Flexible Lifelong Learning
- Buyer
- Cardiff University
- Value
- £5,000,000
- Closes
- 17 November 2026
- Where
- Cardiff, Wales
- Type
- Open tender
In plain English
Cardiff University is looking for an outside company to help it design, launch and grow a range of fully online postgraduate courses through its new Institute for Flexible Lifelong Learning. The first courses are due to open for applications in Spring or Summer 2027, with the first students starting in the 2027/28 academic year. The contract is worth about £5 million.
What the buyer wants
• Specialist expertise to develop and launch fully online postgraduate programmes, including course design support and planning for the 2027/28 intake • Operational support to recruit students and run the programmes once they are live, including marketing, admissions and student services • Ongoing growth support for the wider portfolio of online courses, working as a long-term flexible partner to the University
Likely requirements
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The contract is worth about £5 million and needs a proven record running online degree-level programmes for universities, so a small business without a large, established education delivery track record and the financial strength to back a multi-year partnership would almost certainly be excluded.
How to bid
This is an open tender: any eligible business can respond directly to the buyer by the deadline, with no framework membership needed.
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