L3 - BTEC National Foundation Diploma in Information Technology

L3 - BTEC National Foundation Diploma in Information Technology 4 GCSE grade 4 and above including Maths and English Language.

The majority of our students progress to universities. Where they study a wide variety of degrees including Cyber security, Ethical Hacking, Cyber Forensics, Computer Science, Games programming and Networking.

For those students not wishing to progress to university, comprehensive support is provided to help them find alternatives such as employment or apprenticeship with blue chip companies.

For further information please contact STEP@stcg.ac.uk

Extended Diplomas are delivered as two one year programmes:

Year 1 - Foundation Diploma

Year 2 - Diploma/Extended Diploma

Students are expected to satisfactorily complete the Extended Certificate programme prior to being considered appropriate for a year 2 qualification.

Assessment will be by assignments, presentations, observation of practical work and practical lab written reports. There will also be externally assessed units which will be a mixture of timed exams and timed set tasks depending on the units.