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Accelerate your career by achieving a professional qualification. Demonstrate you have the theoretical skills and knowledge to back up your practical experience.
Supporting you in your development since 1984
We specialise in professional qualifications for learners who work full time and study part time.
Providing you with a high quality learning experience is the most important part of any course. Our unique course designs and delivery methods, plus a great flexible approach, means we support you in fitting your study around your working life. All our courses are accredited by recognised industry awarding bodies.
You're helping us to transform lives
When you study with us, you're not just investing in your future but creating opportunities for others too. As part of LTE Group, one of the UK’s largest social enterprises in education, we reinvest your course fee into continuously improving the service we provide.
Whether you’re advancing your career, exploring new passions, or building professional skills, you're also helping to drive real social change.
Join a learning experience where your goals align with a greater good. Together, we can learn, grow, and transform lives.
Meet the Team
Melanie Nicholson
Managing Director
Paul Rogers
Product Director
Leanne Shackleton
Head Commercial and Key Accounts
Facts & Figures
4,000
people decided to study with MOL in 2022
Over 50%
of the FTSE 100 have chosen MOL
1984
MOL have been delivering professional qualifications since 1984
Key dates in our history
1984
MOL, then known as Manchester Open Learning, begins delivering management qualifications.
1986
We're making a name for ourselves! British Airways (BA) contracts MOL to create a customised supervisory programme.
1989
We launch BTEC qualifications through open learning in electrical engineering.
1990
We launch our construction and electrical wholesaler training modules, working with companies such as Travis Perkins and City Electrical Factors.
1991
The start of a strong partnership, we launch CIPD qualifications at Level 3 and Level 7. Level 5 didn’t exist... yet!
1992
Our management programmes grow with courses for Asda, Abbey National, DHL and Unilever. These programmes would continue for eight years.
1993
We publish a six-book series of management action guides. Have you read them?
2003
We launch property agency qualifications, in partnership with NFOPP, now known as Propertymark.
2006
Time to celebrate! We hold our first ever Graduation event for learners.
2006
We’re heading overseas! We deliver Level 7 CIPD courses to Shell in Nigeria.
2006
The CIPD L7 flexi+ programme was provided exclusively by MOL and CIPD as a blended learning programme.
2007
Closer to home, we attend the CIPD Conference in Harrogate for the first time.
2010
We launch our innovative Virtual Learning Environment! We also begin online delivery with the launch of blended learning programmes that take place mostly online with digital workbooks. Learners are provided with free tablets and supported with some face-to-face workshops.
2010
We deliver the HR Masters degree for the first time, in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University.
2010
19 years on from launching CIPD Level 3 and Level 7 courses, the Level 5 qualification arrives.
2014
Happy anniversary to us! We celebrate our 30th anniversary with a rebrand, which is officially launched at CIPD ACE.
2016
Our partnership with CIPD grows further as we gain approval for CIPD Live Online delivery for CIPD all levels.
2016
Teamwork makes the dreamwork! MOL becomes part of LTE Group alongside The Manchester College, Total People and Novus. It’s the UK’s first integrated education and skills group and the largest social enterprise in the UK.
2017
We become a strategic partner of the CMI, the chartered professional body for leadership and management in the UK. We also expanded our property division into Conveyancing.
2018
We offer Level 3 and Level 5 Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Live Online courses for the first time.
2018
Paul Jager, Head of Property Agency and Property Law Division at MOL, is invited to speak at the Propertymark Awards 2018, held for the first time at the iconic House of Lords.
2020
We are Gold! We achieve the Feefo Gold Standard Service Award for the first time.
2021
Just a year after receiving the Gold Award, we’re awarded Feefo Platinum Trusted Service status.
2021
Our On Demand delivery option is launched.
2021
Two become one! We merge our B2B offer with Total People to help businesses develop their teams through a range of professional qualifications and apprenticeship pathways.
2022
Leading the way! We’re recognised as the ‘Leading Provider of HR Learning and Development 2022’, at the Global Business Awards by Corporate Vision.
2022
We make all our workbooks and course materials digitally available to our learners.
2022
We’re announced as a CIPD Organisational Delivery Partner.
2023
We partner with Saudi Aramco to deliver professional development courses to their staff. To date, around 350 Saudi Aramco employees have studied with us.
2023
We launch a range of IT courses in partnership with NuYew Tech Academy.
2024
We partner with Greater Manchester Youth Network to deliver the Managing Volunteers module, one of nine CMI Level 3 units that can be specialised in.
2024
We’re jetting off again! We attend the HR & WorkTech Summit in Singapore with CIPD Asia for the very first time.
