Academic Skills
Part of the Skills Centre, we provide digital and academic skills support to all students.
Skills Centre
Drop-ins, courses, online resources and 1:1 tutorials to help you succeed in your studies and beyond.
Work with us as a Skills Co-creator
Skills development that fits flexibly around your timetable
Enhance your academic and career prospects through our workshops, courses, self-access resources, tutorials and drop-in sessions. Master academic and study skills, digital and GenAI, maths and statistics, languages, and essential workplace skills.
Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
We help all students with maths and statistics problems.
Foreign Languages
We offer courses throughout the academic year to build your language skills, develop your intercultural competence, and maximise your career prospects.
Developing digital skills
Access our online resources at a time and a pace that suits you, to develop the digital skills you need in your studies and employment.
Your digital skills and capabilities
Supporting you to develop your digital skills and capabilities, through resources, tools and technologies at Bath.
Employability and Student Success
The Skills Centre is an integral part of the Employability and Student Success directorate. We work closely with colleagues in Careers, placements, and Enterprise to ensure all students are given the best opportunity to fulfil their potential at university and beyond.
Read more about Employability and Student Success
Support for international students
We offer exceptional English language and cultural awareness courses for international students, to support their linguistic, intercultural and employability skills.
British Studies
We offer credit-bearing courses for visiting and exchange students on British literature and culture and English linguistics.
Discussion Skills
Enhance your English language discussion skills and build your confidence with spoken communication in academic contexts.
English Language skills
These classes help you develop the English language skills you need to succeed in your studies and future career.
Academic & Employability Skills blog
Tips, reflections, and advice from our staff to help you develop your academic and employability skills. We've picked some of our favourites here - click the button to read everything.
Collaborate for success
This article explores the benefits of collaboration and how to make it effective.
Italian Ambassador meets Language Skills students studying Italian
The University of Bath community experienced a special cultural moment as we welcomed the Italian Ambassador Inigo Lambertini to campus.
Behind the scenes of the new Steps to Success calendar
Read student Lily's blog post about her recent work on the Steps to Success calendar, supporting exam and assessment preparation.
Unihub
Unihub is your one-stop-shop for everything you need to develop your study and employability skills, and discover opportunities to put those skills to the test. Use MySkills to find and book the right skills development opportunities for you, My Employability Profile to show employers what you've done, and MyFuture to find vacancies and work experience opportunities.
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What's new
Read our latest announcements and updates on our services.
Three Skills Co-creator vacancies open for applications
There are vacancies for three Student Co-Creators to work with the Digital and Academic Skills Team supporting the development and promotion of skills provision
Develop your employability with the new Confident Communication workshop series
Open to all students, this new series of four workshops will equip you with fundamental public speaking skills.
Discover how languages improve your employability
Find out how language learning cultivates a wide range of transferable employability skills.
About us
The Skills Centre is overseen by Helen Stringer, Director of Employability & Student Success.
Our Heads of Teams are:
- David Busby, Head of Digital & Academic Skills
- Dr Emma Cliffe, Head of the Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
- Claire Charlemagne - Head of Languages
Contact us
If you have any questions about skills development opportunities, please get in touch via email.