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Everything Is Free Until the Certificate

Alison is an online learning platform that launched in 2007 and now carries several thousand courses across business, technology, healthcare, languages, personal development, engineering, marketing and finance. Studying is free and so is completing a course, including the assessments. The catalog splits into two formats. Certificate courses are short, usually a couple of hours of study, and cover a single skill or topic. Diploma courses are longer and go through a subject area in sequence. Both are self-paced with no start dates and no deadlines. The paid part sits at the end: once you have passed, you can buy a document recording it, in digital, printed or framed form, or take a free record instead.

Course Completion, Not a Qualification

An Alison certificate records that you completed a course. It is not a qualification, and Alison says so itself rather than leaving you to find out. It does not substitute for a university degree, a professional license or any regulated credential, and where a job legally requires one of those, this is not it. What it can do is narrower and still real. Many courses carry CPD UK accreditation, which counts toward continuing professional development for people in fields that track it, though whether a particular employer or body accepts it varies. Treat the document as evidence of effort and of a specific skill, useful on a resume or in a conversation, rather than as something that clears a formal requirement.