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.
Semester 1 skills workshops now available to book
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.
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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.
Graduate critical thinking and resilience in the workplace
Critical thinking is highly valued by employers, yet many graduates lack it in the workplace. This blog explores practical ways to think more critically at work
The daunting beginning: how to start writing a piece of work
Starting an assignment can feel surprisingly difficult, particularly if you are worried about getting it right first time.
Creativity and innovation at University: Not what you think
Creativity takes many forms. Even if you’re not writing poetry, assignments require creativity through analysis, ideas and expression, not just memorising facts
Two-Lane: A simpler way of knowing where GenAI fits in your assessments
From the 2026/27 academic year, assessment briefs and related materials will tell you clearly whether a piece of work is open lane or closed lane.
Building resilience in the workplace starts at university
Workplace resilience doesn’t start on your first day of work. It’s built at university, where the foundations for handling professional challenges begin.
The Sustainability Advantage:Why sustainability matters for your degree, your career and your future
Sustainability is important for you, as it is for all of us, personally, professionally and culturally.
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.
Register for the Bath Award and get your skills recognised by employers
Registrations for the Bath Award 2026-27 are now open. Register by 12 February 2027 to take part.
Enrol on a language course to boost your employability this semester
Join the Skills Centre Languages team for a 10-week course in French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish.
Languages Insights Internship Programme
Gain valuable experience while supporting language learning.
Upcoming events
Join us at our upcoming workshops and focus groups.
Workplace communication skills: Understanding stakeholders and how to communicate with them (Sept)
Learn how to identify different types of stakeholders, understand their priorities, and adapt your communication style to build strong working relationships.
Language course Meet the teacher drop-in (29 September)
If you’d like to find out more about our courses, or check which level you should enrol at, come along to this Meet the teacher drop-in.
Language course Meet the teacher drop-in (30 September)
If you’d like to find out more about our courses, or check which level you should enrol at, come along to this Meet the teacher drop-in.
Language course Meet the teacher drop-in (1 October)
If you’d like to find out more about our courses, or check which level you should enrol at, come along to this Meet the teacher drop-in.
Confident communication: a public speaking workshop series
Open to all students, this series will equip you with fundamental public speaking 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.