Professional education for working careers
Kai College offers qualifications and training in construction, engineering, management, health care, and beauty and skin care. We deliver our own programmes and work with approved partner centres, so learners can start now while our own approvals are completed.
Three routes to a qualification
Delivered by us
Programmes where Kai College holds the approval directly. Each one lists our centre or member number.
Delivered with a partner
We refer you to an approved partner centre, which registers you with the awarding body. Kai College supports you from enrolment to certification, and our assessors and internal verifiers are approved by the partner centre and work under its quality assurance. Certificates are issued through the partner centre.
Coming soon
Programmes Kai College has applied to deliver, or plans to deliver with a partner still being confirmed. Register interest and we will contact you when the course opens.
Choose a subject area
Each course shows who delivers it and who awards it. Ask us about entry requirements, workplace assessment and funding.
Upskill your workforce
We assess staff in their real workplace, so training fits around live work, whether that is a building site, a care setting or a salon.
Skills review
We review your team's roles and current certification against the qualifications your clients and contracts require.
Training plan
We match each worker to a qualification or short course and set out who delivers it, the timescale and the cost.
Funding check
We help you check what funding or support applies to your sector and help you prepare the application.
Workplace assessment
Occupationally competent assessors gather evidence at work, with internal verification on every portfolio.
Working with approved centres
Where Kai College does not yet hold an approval, we refer learners to partner centres that do and support them throughout the programme. The partner centre is responsible for registration, assessment decisions and certification, and its name and approval appear on every course.
Become a delivery partner
Approved training centres and employers in construction, engineering, management, health care, and beauty and skin care can work with us on learner recruitment, assessment capacity and joint programmes. Contact us to discuss a partnership agreement.
Discuss a partnershipOur approvals
This page shows the current status of each approval. We only list a body as approved once confirmation has been received.
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Our mission
Kai College exists so that skilled people can prove what they can do. Many experienced workers from ethnic minority communities have years of real trade and professional experience but no recognised UK qualification, often because the route to one assumes confident English.
We work to remove that barrier. Learners receive guidance and support in their own language, including Persian, from enrolment to certification, and our assessors focus on the competence each qualification requires. Where a qualification does require English, for example to follow site safety instructions, we help learners build that skill alongside their programme.
The college is open to everyone. It was founded by experienced vocational assessors and internal verifiers, and our systems follow ISO 9001 quality management principles from enrolment through to certification.
Kai College Ltd. was established in 2023 and was previously registered as Pathway Advisors Ltd.
Kai Jamali
Kai Jamali founded Kai College after 20 years of project management in the oil and gas industry. He holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, a master's degree in Project Management from the University of Salford and a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Management from the University of Strathclyde, where he is now a PhD researcher in Management Science.
He has worked as a vocational assessor and internal verifier since 2020, and in 2026 he completed the Construction Senior Management qualification at SCQF level 11.
I have seen too many capable people held back, not by their skills, but because the system expected fluent English before it looked at what they could do. Kai College is my answer to that. Here, every learner is judged on their ability and supported in a language they understand until they hold the qualification they have earned.
Kai Jamali, Founder
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