Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs)
What is a Higher Technical Qualification or HTQ?
Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs) are level 4 or 5 qualifications that have been quality marked by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to indicate their alignment to employer-led occupational standards. You can therefore be assured that these qualifications will prepare you as you look to enter into a new career, or progress within your current role.
Our HTQ Courses
Engineering
Course Summary
This course is for those wishing to develop higher-level professional skills relevant to the mechanical engineering sector. The Level 4 units lay the foundation of learning by providing a broad introduction to the engineering sector as well as a focused introduction to mechanical engineering. This develops and strengthens core skills while preparing you for more specialist subjects at Level 5 or to enter employment with the qualities necessary for job roles that require some personal responsibility.
You will gain a wide range of scientific and engineering knowledge linked to practical skills obtained through research, independent study, directed study and workplace scenarios.
Modules
- Mechanical Principles
- Fluid Mechanics
- Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines
- Quality and Process Improvement
- Production Engineering for Manufacture
- Engineering Design
- Engineering Maths
- Managing a Professional Engineering Project
Course Summary
The Level 4 units lay the foundation of learning by providing a broad introduction to the engineering sector as well as a focused introduction to electrical and electronic engineering. This develops and strengthens core skills while preparing you for more specialist subjects at Level 5 or to enter employment with the qualities necessary for job roles that require some personal responsibility.
You will gain a wide range of scientific and engineering knowledge linked to practical skills obtained through research, independent study, directed study and workplace scenarios. You will be involved in vocational activities that help you to develop behaviours (the attitudes and approaches required for a competence) and transferable skills. Transferable skills are those such as communication, teamwork, research and analysis, which are highly valued in higher education and in the
workplace.
Modules
- Production Engineering Manufacture
- Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Electrical and Electronic Principles
- Quality Process and Improvement
- Electrical Machines
- Engineering Design
- Engineering Maths
- Managing a Professional Engineering Project
Construction
Course Summary
The course aims to develop you as a professional, self-reflecting individual able to meet the demands of employers in the construction sector and adapt to a constantly changing world.
Modules
- Construction Design Project
- Construction Technology or Civil Engineering Technology
- The Construction Environment
- Legal and Statutory Requirements in Construction
- Digital Applications for Construction Information or Digital Applications for Building Information Modelling
- Surveying, Measuring & Setting-out
- Financial Management & Business Practices in Construction
- Site Supervision & Operations
Course Summary
The course aims to develop you as a professional, self-reflecting individual able to meet the demands of employers in the construction sector and adapt to a constantly changing world.
Modules - Level 4
- Construction Design Project
- Construction Technology Civil Engineering Technology
- The Construction Environment
- Legal and Statutory Requirements in Construction
- Digital Applications for Construction Information or Digital Applications for Building Information Modelling
- Surveying, Measuring & Setting-out
- Financial Management & Business Practices in Construction
- Site Supervision & Operations
Modules - Level 5
- Group Project
- Project Management
- Personal Professional Development
- Construction Technology for Complex Buildings Projects
- Maintenance & Operations
Plus three optional units chosen by the course team.
Course Summary
This programme is designed to develop you as a professional, self-reflecting individual able to meet the demands of employers in the construction sector and adapt to a constantly changing world, with an emphasis on design and build requirements.
Modules
- Construction Design Project
- Construction Technology or Civil Engineering Technology
- The Construction Environment
- Legal and Statutory Requirements in Construction
- Digital Applications for Construction Information or Unit 26: Digital Applications for Building Information Modelling
- Financial Management & Business Practices in Construction
- Tender & Procurement
- Building Information Modelling
Course Summary
This programme is designed to develop you as a professional, self-reflecting individual able to meet the demands of employers in the construction sector and adapt to a constantly changing world, with an emphasis on design and build requirements.
Modules - Level 4
- Construction Design Project
- Construction Technology or Civil Engineering Technology
- The Construction Environment
- Legal and Statutory Requirements in Construction
- Digital Applications for Construction Information or Unit 26: Digital Applications for Building Information Modelling
- Financial Management & Business Practices in Construction
- Tender & Procurement
- Building Information Modelling
Modules - Level 5
- Group Project
- Personal Professional Development
- Project Management
- Advanced Construction Drawing & Detailing
- Construction Technology for Complex Buildings Projects
Plus three additional optional units chosen by the course team.
Course Summary
The course aims to develop you as a professional, self-reflecting individual able to meet the demands of employers in the construction sector and adapt to a constantly changing world.
Modules
- Construction Design Project
- Construction Technology or Unit 17: Civil Engineering Technology
- The Construction Environment
- Legal and Statutory Requirements in Construction
- Digital Applications for Construction Information
- Building Information Modelling
- Principles of Refurbishment
- Digital Applications for Building Information Modelling
Digital
Modules - Level 4
- Professional Practice in the Digital Economy
- Innovation & Digital Transformation
- Cyber Security
- Programming
- Big Data & Visualisation
- Networking in the Cloud
- Security
- Networking
Modules - Level 5
- Business Intelligence
- Internet of Things
- Emerging Technologies
- Applied Security in the Cloud
- Applied Cryptography in the Cloud
- Information Security Management in the Cloud
Plus two additional optional units chosen by the course team.
Modules - Level 4
- Professional Practice in the Digital Economy
- Innovation & Digital Transformation
- Cyber Security
- Programming
- Big Data & Visualisation
- Networking in the Cloud
- Database Design & Development
- Software Development Lifecycles
Modules - Level 5
- Business Intelligence
- Internet of Things
- Emerging Technologies
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Advanced Programming
- Risk Analysis & Systems Testing
Plus two additional optional units chosen by the course team.
Health
Course Summary
This programme is aimed particularly at healthcare assistants and care workers, and is designed to offer flexible study so that it is suitable if you are already in work.
It has been designed in conjunction with local employers (the Primary Care Trusts and the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Trust) and is an ideal first level HE qualification for healthcare workers in both the public and private sector.
This course will be delivered through workshops, lectures, presentations, seminars and group activities.
Year 1 / Level 4
- Academic and Professional Skills
- Cognitive and Biological Systems
- Health and Nutrition
- Law, Ethics and Safeguarding
- Person Centred Care
- Practice and Policy in Healthcare
Year 1 / Level 5
- Anthropometry and Recovery
- Human Growth and Development
- Human Pathology
- Service Improvement
- Professional Practice (40 credits)
Course Summary
This programmes is aimed particularly at healthcare assistants and care workers, and is designed to offer flexible study so that it is suitable if you are already in work.
It has been designed in conjunction with local employers (the Primary Care Trusts and the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust) and is an ideal first level HE qualification for healthcare workers in both the public and private sector.
The emphasis on skills for work means that this is a truly vocational programme and will enable you to both ground your learning in the workplace as well as reflect on work practice in an academic context. Students in employment will be expected to receive practical and enabling support from their employers.
Year 1 / Level 4
- Academic and Professional Skills
- Cognitive and Biological Systems
- Law, Ethics and Safeguarding
- Mental Health and Society
- Person Centred Care
- Practice and Policy in Mental Health Care
Year 2 / Level 5
- Assessment and Risk
- Human Growth and Development
- Intervention and Recovery in Mental Health
- Service Improvement
- Professional Practice
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