Cert HE AI and Digital Skills for Business Impact (Apprenticeship) at Teesside University

Programme overview

A part-time Cert HE business analyst apprenticeship aligned with the Skills England Business Analyst standard, developed with Grant Thornton UK LLP. It combines work-based learning with study in data, process modelling, organisational change and generative AI.

Department: Business Management & Enterprise | Duration: 1 year part-time (plus 4-6 months end-point assessment) | Intake: January, May or September | Study mode: part-time (apprenticeship) | Location: Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Four 30-credit modules, each ten weeks long: Managing Business Transformational Change, Data Essentials, Modelling Business Processes, and GenAI for Business Transformation. Teaching is blended, on campus in Middlesbrough and London plus online.

Career pathways

Apprentices can progress to business analyst roles, investigating business situations, analysing processes and data needs and documenting requirements for digital and business change.

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Entry requirements

Apprentices must be employed in a relevant job role with employer agreement and a minimum of six hours per week off-the-job training. A typical learner has 96 tariff points from at least two A levels (or equivalent). Level 2 English and maths (GCSE grade 4/C or Functional Skills) is mandatory before completion for apprentices aged 16-18 and optional for those aged 19 and over. Mature learners without conventional qualifications are considered, and recognition of prior learning applies. International students requiring a student visa cannot be accepted.

GBP 18,000 for the whole programme (2026/27). Employer Apprenticeship Levy investment (apprenticeship funding), not a fee charged to the apprentice. Source

Intake: January, May or September

Duration: 1 year part-time (plus 4-6 months end-point assessment)

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