{"id":8789,"date":"2020-06-25T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2020-06-25T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:10:45","slug":"free-open-university-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/free-open-university-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Open University Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Employees in Scotland who are in furlough or face redundancy due to COVID-19 are being encouraged to apply for a new selection of fully funded modules by The Open University in Scotland that offer vital post-pandemic skills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by the Scottish Funding Council\u2019s Upskilling Fund, the modules have been selected by The Open University (OU) and Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) to address specific Scottish skills gaps in IT, business, maths and engineering and support workers to reskill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Upskilling Modules will be delivered online through flexible distance learning from October 2020 and they are open to everyone with no previous qualifications required.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications must be submitted&nbsp;by 24 July 2020&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apply here:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/choose\/upskilling-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/choose\/upskilling-scotland<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you require any further information regarding funding or business&nbsp;information&nbsp;please&nbsp;contact&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alison Clark&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 Response Coordinator&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiree Community Development Trust&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:alison@tireetrust.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alison@tireetrust.org.uk<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T: 07741 489 959&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees in Scotland who are in furlough or face redundancy due to COVID-19 are being encouraged to apply for a new selection of fully funded modules by The Open University in Scotland that offer vital post-pandemic skills.&nbsp; Supported by the Scottish Funding Council\u2019s Upskilling Fund, the modules have been selected by The Open University (OU) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students-young-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}