T-level Courses

Are you interested in working as a nurse, midwife or paramedic?  This ground-breaking course provides a route into these roles. The arrival of our new T-level Building complete with our own Hospital Ward, makes this the course to head for in 2023.

The course is called Adult Nursing, which is ideal for that, but its broad focus on nursing, good practice in health care and understanding the NHS makes it useful in many other branches of health care. A major placement, where you work with patients and health professionals, is a central part of the course and we can try to tailor that to reflect your ambitions. The course is also suitable for those of you who wish to go on to University to study nursing or health at a higher level.

What is different about T-levels is the fact they have been designed and built by employers from the ground up to be a high-level technical qualification that is the equivalent of three A-levels, including all the cutting-edge real requirements for working in the modern workplace. This is THE new gold standard for vocational education. You’ll learn in a way that’s different from school where you’ll be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment and all the essential knowledge needed for the sector of your choice. You can choose from four pathways.

New for 2023 - Floristry is far more than flower arranging. Of course, you will learn all the skills you will need to produce amazing displays, but you will also be designing and making structures for more elaborate installations and learning how to look after flowers. Think of it as 3D art with flowers. Your introduction to all aspects of the business will range from customer care to stock
control to sales. Along the way you will learn all about the land-based sector, some plant biology, design principles and how to use a wide range of tools and materials so that you are ready to move into your career. Besides the familiar high street shops, many florists specialise in wholesale, weddings, corporate events or work freelance. There are many options once you complete your T-level.

New for 2023 - The horticulture industry offers a range of careers and contributes over £24 billion to the UK economy. If you are interested in plants, have a creative flair or enjoy the scientific element, then horticulture could be the course for you. Horticulture will often take the classroom outside for much of the course, where learners will gain an understanding of plants, trees, garden therapy, pest control, aquatics and lawns. Throughout the course you will learn all about their biology and how to grow and keep them healthy. You will learn the skills of landscaping a garden using paths, fences, pergolas and creating planting schemes and how to safely use the tools and materials necessary to complete the jobs. Along the way, you will learn about pest control, soil improvement and how to create habitats for nature. You will explore the wider land-based sector and also the commercial and organisational skills for managing a garden or horticultural business.

T-levels are THE new gold standard for vocational education. This qualification offers young people a fantastic opportunity to gain hands on experience and important theoretical knowledge of how businesses operate, and how they can have a meaningful impact when they enter the workforce. You will be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment as well as all the essential knowledge needed for the sector.

The qualification will help you gain an understanding of the management and administration sector. You will study different types of business, analyse what works and what doesn’t and understand how they innovate and respond to challenges.

As well as a robust work experience element of the course, each student will have the choice of studying one stand alone occupational specialism: Business Improvement, Team Leadership/Management, Business Support.

Do you want a career supporting children/young people through their education and experiences? Then the T-level in Childcare and Education is the course for you. Covering a wide range of aspects of learning, development and offering practical experience, this course would help you prepare for a career as an Early Years Practitioner, Primary School Teacher and many more.

The booming construction industry is an incredibly exciting option for a well-paid, rewarding career. Qualified construction services engineers are on the front line in the battle to cut carbon emissions, and their expertise will become more and more important.

The course covers the skills and knowledge to work with heating, ventilation and other services in buildings. We will be particularly focussing on new green technologies. Activities could include research, and preparing the most effective and efficient heating supply for a refurbished building.

The T-Level, with it’s in-depth, up to date content and brilliant work placement scheme, can lead to a well-paid job with great prospects for progression as soon as you leave college. If you wish, the UCAS points will allow you to go on to university or pursue a degree apprenticeship.

The booming construction industry is an incredibly exciting option for a well-paid, rewarding career. There are so many different job roles we cannot list them all here. The T-Level, with its in-depth content and brilliant work placement scheme, can lead to a well-paid job with great prospects for progression as soon as you leave college. You will study topics that include drawing, surveying, sustainability, design, construction techniques and digital technology. If you wish, the UCAS points will allow you to go on to university and qualify in a profession such as Architecture, Surveying, Civil Engineering, Project Management or Town Planning. The Civil Engineering profession is currently a very good career move, as the larger national infrastructure projects, such as HS2 and Hinckley C Power Station have absorbed most of the skilled people, creating a high demand elsewhere for Civil Engineers

Do you enjoy coding and solving problems? If so this T-level course is for you. Programming and problem-solving are some of the most sought-after skills in the IT industry. Whether you enjoy solving problems or coding for apps and games, this course can open the gate for you into this fantastic rapidly expanding industry. In this qualification you will learn to code in a range of different languages and understand how organisations develop software within the industry.

Data analysis has become a vital element in every organisation from sport performance to marketing. Data technicians are responsible for collecting, analysing, and implementing information, as well as facilitating data storage processes, creating detailed reports based on their work, and providing conclusions based on their observations. This course will help you to develop your skills using databases and spreadsheets and apply them in business contexts. Business analysts use the data to identify new clients, products, improve training and processes, and help their companies become more effective and profitable.

All organisations, private and public sector use information technology and networks to communicate and exchange information, but what happens when these systems go down? Every day organisations face global Cyber threats which can cause considerable disruption. When a Cyber-attack occurs, an organisation can be vulnerable to data breaches and loss of profits both of which could impact their reputation. In the public sector, health service downtime can result in cancelled operations or medical appointments due to equipment not working correctly, which can directly impact a patient’s health. Working in Cyber security can be both exciting and rewarding learning the latest techniques to stay one step ahead of the hackers. This course will give you the skills needed to identify and prevent Cyber threats – you will have the opportunity to attempt ethical hacking in our off-grid sandbox lab and complete vulnerability testing. You will also be monitoring threats in real time and finding innovative ways to intercept them before they cause significant problems. You will be investigating DDOS and ransomware attacks and how to mitigate these. This is an exciting time to join the Cyber and IT security industry and this course will prepare you to enter the industry.

Every organisation needs an IT support team. This course will prepare you to work in a digital IT support role. If you enjoy building and repairing hardware this could be the route for you. Along with technical skills, we will develop your teamwork and personal skills as IT support is always a critical relationship role. You will use the latest hard and software in our brand new digital tech lab and develop these skills. You will be identifying network vulnerabilities, setting up networks, building computers and servers.

Britain leads the world in multiple engineering fields. Do you have an excellent eye for design? Do you want to know how things work? Can you problem solve in creative and imaginative ways? You may just have the right brain for becoming an engineer.
This course takes you on a journey of discovery to help you understand how materials, environment and actual application of engineering can influence design and development of new things. You’ll learn about exciting use of skills to solve real world problems, and also about industry, career opportunities, sustainable green engineering, and the thrust of commercial applications.
You’ll study a common core set of themes that give you a fantastic head start in getting to grips with the world of engineering, then specialisms within the course including electrical, mechanical and structural elements for when you find your aspirational path. All wrapped up with a mammoth 45 days of real world industry placement.

The UK are leading the way in green energy research and practical applications. A key focus of the course will be how sustainable engineering is used, which could lead to specialising in working with the green engineering sectors. You’ll develop a broad understanding of engineering and manufacturing sectors as a part of your core learning. This is further enhanced by exploring themes such as the use of engineering in installation and repair/retrofit situations. There’s a substantial 45 day work placement element to the course that provides valuable industry insight (and a great addition to your CV). There’s also the potential to specialise in areas such as materials technology, processing, manufacture and production.

The global multi-billion-pound sector of manufacturing is fuelled by Engineers constantly innovating to solve our everyday problems. Are you fascinated by how it’s made? Explore diverse industry sectors from car manufacturing to how we feed whole countries. You’ll learn about exciting use of skills to solve real world problems, and also about how industry works based around engineering thinking, career opportunities for engineers, sustainability, and the true potential of engineering in the commercial setting.

There is a huge real-world 45-day industry placement experience built into the course, giving you a real advantage in the employment marketplace. In addition to robust core elements that give you a really good understanding of the sector, you will be able to specialise in an area such as production technologies, process design or materials use.

The financial services industry is one of the largest employers in the UK. It is a diverse industry covering areas such as banking, insurance, and wealth management. Money, protecting our assets and our future wealth are important to all of us. This is a fantastic industry with growing opportunities, calling for a variety of skills from its staff. T-levels are THE new gold standard for vocational education and this course has been designed and built by employers from the ground up to be a high-level technical qualification that’s the equivalent of three A-levels. Including all the cutting-edge real requirements for working in the modern workplace, you’ll be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment, as well as all the essential knowledge needed for the sector of your choice. During the course, you will be able to specialise in a number of specialisms which could include retail or investment banking.

Are you interested in working with science in practical way? Did you know there are technical jobs in everything from chocolate laboratories to cleaning up rivers, bio-chemical analysis, dealing with hazardous materials, and even food development and testing? This T-level is designed to set you on the right path to put your science skills into action. There are so many companies… What is different about this course is the fact it has been designed and built by employers from the ground up to be a high-level technical qualification that’s the equivalent of 3 A Levels, including all the cutting-edge real requirements for working in the modern workplace. This is THE new gold standard for vocational education. You’ll learn in a way that’s different from school where you’ll be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment as well as all the essential knowledge needed for the sector of your choice.

In the last three years, the COVID pandemic has taught us that healthcare and healthcare sciences are vital to the UK. The T-Levels in Health and Science focus on the technical skills needed for the future of this fast-growing sector.

Do you want to work in a hospital supporting healthcare professionals? Healthcare Science includes a very wide range of jobs and roles including working in pharmacies or supporting medical teams in a variety of fields such as radiography, physiotherapy and audiology. On this pathway, you will gain a better understanding of the science sector and further your knowledge including cell cycle and cellular respiration, enzyme and protein structure, pathogens, classification of biological materials, kinetic changes and relevant analytical techniques.

What is different about these courses is the fact they have been designed and built by employers from the ground up to be a high-level technical qualification that is the equivalent of three A-levels, including all the cutting-edge real requirements for working in the modern workplace. This is THE new gold standard for vocational education. You’ll learn in a way that’s different from school where you’ll be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment and all the essential knowledge needed for the sector of your choice. Later in the course, you can choose to specialise in up to four pathways.
Before then we will introduce you to the opportunities and choices within the sector, including different roles, safe practices and how health systems all work together to keep people safe and healthy. Unique to the T-Level, you’ll get the chance to learn practical skills like clinical tasks or taking physiological measurements, and how these can be used to give people the quality care they deserve.

In the last three years, the COVID pandemic has taught us that healthcare and healthcare sciences are vital to the UK. The T-Levels in Health and Science focus on the technical skills needed for the future of this fast-growing sector. Laboratory Science will give you the skills to work in health-sector labs but is sufficiently broad to provide a route either to study science at University or to work in the life sciences commercial sector. If you want to carry on with science but don’t want to follow an A-level route, this is the best alternative.

As with other T-levels, it has been designed and built by employers from the ground up to be a high-level technical qualification that is the equivalent of three Science A-levels, including all the cutting-edge real requirements for working in the modern workplace. This is THE new gold standard for vocational education. You’ll learn in a way that’s different from school where you’ll be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment and all the essential knowledge needed for the sector of your choice.  A key part of this will be a placement, ideally in a lab so that you can learn alongside professionals and bring your knowledge and lab skills together. In College, your lab time will develop your skills in analysis, measurement and processing. In class, you will learn the biology, physics and chemistry that underpins good lab work.

The legal sector is a dynamic and rapidly developing world. The need for a range of business-focussed, legal educational training is continuously growing. This T Level offers learners a fantastic foundation block for going into the industry or university with a range of exciting pathways for learners to specialise in. The 2 year programme is designed to equip ambitious learners with the knowledge and skills that they will need to go into such a stimulating industry. Learners will gain an understanding of how different legal firms work and where they sit within the industry, the language and terminology that is used and the expectations that are set to prepare them for this world of work. All students will also gain the skills needed to succeed including negotiation, initiative, problem solving, working with different people and commercial awareness to name a few.

In the last three years, the COVID pandemic has taught us that healthcare and healthcare sciences are vital to the UK. The T-Levels in Health and Science focus on the technical skills needed for the future of this fast growing sector.
What is different about these courses is the fact they have been designed and built by employers from the ground up to be a high-level technical qualification that is the equivalent of three A-levels, including all the cutting-edge real requirements for working in the modern workplace. This is THE new gold standard for vocational education. You’ll learn in a way that’s different from school where you’ll be developing team and professional skills to get you ready for employment as well as all the essential knowledge needed for the sector of your choice. You can choose from four pathways.
Psychological wellbeing and an individual’s mental health is right at the forefront of society. Do you want to gain early insights into the practice and theory behind our mental health? If so, this might be the course for you if you interested in working in the health and wellbeing sector.