Online learning
that changes careers.

learndirect was founded in 2000 with a single idea: a qualification should fit your life, not the other way round. A nurse on night shifts, a parent at home, a builder retraining at 45, none of them can attend a 9am lecture in another city. So we built something different.

Twenty-five years later we’re still the largest online and distance-learning provider in the UK, with more than 4.5 million learners on the journey behind us. We’ve helped care workers move into nursing, teaching assistants into teaching, and tradespeople into management, not by lowering the bar, but by removing every barrier that wasn’t the learning itself.

Today our pathways span Access to HE, Higher Technical Qualifications, CMI leadership, NCFE/CACHE childcare and care, AAT accounting, dental nursing, cyber security, TEFL, GCSEs and A-Levels, all regulated, all online, all tutor-supported.