Tech City UK and UCL launch the Digital Business Academy

UCL and Tech City UK is launching the Digital Business Academy, the world's first government-supported online learning platform to provide digital and business skills for anyone aspiring to start, grow or join a digital business. The programme is open to all UK residents and requires no pre-qualification. The Academy brings together world-class educational institutions and industry experts to give anyone in the UK free access to digital business skills. Over 1,000 people have already signed up during the pre-registration phase to online courses from UCL, Cambridge University Judge Business School and Founder Centric, a grass roots startup school that works with the likes of Seedcamp and Oxford University.  The programme is launched in beta and the platform is powered by UCL's online learning platform UCLeXtend. Over 35 industry partners including the BBC, O2 Think Big, Unruly, Ogilvy Labs and Microsoft Ventures have endorsed the programme. Our partners offer tangible opportunities to course participants in the form of paid internships, mentorship, specialist content, and free startup support such as access to loans and free co-working space.