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Programs for the AI Era
A carefully curated, filterable range of high-impact offerings built around pillars of leadership and personal growth. Each program is engineered for real, measurable transformation and can be delivered flexibly, in-school, as an expedition, or as a fully managed residential camp.
Responsible AI Foundations
A practical, interactive foundation in responsible AI, fairness, transparency, explainability, and human-centered design using AWS tools.
Built on AWS curriculum, this course introduces the core dimensions of responsible AI, fairness, privacy, and robustness, and guides learners through model selection, transparent design, and the tools that make AI accountable and trustworthy.
- Apply responsible AI principles and dimensions
- Evaluate models on transparency & explainability
- Use AWS tools for trustworthy AI development
- Earn a certificate of completion


AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering
The foundational language of the intelligence age, taught as literacy, not novelty.
A structured journey from "what is AI?" to confidently designing prompts that produce reliable, useful outputs across text, image, and code.
- Confident, critical everyday AI use
- Design effective multi-step prompts
- Spot hallucinations and verify outputs


Ethical AI & Bias Forensics
Students audit real AI systems for bias, building the ethical muscle the future demands.
Hands-on forensics where learners probe live datasets and models, documenting bias, privacy risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Run a bias audit on a real model
- Articulate ethical trade-offs
- Author a responsible-use policy


AI Innovation Lab
Build, train, and deploy real AI models. From concept to production in one semester.
A project-driven lab mirroring a real ML team, scoping, data, training, evaluation, and deployment of a working model.
- Ship a deployed AI prototype
- Understand the full ML lifecycle
- Present a product demo to mentors

Mission Mars
A hands-on STEM journey to the Red Planet with NASA astronauts, designing spacecraft and exploring Mars.
Interdisciplinary teams design, launch, and govern a Mars colony, solving engineering, life-support, governance, and ethical dilemmas.
- Systems-thinking across STEM disciplines
- Experience astronaut-led mentoring
- Defend a colony design review


The CubeSat Challenge
A NASA astronaut-guided STEM program where students design and build real CubeSats, fostering space innovation.
A genuine aerospace project: subsystems, integration, testing, and launch-readiness review, guided by industry engineers.
- Hands-on satellite systems engineering
- Build a 1U CubeSat
- Learn Space Tech Applications


Earth 2.0
A NASA astronaut-led STEM program teaching sustainability through hands-on eco-innovation projects.
Place-based learning in real ecosystems, data collection, sustainability analysis, and stewardship action projects.
- Collect and analyse field data
- Understand climate systems firsthand
- Design a school sustainability action


The Leadership Academy
A 12-week intensive forging vision, gravitas, and the composure of future executives.
A cohort-based academy building self-leadership, strategy, and executive presence through coaching, simulations, and real feedback.
- Articulate a personal leadership vision
- Lead under pressure with composure
- Deliver an executive-level pitch

Communication & Executive Presence
Command a room. Tell a story that moves. Lead with presence that precedes you.
Structured practice in storytelling, voice, body language, and high-stakes communication, with video review and coaching.
- Deliver a compelling narrative
- Project executive presence
- Handle Q&A with confidence

Emotional Intelligence Lab
The science of self-awareness, empathy, and the emotional architecture of leadership.
Evidence-based EQ development: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and relationship management, measured before and after.
- Raise measured EQ scores
- Apply regulation techniques under stress
- Build stronger peer relationships

Critical Thinking Forge
Structured reasoning, logical dissection, and the disciplined art of good judgment.
A practice-heavy course in argumentation, logical fallacies, decision frameworks, and structured judgment under uncertainty.
- Deconstruct arguments fast
- Avoid common logical fallacies
- Make defensible decisions under uncertainty

Mindfulness & Meditation
Evidence-based practices for focus, calm, and cognitive regulation under pressure.
A secular, science-backed programme building a personal mindfulness practice that measurably improves focus and stress regulation.
- Establish a daily practice
- Reduce measured stress markers
- Improve sustained attention

Resilience Training
Build the psychological architecture to thrive through adversity and change.
A resilience curriculum grounded in cognitive-behavioural science, building adaptability, grit, and recovery from setbacks.
- Apply a resilience toolkit to real setbacks
- Strengthen adaptive coping
- Sustain performance under pressure

Transforming Our World: The SDGs
A foundational journey through the UN Sustainable Development Goals, ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all.
Built on the SDG Academy curriculum, this course introduces all 17 SDGs and the 169 targets, exploring how learners can act as agents of sustainable change in their communities.
- Understand all 17 SDGs and their targets
- Map local action to global goals
- Design a sustainability action project
- Earn a certificate of completion


Cities & the Challenge of Sustainable Development
How cities can become engines of sustainable development, urban planning, resilience, and inclusive growth.
Learners explore the role of cities in achieving the SDGs, from sustainable infrastructure and transport to equity, governance, and climate-resilient urban design.
- Analyse urban sustainability challenges
- Apply SDG frameworks to cities
- Propose a resilient urban solution
- Present a city sustainability brief


Business & the Sustainable Development Goals
A high-demand ESG course for schools, how business can drive the SDGs through strategy, ethics, and responsible enterprise.
An in-demand ESG course where students examine how businesses align strategy with the SDGs, covering ESG principles, corporate responsibility, and sustainable value creation.
- Apply ESG principles to real companies
- Evaluate corporate sustainability reports
- Build a responsible-business case
- Pitch an ESG improvement plan


Financial Literacy Foundations
A Deloitte-delivered financial literacy course, equipping students with the money management, investing, and financial decision-making skills for life.
Delivered by Deloitte finance professionals, this course builds real-world financial literacy, from budgeting and saving to investing, risk, and understanding financial systems.
- Build a personal budget and savings plan
- Understand investing and risk
- Make informed financial decisions
- Earn a Deloitte-backed certificate

Teacher Professional Development
Equip educators to teach AI, lead wellbeing, and integrate future-skills into every subject.
A certified CPD pathway giving faculty the confidence, tools, and lesson banks to embed AI, leadership, and wellbeing across subjects.
- Certified CPD completion
- Ready-to-use lesson banks
- A faculty-wide future-skills roadmap

Curriculum Integration
We embed all five pillars into your existing curriculum, co-designed with your faculty.
A co-design engagement mapping the seven pillars into your curriculum frameworks, scaffolds, and assessment, aligned to IB/CIS/COBIS.
- A mapped, accredited curriculum
- Faculty co-ownership
- Cross-subject pillar integration

Managed Summer Programs
Fully operated 2,6 week summer experiences. We handle everything; you get the outcomes.
A fully managed summer camp, curriculum, staffing, logistics, safety, assessment, and reporting delivered end-to-end by our team.
- Zero operational burden on school
- Measured student outcomes
- A flagship summer experience

End-to-End Event Delivery
Logistics, staffing, safety, assessment, and reporting, a complete turnkey operation.
From a single keynote day to a multi-week festival, we deliver the entire event operation, including safeguarding and impact reporting.
- A flawless delivered event
- Full safeguarding and risk cover
- A post-event impact report

NOCN ESOL International (A1 to C2)
NOCN certified ESOL International English qualification courses at six CEFR levels (A1 to C2), plus vocational and business English, delivered in partnership with Edifyworld.
A UK-designed curriculum delivered by expert native-speaking teachers providing continuous support through a comprehensive Learning Management System (LMS) to ensure learner success. Learners study at their identified level across all four skills, speaking, listening, reading, and writing, with bankable skill assessments and lifelong certification.
- Study at your identified CEFR level (A1 to C2)
- Student-centred
- Examinations equally assess the 4 skills
- Bank passed skills; only re-sit those you fail
- IELTS-equivalent, lifelong certificate
- Constant online support via the LMS


A0 for Beginners
A dedicated entry-level English course for absolute beginners, building foundational speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills before progressing to A1.
Designed for learners with little or no prior English, this course develops core vocabulary, reading, pronunciation, and everyday communication, with continuous support through the LMS and a clear pathway into the NOCN ESOL International A1 qualification.
- Build core vocabulary, reading, and pronunciation
- Develop everyday communication skills
- Pathway into the A1 qualification
- Constant online support via the LMS


General English
General English courses helping learners develop all four language skills and gain a NOCN ESOL International qualification, from beginner to proficient.
Learners begin with a placement test, then study at their matched CEFR level across speaking, listening, reading, and writing , through student-centred approaches, ESOL test practice, and one-to-one support both online and at the centre.
- Online placement tested to identify the starting CEFR level
- Four-skills development (speaking, listening, reading, writing)
- NOCN ESOL International certificate
- One-to-one support online and on-site


Vocational & Business English
Tailored English courses for vocations in hospitality and tourism, healthcare, automotive, construction, finance, logistics, textiles, and business, addressing real workplace needs.
Developed in partnership with each sector through a detailed Training Needs Analysis, these courses build practical functional English skills with real-world simulations, problems solving, role-play, and targeted ESOL International exam preparation, with exam customised to the industry.
- Industry-specific functional English and communication
- Training Needs Analysis and placement test
- Real-world workplace simulations
- NOCN ESOL International certificate at 6 levels


For Studying & Working Abroad (Level B2)
Intensive NOCN ESOL International B2 preparation courses for learners planning to study or work abroad, with flexible durations from a 2-week crash course for advanced learners to a 12-week comprehensive route.
Every learner begins with a placement test to match them to the right course intensity. Options range from a 2-week, 40-hour crash course to a 12-week, 162-hour comprehensive route, all including four-skills development and practice, ESOL International B2 test strategies, and one-to-one support.
- Achieve CEFR B2 for international study or work
- Flexible duration: 2, 8, or 12 weeks
- ESOL International B2 exam taken the week following the course
- One-to-one support throughout


Whole-School STEM Capacity Building
A capacity building, supportive professional development programme helping schools build an integrated, whole-school approach to STEM education.
Two supportive structured sub-programmes: one for School and STEM Leadership Teams to review provision, develop action plans, and work towards STEM school certification; another for STEM teachers to implement authentic, inquiry, problem and project-based STEM learning experiences in and beyond the classroom, with leadership and teacher Professional Learning Communities supported constantly through the comprehensive LMS.
- Review STEM provision with the STEM Health Check tool
- Develop a whole-school STEM action plan
- Effective engagement with the STEM Ecosystem
- Implement authentic STEM learning in and beyond the classroom
- Work in Professional Learning Communities supported through the LMS


Online, Hybrid, or In Person
Every SkillUp Global Academy program can be delivered in the mode that fits your school, from fully online courses to immersive on-campus experiences, or a blend of both.
Online
Self-paced and live virtual programs accessible anywhere. Perfect for asynchronous learning and remote cohorts.
AI Literacy & moreHybrid
Combine online modules with in-person intensives. The best of both worlds for schools wanting depth and flexibility.
Most popularIn Person
Fully on-site delivery at your school or a managed venue. Hands-on workshops, expeditions, and camps.
Camps & expeditionsLearn from World-Class Mentors
Every programme is led by practitioners at the top of their field — astronauts who flew with NASA and expert faculty, alongside globally recognised leadership architects and wellbeing specialists.

Tessa Grint
Global Leadership Architect, Leadership by Design
With nearly 20 years across marketing and leadership development, Tessa Grint is redefining how leaders are built through her philosophy, Leadership by Design. Splitting her time between London and Bangkok, she blends eastern wisdom with western performance to engineer elite leaders who operate with mastery, intuition and quiet certainty.

Andrew Sapuppo
NASA / JPL Propulsion Systems Engineer
Andrew Sapuppo is a propulsion systems engineer working on NASA's next-generation rocket — the Space Launch System (SLS) — designed to carry astronauts back to the Moon and beyond. He also supports SpaceX's Falcon 9 launches for NASA crewed missions. He holds dual degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado and has a passion for making science and space accessible to everyone.

Dr. Mark Windale
International STEM and Science Education Expert
Mark was formerly a Director of the Centre for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; Senior Adviser/Specialist in STEM Education at SEAMEO STEM-ED; and school headteacher. Over the past 31 years he has run national and international Science and STEM education programmes in partnership with the British Council, ministries of education and STEM companies across South and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and South America. He has experience at a national policy-making level, supporting ministries and schools to implement coordinated and coherent whole school STEM programmes.
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