Full-timeEarly Education and Childcare NC @ SCQF Level 6
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Introduction: If you want to pursue a career working with children and young people, this course will develop your understanding, skills, and existing strengths that would support a career in early learning and childcare. This course aims to effectively prepare you for further study or employment. The NC in Early Education and Childcare...
Day ReleaseFull-timePart TimeChildhood Practice HNC @ SCQF Level 7
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If you want to pursue a career in working with children, this programme provides an opportunity to develop knowledge, experience and skills to gain employment as a Nursery Practitioner in Early Learning and Childcare settings or as a pathway if you wish to undertake further study. Early childhood experiences are now widely recognised as...
Full-timeIntroduction to Events Hospitality (NQ) @ SCQF Level 5
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This course gives you the skills you need to organise and arrange Events and provide great customer care when you’re serving food and drink. You’ll gain real life work experience by serving real food to real customers in our Zest restaurant at our Dumfries Campus. You’ll get ‘hands on’ experience of waiting at tables - explainin...
Full-timeLifeskills (NQ) @ SCQF Level 3
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The purpose of this course is to develop skills that will support you for life and develop your skills towards the world of work. It is an ideal programme if you have successfully completed our Moving on to Further Education course or a similar learning programme and have an interest in continuing in further education with a view to seeki...
Full-timeMoving On to Further Education (NQ) @ SCQF Level 3
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This course could be for you if you feel you would benefit from having a supported learning environment to gain necessary knowledge and skills to help you prepare for progression to further study. If you want an environment that will help you realise what your key strengths are, support you in developing an individualised pathway to expan...
Full-timeOnlineShort CoursesPace – Self Development Pathway
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Each cohort will be made up of about 12-15 young people aged between 16-25 years for a period of 12 weeks. By participating in vocational units this programme aims to support young people to develop their confidence, resilience, and self-esteem. The programme provides a self-development pathway to help participants a develop a positive ap...
Full-timeCyber Security HNC @ SCQF Level 7
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This course gives you the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in areas such as data security and ethical hacking. This course is equivalent to the first year of degree study and we offer this course as a standalone HNC or as part of a three-year programme which will allow you to graduate with the University of West of Scotland Ba...
Full-timeCyber Security HND @ SCQF Level 8
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This course is for students who have completed HNC Cyber Security and who want to progress to a degree in a Computing discipline or into employment in computing-related disciplines. This course is equivalent to the second year of degree study, and we offer this course as a standalone HND or as part of a three-year programme which will al...
Day ReleaseFull-timeBusiness HND @ SCQF Level 8
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This course is for students who have completed HNC Business and who want to progress to a degree in business studies or into employment in business-related disciplines. This course is equivalent to the second year of degree study. We offer this course as a standalone HND or as part of a three-year programme which will allow you to gradua...
Full-timeNursing (SWAP) (NQ) @ SCQF Level 6
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This programme provides a route to university for adults who are returning to education after a substantial period of time. The course is a Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP) and contains a combination of units that meet the entry criteria for entry to the first year of nurse training at university. Almost all of your lessons will be ...