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Imperial
Empowers
Advanced skills for a tech-enabled future
Imperial Institute of Extended Learning
Our goal: We will help to future-proof careers,
businesses and communities by providing the
advanced skills training and values-driven leadership
needed to thrive in a tech-enabled world.
Now: For more than a century, Imperial’s evolving
research-rich educational programmes have inspired,
stretched and encouraged many of the world’s
STEMB leaders. In the last ten years, they have
grown to include many exciting new interdisciplinary
programmes in response to scientific advances, the
emergence of new global challenges and changing
workplace skills needs. Our graduates have long
been sought after for their talent, solution-focused
mindset and track record of creating innovations
of real significance.
Next: If humanity is to thrive in a science- and
tech-driven world, places of higher learning must
act with speed, agility and foresight. That is why
we will expand beyond degree programmes to
offer flexible and lifelong advanced STEMB training
through the establishment of a new Imperial
Institute of Extended Learning. The Institute
will leverage the disciplinary excellence within
our academic departments and the unparalleled
interdisciplinary capacity within our new Schools
of Convergence Science (page 28), to provide
advanced skills training for individuals, businesses,
governments and other knowledge organisations.
For individual learners, Imperial’s cutting edge
short courses will be used to unlock new career
opportunities or stacked over time to achieve a
formal degree award. For knowledge organisations,
we will work with them to customise STEMB-led
short courses and leadership programmes to
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Custom Sustainability
Programme with Bain
& Company
Imperial partnered with consulting firm Bain & Company to
roll out an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) training
programme across the company's global network. It was thoughtfully
designed by academic experts from Imperial’s Business School,
Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy together
with leaders from Bain’s own sustainability practice. Aligning with
the firm’s commitment to integrate and elevate ESG in all client
work, the partnership highlights the urgency of ESG competence
in business leadership and equips professionals with the training
they need to steer clients towards a more sustainable future.
meet their skills and business development needs.
For both individuals and businesses, the Imperial
Institute of Extended Learning will build on
our position at the forefront of STEMB to ensure
participants are equipped with the knowledge, skills
and leadership capability to grasp new opportunities
in rapidly advancing fields such as AI, cleantech,
deep tech, quantum, engineering biology and
climate science.
The Imperial Institute of Extended Learning
will reinforce Imperial’s role as a world-changing
university that’s as future-ready as our learners.
“The Imperial Institute of
Extended Learning is our
response to the rapid pace
of global change and will Right: Jim McCloskey presenting the Global Skills Development programme
equip people everywhere at Imperial's Business School at the South Kensington Campus.
and at every life stage with
the agility, knowledge and
insight to first prepare for
the future, and then shape it.”
Leila Guerra, Associate Provost
(Digital Lifelong Learning)
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