ALL NEW INDEPENDENTLY-CERTIFIED QUALIFICATIONS FOR 2025
The UKTA are developing courses to be more flexible and accessible. The qualifications will be made up of individual units taught by our acclaimed international tutors. Each unit builds towards a qualification.
This is where professional tea learning begins and opens the way to a career in tea.
TEA ESSENTIALS AWARD AVAILABLE NOW
This is where future tea experts begin. Open to everyone, it is a self-guided online course providing a solid introduction to the categories of tea, their provenance and production, history and culture and the Art of Tea Brewing.
NEW UKTA COURSES LAUNCHING 2025
Tea Guide is the next step in familiarising yourself with the categories of tea. You will have specific teas sent to you according to which unit you sign up to – either Unit 1: White & Green or Unit 2: Oolong & Black. A UKTA tutor guides you through the tasting to give you a better understanding of provenance and processing.
Tea Sommelier Hospitality Award is aimed at those who work in hospitality or the tea industry. It is a lively interactive, practical approach to what is involved with being a Tea Sommelier.
World Tea Diploma gives a thorough understanding of a broad selection of regional teas. Each unit includes a selection of teas and a UKTA regional specific tutor leads you through the tasting, culture, processing and background of each tea.
Tea Essentials Award
The Tea Essentials Award is where every future tea expert begins.
It is for the two billion people in the world who love tea and either work with tea or are simply tea-curious.
Tea is a fascinating subject encompassing biology and geography, science and health, social history, culture and global economics. But it starts here with looking at the tea plant and how the leaves are crafted into the tea we drink.
You’ll learn how tea travelled from China to the rest of the world, the differences between white, green, oolong and black teas and in our introduction to the Art of Brewing Tea, how attention to detail brings out the best from the leaves.
And when you’re done, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one of our tea tutors in a live webinar. They can answer any questions and talk you through the next steps.
You’ll find a whole range of UKTA units and qualifications will open up for you.
2 Core units required:
Tea Knowledge
Tea Skills
UNIT LENGTH
About 2 hours of learning per unit
