On Wednesday 28th January 2026 the UK government announced it’s ambition to boost the AI skills of the UK with the AI Skills Hub (https://aiskillshub.org.uk).
The AI Skills Hub has the ambition to up skill 10 million UK workers by offering free training. Yes, free. And regular readers will know I’m a big fan of #alwayslearning so an opportunity to get free AI training gets an instant thumbs up from me.
The training is from industry partners such as Amazon, Microsoft and IBM, is split across multiple courses and focuses on key skills for use with AI. It’s backed by Skills England and the Department for Science Innovation and Technology.
The courses vary in length, and offer differing content based on provider. This evening I went through “Introduction to AI” with IBM, and although it took the creation of a few accounts (AI Skills Hub, IBM Skills Builder, Credly) I ended the evening with a good overview of AI, the eras of computing and how to prompt an LLM such as ChatGPT. Thanks AI Skills Hub and IBM 🙂
If you are in the UK and looking for some AI training then give the AI Skills Hub a shot, and hopefully it hits ambition of up skilling UK workers.
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