AI Literacy Bootcamp

Yes; the AI Literacy for Business course is free for eligible learners through government and combined-authority Skills Bootcamp funding (£2,000 otherwise, with payment plans and scholarships). Funded cohorts run online and across our partner regions: Hull & East Yorkshire, Lincoln & Lincolnshire, Norwich & Norfolk, and Ipswich & Suffolk. Places are first-come, first-served, so check your nearest location page for current availability.

No; no coding, no computer-science degree, and no prior experience. AI literacy is specifically about understanding, using and critically evaluating AI tools without writing code, so the course starts at the fundamentals and builds up. If you can use everyday office software, you can do this course.

AI literacy is the ability to understand, use, evaluate and work responsibly alongside AI tools at work. Over 9 weeks you’ll cover four areas: (1) the essentials of machine learning, AI and large language models (LLMs); (2) the human role in AI: effective prompting and where AI falls short; (3) the ethics and law of AI, including the EU AI Act; and (4) working effectively with AI: critically evaluating its output and making sound decisions about its use. You’ll leave able to build a responsible AI policy for your organisation.

Two reasons: opportunity and obligation. Only about 1 in 6 UK businesses (16%) currently use AI (DSIT), yet the UK wage premium for workers with AI skills tripled to 34.2% in 2025 (PwC AI Jobs Barometer), so AI-literate people are both rarer and more valuable. And Article 4 of the EU AI Act (in force since 2 February 2025) requires organisations that provide or deploy AI (including UK organisations whose AI systems’ output is used in the EU) to ensure staff have a sufficient level of AI literacy, so structured training is fast becoming a baseline expectation, not a nice-to-have.

The government’s free AI training on the AI Skills Hub is a useful starting point: short, industry-built courses (some under 20 minutes) that can earn a government-backed “AI foundations” badge (launched January 2026). This is a 9-week, instructor-led course at Level 3 that goes far deeper (AI ethics, the law, effective prompting, and writing a real AI policy for your business), with a live tutor, a cohort and post-course community support. For eligible learners it’s funded too, so “free” doesn’t have to mean “brief”.

Yes; the course works for teams as well as individuals. Managers learn to set a consistent, safe and legally sound standard for AI use across their people (directly relevant to EU AI Act Article 4 duties), and everyone leaves able to contribute to a shared AI policy. To put a group through together or arrange training around your organisation, book a call and we’ll tailor it.

People at every starting point: business owners adopting AI safely, team managers responsible for how their people use it, professionals upskilling to stay competitive, and career changers or returners building future-ready skills. No technical background is needed for any of these routes.

9 weeks, part-time, one day per week, delivered online, with fully funded cohorts also available in our partner regions. Sessions are live and instructor-led (led by our Data & AI Course Lead), so you learn with a real tutor and a cohort, not alone through videos.

The course is not an accredited course, but it is mapped to KSBs (knowledge, skills and behaviours) relevant to employer requirements around Level 3 equivalency, so what you learn reflects real requirements for jobs and roles. We monitor and record attainment and progression to the RARPA framework.