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We’ve teamed up with FutureLearn to offer a growing range of free online courses.

They’re open to everyone. You can use them to:

  • try online learning for the first time
  • get inspired and grow your skills.

Free online short courses

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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Health, Law, and Socio-Cultural Sensitivity

Learn to recognise, report and prevent FGM practices. Join our free online course for anyone with safeguarding duties, including health and social care professionals.

  • Online learning
  • February
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How Does the Body Use DNA as a Blueprint?

Get an introduction to the basics of molecular biology and how DNA code works with this free online course.

  • Online learning
  • February or June
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Nutrition and Wellbeing

Demystify the complex and conflicting messages we hear about nutrition, health and lifestyle today with this free online course.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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Nutrition Science: Food Choice and Behaviour

Nourish your skills and explore the psychology of consumers with our free and flexible online nutrition course.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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Nutrition Science: Lifestyle Medicine

Study lifestyle medicine online for free with expert practitioners and researchers. Investigate the role of diet, exercise, mental health and environment in improving health outcomes.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
Short course

Nutrition Science: Obesity and Healthy Weight Loss in Adults

Study obesity and weight loss online with expert UK nutritionists. Learn about the causes of obesity and explore the evidence behind a range of approaches to weight management.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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Walter Scott: The Man Behind the Monument

Help us celebrate 250 years of Scotland’s greatest storyteller. Discover the work, writing practices and legacy of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland’s most loved and enduring literary legends, with our free online course.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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What Drives the Body?

Learn about the different components and systems in the body that keep us alive and healthy with our free online course.

  • Online learning
  • February or July
Short course

What is the Body?

Get an introduction to the different structures and functions that make up the human body with this free online course.

  • Online learning
  • January or June
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Free online courses for people in Scotland

If you live in Scotland, you could be eligible for a free place on one of many online short courses.

We have free, government-funded course places to give away this year.

See if you’re eligible, and what you can study