Skills and Education

Space Park Leicester will introduce students and learners to the environments, knowledge and skills that underpin today’s rapidly expanding space and space-enabled sectors. Our range of education and training opportunities are designed to create and inspire a new generation of engineers, analysts and entrepreneurs – ready to change the world for the better.

Our programmes make full use of our unique partnerships across the space industry and are led by academics and businesses at the forefront of these fields. Students training here will have unprecedented access to the facilities used to develop and test technologies for major space missions, as well as the experts who have used them.

To find out more about our skills development, from masters through to bespoke CPD, please contact skills@space-park.co.uk.

Students training at Space Park will provide a pool of interns and employees to partners. Specific opportunities will include joint projects with industry within degree courses, summer internships, year in industry placements and joint University/industry-supported PhDs. Industrial partners will also be able to contribute directly to degree teaching, helping develop the employability of Leicester students.

Drawing on the University of Leicester’s extensive CPD provision and distance learning, training opportunities are available for individual postgraduate modules which can be studied remotely. Studying multiple modules can lead to the award of a certificate (PGCert), diploma (PGDip) or a full Masters degree.

Alongside provision for undergraduate and postgraduate students, the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester will stimulate the curiosity and wonder of primary and secondary school pupils through close collaboration with the National Space Centre and its National Space Academy. There will also be apprenticeship opportunities driven by the University’s widening participation agenda. Higher Apprenticeships will target NVQ-level training of recruits to industrial partners.