Start with your goal
Choose a route that matches what you want to achieve
Begin with a career direction, a capability gap or an organisational need. RDE will help you identify the most relevant next step.
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Start a digital career
Build foundations, professional behaviours and role-aligned evidence for realistic junior opportunities.
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Change or advance your career
Map transferable strengths, close priority gaps and develop evidence for your target direction.
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Build specialist capability
Develop deeper competence in business, data, projects, Agile, coding, security, marketing or quality.
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Develop a team
Discuss workforce training, commissioned programmes, employer challenges and partnership delivery.
RDE Digital Cafeteria
Choose from six connected learning and development routes
The RDE Digital Cafeteria brings every academy, course and accelerator route into one clear catalogue. Start with the area that best matches your career, certification, workplace or enterprise goal.
RDE Digital Expertise Academy (DEA)
Enter the umbrella academy for 12 specialist academies. Each specialist academy contains its own structured courses, pathways and practical development options.
RDE Global Certification
Prepare for recognised professional certifications through structured learning, guided practice and current certification information.
RDE Digital Tools & Skills
Build practical capability with workplace platforms, productivity tools, collaboration systems, data tools and role-aligned digital skills.
RDE Freelance & Entrepreneurship
Develop freelance, creator, commercial and digital-business capability for independent work and responsible enterprise growth.
RDE DWP Digital Accelerator
Explore focused employment preparation combining digital development, professional behaviours, practical activity and supported progression.
RDE Stand-Alone Professional Courses
Select focused professional courses to close a specific capability gap without joining a complete academy pathway.
Selected routes from the RDE Digital Cafeteria
Select breadth, depth or accelerated employment preparation
Current entry expectations, delivery arrangements, cohort availability and funding routes are confirmed before application or enrolment.
RDE Virtual Mentoring Academy
Build broad digital capability through progressive courses, mentoring and practical development.
RDE Global Certification
Explore guided preparation for professional and technology credentials, with certification status confirmed for each route.
RDE Digital Tools & Skills
Develop practical capability with workplace productivity, collaboration, project and data tools.
Digital Employment Accelerator
Complete six intensive weeks of diagnostic, digital, project and employment-focused activity.
How RDE learning works
Move from direction to demonstrable capability
The exact pattern varies by programme, but learning remains connected to practice, feedback, evidence and career action.
- DiagnoseClarify goals, strengths, gaps, suitability and the most relevant pathway.
- LearnBuild knowledge through structured teaching, demonstrations and guided activities.
- PractiseApply tools and techniques to realistic workplace tasks and team scenarios.
- Produce evidenceCreate project, portfolio and professional outputs you can explain.
- ProgressUse mentoring, applications, interviews and aftercare to maintain momentum.
Live projects and portfolio experience
Practise how digital work is planned, delivered and reviewed
Where included, project activity helps learners work with roles, briefs, requirements, plans, risks, data, feedback and stakeholder expectations. The format may be a controlled simulation, an employer challenge or genuine work experience, depending on the programme and commissioning arrangements.
Funding and referral routes
Confirm the access route that applies to you
Programme access may include direct application, employer-sponsored training or approved commissioner and referral routes when available.
RDE confirms current eligibility, suitability, delivery, availability and funding arrangements before enrolment. Prices remain available through enquiry rather than public checkout during this launch phase.
Employers, partners and commissioners
Develop capability, contribute challenges and strengthen progression
Work with RDE on workforce development, commissioned training, referral pathways, practical challenges and employment-focused engagement.
What success looks like
Build evidence that makes progress visible
RDE records success through approved learner outputs and progression evidence. Published testimonials and outcome figures will be added only when consent, sources and review dates are confirmed.
Clearer direction
Role targets, capability gaps, learning priorities and realistic development actions.
Practical outputs
Project artefacts, dashboards, process work, plans, presentations or technical evidence.
Employment preparation
Portfolio organisation, CV and LinkedIn development, applications and interview examples.
RDE Digital Digest
Use practical knowledge to make better digital decisions
Explore clear guidance about digital roles, tools, skills, delivery practices and the changing world of work.
Take your next step
Tell us what you want to learn, change or achieve
Register your interest or contact RDE. We will explain current programmes, suitability, delivery and available access routes.