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Piano Lessons for Beginners
Study music theory and learn to play piano in these lessons that explain basics like keyboard structure, tones and chords until you can play our practice songs.

Pilates Principles - The Fundamentals for Ultimate Full-Body Workout
Improve your health and fitness with this Pilates class that explains how to strengthen your core with exercises like the spine twist, quad stretch and more.

Pillars of Neuro-linguistic Programming
Knowing the four key pillars and the three main perceptual positions of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) will make you a much better communicator.

Pivot & Thrive: How to get Through the Rest of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Gain new tools and ideas to turn the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic into personal and professional opportunities in this free online course.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry for Cloud Development
There’s a lot more to the Cloud than protecting data so take this Cloud computing course to learn how to use Pivotal Cloud Foundry to develop applications.

Planning HR Projects: A Roadmap to Achieving Organizational Goals
Learn to plan HR projects, manage stakeholders, define scope, and create budgets while aligning with organizational goals to boost your career and drive results

Planning for Ultimate Public Speaking Success
Explore public speaking techniques in order to speak to any audience with confidence any time, plan and refine your key messages and importance of storytelling.

Poetry in the Victorian Era
Discover Victorian poetry through close reading of famous works and analysis of the context in which they were written.

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for Nurses
Advance your nursing practice with point of care ultrasound and develop expertise that improves diagnosis, treatment, and patient satisfaction.

Polish for Beginners
Learn Polish in these beginner lessons that cover the alphabet and basic grammar before exploring useful vocabulary you can use to practise your new skills.

Portuguese for Beginners
Learn Portuguese in these beginner lessons that cover the alphabet and basic grammar before providing vocabulary you can use to practise your newfound skills.

Portuguese for Complete Beginners
Learn Portuguese in these beginner Portuguese lessons that cover grammar and provide useful vocabulary to quickly get you practising your newfound skills.

Postmodern Cinema and Westerns
This free online film studies course explains the role of cinematic genre through a close study of postmodern films, gangster movies and westerns.

Power Automate for Beginners
This free online course breaks down all you need to know about creating workflows, triggers, actions and dynamic content in Microsoft’s Power Automate tool.

Power Query and Power Pivot in Microsoft Excel
This data science course explains how to use Microsoft Excel’s Power Query and Power Pivot features to efficiently model, analyse and manipulate data.

PowerPoint for Business Communication
Learn the methods, tools and techniques on how to prepare properly structured MS PowerPoint presentations that will appeal to a wide variety of audiences.

Practical Guide to Soap Making
Embark on a journey of self-sufficiency by learning how to make all-natural soaps tailored to your preferences, using safe and eco-friendly ingredients.

Practical QHSE Management for Operational Excellence
Learn how to organise QHSE roles, manage daily controls and improve safety performance through clear execution, monitoring and response strategies.

Practical Stress Management for Life & Work
This practical and easy-to-follow stress management course will teach you techniques to reduce and manage stress both personally and professionally.

Practical Zendesk for Customer Service
Learn how to manage customer tickets, respond faster, automate workflows, build self-service options and improve customer service performance using Zendesk.

Pre-Calculus: Polar Coordinates, Sequences and Series
Explore basic calculus in this pre-calculus course that combines algebra and trigonometry to learn how polar coordinates function on a Cartesian plane.

Precalculus: Polynomial Functions and Rational Inequalities
This free, self-paced math course breaks down important elements of precalculus like polynomial functions and equations in preparation for doing calculus.

Preeclampsia Diagnosis and Management
Learn to diagnose, manage, and coordinate care for preeclampsia to ensure better outcomes for mothers and newborns with practical, evidence-based strategies.

Pregnancy Care: From Conception to Delivery
This important free course in non-technical language is very useful for expectant mothers and those involved with caring for pregnant women and newborn infants.