Short courses you can start today.
Self-paced online courses for people deciding what to do next. Enrol, work through it in your own time on any device, pass the final assessment and collect an EAL Learn+ Certificate of Completion.
Introduction to Plumbing
Careers, systems, materials, tools, qualifications and costs — the whole picture before you commit.
One course, open for enrolment
More are in development. This is the first, and it is the one people ask for most: what plumbing actually involves, and how you get into it.
Introduction to Plumbing
Thirty hours that take you from “I think I might want to be a plumber” to knowing exactly what the trade involves, what it pays, which course to take, how to get the experience nobody tells you about, and what the tools and materials really cost.
- Six units with interactive tools — a career explorer, a system schematic, a kit builder, a route builder and two costing calculators
- An animated explainer, The Route In, comparing four ways people get into the trade
- A 20-question final assessment with unlimited attempts and full explanations
- An EAL Learn+ Certificate of Completion at 80% or above, issued immediately
- No entry requirements and no previous experience needed
- 01 Careers in plumbing
- 02 How a system works
- 03 Materials and pipework
- 04 Tools and kit
- 05 Courses and qualifications
- 06 Experience and costs
Courses in development
The same format, the same thirty hours, the same certificate. Built one at a time so each one is worth the money.
Introduction to Electrical Installation
What the trade involves, the 18th Edition, the qualification routes and the route to becoming a registered electrician.
30 hours · coming soonIntroduction to Welding & Fabrication
Processes, materials, coding, the tickets that matter and where fabrication work actually is.
30 hours · coming soonIntroduction to Heat Pumps & Renewables
Where heating is heading, what installers need, and how a plumbing background converts into low-carbon work.
30 hours · coming soonIntroduction to Engineering Maintenance
Mechanical and electrical maintenance, fault finding, planned maintenance and the routes into industry.
30 hours · coming soonWant to be told when the next one opens? Email learn@eal.org.uk.
Four steps, and you set the pace
Enrol
One payment. No subscription, no renewal and no expiry date on your access.
Work through it
Six units, in your own time, on a phone, a tablet or a laptop. Stop and start as often as you like.
Sit the assessment
Twenty questions drawn from every unit. Unlimited attempts, with every answer explained after marking.
Get your certificate
Score 80% or more and your certificate is issued on the spot, with your name, the date and your score.
What these courses are, and are not
Knowledge courses
Structured, current and written by people who know the sector. They give you the whole picture of a trade before you commit years and thousands of pounds to it, and they point you at the right qualification rather than the one that markets hardest.
A licence to work
An EAL Learn+ Certificate of Completion records a 30-hour learning activity. It is not a regulated qualification and it does not confer competence to carry out plumbing, gas, electrical or any other restricted work. Every course says so plainly, on the certificate itself.