Start your journey into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with our AI Pathway.
This self-directed online course uses IBM’s SkillsBuild platform to introduce a range of concepts including the origins and development of AI to advanced machine learning techniques.
The course is available and accessible after signing up and is taken at your own pace. We estimate candidates will require around 6 hours to complete the Fundamentals package, and a further 30 hours to complete the Python coding package, including practical exercises.
Our Pathways programme is tailored for members of the Armed Forces community, providing accessible, remote learning opportunities. With no costs to learners, our courses offer a valuable pathway to professional development and certification. This course provides an IBM badge of completion and practical use of Python coding.
Note: this course was previously offered as a gateway to a longer course delivered by Abertay University. From September 2024 that course is no longer available.
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We're delighted to partner with IBM in the provision of this Artificial Intelligence course.
The course is designed to help people with military security training and experience develop their understanding of this growing and increasingly important part of the digital and cyber landscape.
This programme is designed to provide members of the Armed Forces community (serving personnel, former members of the Armed Forces, and spouses) with access to training in the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, their history and key concepts, as well practical use of Python coding.
If you're a competent IT user, willing to learn and have an interest in Python coding, the future of computing and our interactions with increasingly complex computer systems, then this could be for you. And it's FREE - no need to use up ELC or IRTC grants and no course fees.
What is Click Start?
This free, digital course is part of the new nationwide Click Start training programme developed by the Institute of Coding (IoC), a national consortium of industry, educators and outreach providers. Click Start is funded by Nominet, the public benefit company that operates and protects UK Internet infrastructure and uses its funds to support projects that promote digital inclusion.
The programme, which launched in 2023, helps to tackle the UK’s digital skills gap by offering skills and training to more than 26,500 learners across the country who may not have previously had opportunities. 
About Nominet
Nominet is a public benefit company, driven by a commitment to use technology to improve connectivity, security and inclusivity online. For 25 years, Nominet has, developing an expertise in the Domain Name System (DNS) that now underpins sophisticated threat monitoring, detection, prevention, and analytics that is used by governments to mitigate cyber threats. Our social impact programme provides funding, support, and opportunities to help tackle some of the most important digital issues facing young people in the UK today.
About the Institute of Coding
The Institute of Coding (IoC), led by the University of Bath, is a collaborative national consortium of industry, educators and outreach providers that are working together to respond to the UK’s digital skills gap through the delivery of employer-led digital skills education. Through this collaborative approach, IoC partners have created more than 150 new courses that have engaged over 900,000 diverse learners to date.
SaluteMyJob are proud to have partnered with IBM for nearly 10 years to help tackle the UK's digital skills gap.
IBM SkillsBuild is a free education programme focused on underrepresented communities in tech, that helps adult learners, high school, college and university students plus educators, develop valuable new skills and access career opportunities. This global programme includes an online platform that is complemented by customised practical learning experiences delivered in collaboration with a global network of partners. In the UK, SaluteMyJob is an IBM SkillsBuild partner and all SaluteMyJob learners have free access to IBM SkillsBuild.