Computing, Bookkeeping and Business Courses at York Learning

York Learning’s digital skills courses offer you an accessible and flexible way to improve your skills, whether you’re just getting started or exploring advanced skills.Many of these courses are free if you earn less than £25,750 a year or receive a means tested benefit such as Universal Credit.

A learner in a digital skills class, sitting at a laptop and reading a page of guidance notes next to her on the desk.

IT Basics

Get started with free introductory courses, and learn how to safely use computers to find information and communicate.

Digital Qualifications

Gain the digital skills required for everyday use in life and work. Be confident using the internet, communicating, and creating and editing documents.

Digital Skills for Work and Life Development

Courses and qualifications with a specific focus – from AAT financial qualifications and business qualifications to cyber security, information security, AI, laptops, tablets, computer aided design, online safety and digital legacy.

York Learning’s digital skills courses offer you an accessible and flexible way to improve your skills, whether you’re just getting started or exploring advanced skills.

Qualifications range from Entry Three to Level Two, with Level Two often considered the national benchmark for demonstrating digital skills for the workplace. 

If you’re interested our digital qualification courses, you’ll start by meeting a tutor for a personalised skills check to make sure that you’re on the best course for you. You can study in centres across York, or remotely, at a pace to suit you. We understand what it’s like to just be starting out with IT, or feel you don’t know enough about it, and know how to help you make progress, get a professional qualification and support you get to where you want to be. You can use our courses to develop your IT skills, improve and validate your confidence and gain globally recognised relevant qualifications.

We have a variety of courses, classes and workshops to help you to update your computing skills whether it’s for work, to gain or improve your skills or a leisure interest. Courses are also available for individuals who are self-employed or running a small business, or we can provide bespoke workshops for community groups.

Our computing classes are available in different formats from flexible learning to classroom based or distance learning. Sessions take place in our welcoming computer suites with current software as well as some community based sessions for a particular topic or theme. We recognise that most people’s lives are now increasingly busy and studying the same time every week is very difficult, so we have four flexible learning centres which have a variety of opening times through the week which you can access your course through.