you are interested in, valuable data skills. Skills such as using raw and unstructured data to determine trends, patterns and correlations. These skills are vital in all career sectors to help companies spot opportunities and negotiate risks, and help our graduates become more attractive in a booming job market.

Community Organising 

Our Community Organising short course equips you with the knowledge and skills necessary to create meaningful societal change. Are you passionate about addressing pressing issues of social justice within your community? Do you envision collaborating with external community-based organisations to tackle the contemporary challenges we all face? As a student, do you aspire to unite with your peers to affect positive change on issues directly affecting you? This course is built around providing you with the skills you may need to impact real change once you have graduated.

Health and Wellbeing

Health and Wellbeing considers some of the things which are known to impact an individual’s health and wellbeing. It ranges from:

• Level 1: a curation of well-known health information
• Level 2: a more detailed look at academic information
• Level 3: a more critical approach to knowledge and treatment

Academic skills

Our Skills for Success Team at Essex support you with everything you need to do well in your studies that is not directly related to your subject. This includes providing writing skills workshops, helping you improve your research and referencing skills, maths, statistics and digital skills, and much more. There is also a range of online materials and resources to help you, no matter what level you are at or what department you study in.