Skills Training and Course Catalogue
Searching for training courses
The university offers a wide range of training and development opportunities; a general overview is provided on the StaffNet training and development page. However, if you want to search for a course or see what courses are coming up, the university has a dedicated tool by IT Services for this called the Manchester Working Environment (MWE) Training Catalogue (which is part of the eProg system). Use the navigation bar on the left of their catalogue webpage to either view all courses or search for specific ones. If you want to learn how to use their search feature, they have a tutorial here. Note that all courses across the university are found here, including the personal and career development courses run by the Researcher Development Team or those by IT Services etc. (see below). When you’ve found a course you want to attend using their tool, just follow the links to book a place. (Some training courses, particularly those run by IT Services, are self-teaching and don’t require attendance or booking.) The courses you have registered for (and a history of past courses you’ve attended) can be seen by clicking on the “My Training and Development” link on the left of their website as shown in the image here to the left.
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- Day-to-day topics
- University-wide services
- School-level services
- Support hubs
- General finance support
- Finance Systems team and Oracle Financials
- Registering to buy things on i-Proc
- How to buy things on i-Proc / eMarketplace
- IE, category, and task codes
- Set up a new i-Proc supplier
- Buy a new computer
- Central Stores
- Credit card purchases
- Petty cash
- One-off payment forms
- Expensive orders (over £5k)
- Finance Hub and Finance Manager meetings
- Conferences and travel
- Advances
- Expense claims
Training courses offered by the Faculty
Researcher Development Team
The Faculty Researcher Development Team hosts a number of skills training courses throughout the year for research staff associated with personal and career development, covering a wide range of topics from presentation tips, Fellowship application support, to starting your own business. Their website’s skills training calendar lists the courses they run themselves, and their regular bulletins emailed to us all provide a summary of all new opportunities available (check this often!). Find a course you want to attend, and click the link on its description page to be directed to the training catalogue to register.
Training courses offered by IT Services
IT Services also offer training courses that are either software related, e.g. using Matlab or programming using GPUs etc., or university system related, e.g. using i- Proc etc. • Software related training courses (except for ubiquitous software like Microsoft Office which is considered as core system) are listed on the Training Courses for Research Computing page. • System related training courses (including Microsoft Office) are listed on their main page. Use their navigation bar on the left (pictured) to browse through the categories of courses. All courses applied for which require booking will be directed to the training catalogue discussed above for registration.
Training courses offered by the Library
The university library also offers training courses that are either software related, e.g. using Endnote, or personal development related such as learning how to use eScholar. All currently available courses can be found in their calendar.External training courses
Vitae (see our page about them here) also have a list of events they host, a number of which are training courses.
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