+150 mentors from top tech companies
AI and data skills for a career in sports & beyond
Use AI and data tools for the routine work. Build the judgement to solve problems, make decisions and explain your recommendations, with projects that show what you can do.
Choose from three paths
The manual busywork
- Find formulas
- Clean
- Calculate
- Format
Looking up Excel formulas, cleaning rows and formatting reports takes your attention away from what the numbers mean.
The skills you’ll build
- You + AI
- Question
- Check
- Recommend
Use AI to write formulas and prepare reports. Learn to ask useful questions, check the answers and explain what should happen next.
Examples of skills you could apply
Spot changes in attendance
The manual busywork. Combining spreadsheets by hand. In sport: Match attendance. Beyond sport: Class attendance or visitor counts.
The skills you’ll build. Use AI to help summarise the figures. Check the totals, compare dates and flag changes for a manager to investigate.
Turn feedback into an action list
The manual busywork. Reading and sorting comments one at a time. In sport: Fan feedback. Beyond sport: Customer reviews in retail or hospitality.
The skills you’ll build. Ask AI to group comments into themes. Check the original responses and suggest issues for the team to review.
Create a weekly report a manager can act on
The manual busywork. Starting each report from a blank document. In sport: Club operations updates. Beyond sport: Sales or team updates.
The skills you’ll build. Draft a summary from checked figures with AI. Explain what changed and suggest the next question to investigate.
What you’ll be able to do
Make Excel work for you
Use AI to generate formulas, organise data and create charts. Understand and check the output so you can trust the information you use.
Turn information into a decision
Identify the question that matters, interpret the findings and explain your recommendation to colleagues.
Build work you can show
Create reports and simple workflows through projects. Practise explaining your approach and improving it with mentor feedback.
What can you expect?
Start with the basics, practise on projects and improve with mentor feedback. Learn online alongside your job, one step at a time.
Projects connected to your work
Build reports, dashboards or automations as you learn. Use projects to practise the skills your chosen programme teaches.
One-to-one expert feedback
Review your projects with technical mentors. Work through questions, explain your choices and use their feedback to improve.
Online learning alongside your job
Work through guided modules and projects online, with live support and progress check-ins. Agree learning time with your employer.
Why Turing College?
Learn from industry experts
Train with experienced data professionals through Turing College.
Get hands-on project experience
Apply your learning in your current role.
Fully funded
Your place on the programme will be fully funded through the Growth & Skills Levy.
Proven business impact and measurable ROI
Project-based learning ensures employees apply skills from day one.
Trusted by over 3,000 learners and 100+ companies, from startups to global enterprises
Partnership
Select a programme
New to AI? We’ll help you choose a programme that fits your experience and current role.
AI for Business (L3)
- 15 months + 3 months
Teaches staff how to source, format, blend and analyse data accurately, using real tools like spreadsheets and data software to support business decisions.
- Who it’s for
- Data support staff, junior analysts, or technicians who collect, process, and report data for teams.
- Next start
- 26 October 2026
Data Analytics & AI (L4)
- 15 months + 3 months
Equips employees to build structured analytics workflows, apply Excel, SQL, Python, BI tools and deliver actionable insights for better decisions.
- Who it’s for
- Data analysts or team members moving into more complex analysis and reporting.
- Next start
- 26 October 2026
Applied AI & Automation (L4)
- 15 months + 3 months
Develops the skills to identify high-impact automation opportunities, build AI-supported workflows, and refine them over time to maximise business value.
- Who it’s for
- Professionals who already help improve how work gets done but haven’t had formal training in AI or automation yet.
- Next start
- 26 October 2026
You’re in good hands
We’ve helped world-class athletes prepare for careers beyond sport.
From Olympic rowing to data analytics
Olympic bronze medallist Viktorija Senkutė studied Data Analytics at Turing College alongside her rowing career. Flexible study and one-to-one mentoring helped her fit learning around training and competition.
Being an athlete is not the only thing that defines me.
