Work-readiness courses for ambitious learners
Gain the knowledge, skills and confidence for a fun, successful career
Introduction to Futureproof Career Skills
Take the first step towards a futureproof career with this three-hour course, including videos, quizzes, and a completion certificate for your CV and UCAS personal statement, endorsed by NCFE.
Introduction to Futureproof Career Skills is endorsed by NCFE. Find out more
Futureproof Careers Framework
Our Futureproof Careers framework helps prepare young people for a changing world.
FUTUREPROOF CAREERS
Our three-part Futureproof Careers framework highlights the skills and character qualities that will always be needed and valuable for work.
Portable Skills
Discover skills that will always be in demand whatever the future holds.
Character
Build the mindset of resilience and determination to overcome all obstacles in your path.
Assets
Learn how to build long term financial stability with our Financial Freedom blueprint.
Online Careers Courses
For Schools, Colleges and Individual Learners
Schools & Colleges
- Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5
- Supplement existing careers programmes e.g. Summer Career Days
- Hassle free independent learning via web and app
- Progress report for schools
Learners
- Employability skills for career success
- Align strengths to career paths
- Demonstrate commitment to employers
- Certificate of completion
NATIONAL TALENT AWARDS
Choice of Awards:
- Level 3 Award in Finding a Futureproof Career
- Level 3 Award in Speaking Confidently in Public
- Level 3 Award in Developing a Winning Mentality
- Level 3 Award in Thinking for Yourself about Controversial Topics
- Level 3 Award in Making Good Financial Decisions
National Talent Awards are not endorsed and are not nationally recognised qualifications.
LEVEL 3 AWARDS
Key Information
- Duration: 10 hours per award
- Requires 90 minutes per week of study over half a term
- No classroom or teacher time required
- Students work online in their own time
- Taught and marked by us
Weekly Assignments
Real world tasks
Direct engagement with employers
Certificates of Achievement
Gatsby Benchmarks
NTA supports the Gatsby Benchmarks by challenging stereotypical thinking and raising aspirations. It is a selective program that takes ambitious young people, coaches them in workplace skills and opens doors to in internships and other opportunities with marquee companies they would not normally get. We help students identify and evidence their strengths, through a rigorous certification process.
OUR LEARNERS
Example Work
Take a look at this excellent work by National Talent Academy learners.
Learner Work
LEARNER WORK
By National Talent Academy learners
MARKETING TASK
Sports website created in 40 minutes.
Miaad Gaffer, Year 12, George Green's School, London Docklands
National Talent Academy
National Talent Academy provides courses designed to help learners align their strengths and passions with the skills and character qualities that will always be needed in the workplace.
CONTRIBUTORS
Rory Graves
Rory works at Morgan Stanley and brings his skills as a certified Toastmaster to presentation skills teaching at NTA.
Maxine Jaffa
Maxine has a background in teaching and neuropsychology. Her book 'Emotion' is a collaboration with Mark Solms, Antonio Damasio and Oliver Sacks.
Thor Conklin
Thor has founded, bought and sold several multi-million dollar businesses and is a peak performance consultant to several multi-millionaire entrepreneurs.
Emily Cotterill
Emily specialises in developing resources for PSHE, Citizenship and Careers and has ten years of experience teaching in inner city schools.
Dick Tomlinson
Dick is an international educational and business consultant. Developed a school for 350 developmentally disadvantaged students in North Carolina.
David Jaffa
David founded SAM Learning, an online learning tool used in hundreds of schools, and received the BETT Outstanding Achievement Award 2021.
About Us
National Talent Academy provides cutting edge qualifications for a changing workplace.
National Talent Academy was founded in 2020 by Cambridge graduate David Jaffa, who previously founded SAM Learning, an online learning tool for GCSE and KS3 used in hundreds of English secondary schools, and Penda Learning, an online Science and Math tool for US schools. David received the 2021 BETT Outstanding Achievement Award for his lifetime achievements in EdTech.
CONTACT
National Talent Academy, c/o SAM Learning Ltd., 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DT
Registered in England No 02826785.
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