This course is designed to allow you to attend College while in your last year of school, with the aim of preparing you to progress on to the full time Award: Skills for Life or Intermediate Award: Skills for Life courses. This transition course is aimed at those with complex additional support needs. The course will assist you to reach your individual goals and independence while in College. You will develop and enhance your existing skills.
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This is a supported college course aimed at school leavers with additional support needs who have already completed a School-College Partnership course, such as Next Steps, in the final year of their school education.
Enterprise activity
Digital communication methods
Sports and leisure
The world of work
The wider world
Home management
Opportunities to gain experience in a range sectors
The Core Skills of ICT, numeracy and communication will be developed and certificated on this course

The National 5 Administration and IT course provides you with experience of real-life administration tasks and engaging practical activities relevant to the world of work. There is an emphasis on the development of transferable life skills and the application of these skills.

Administrative Practices


IT Solutions for Administrators


Communication in Administration

During the course, you will have the opportunity to try lots of different aspects of engineering and technology so you can find the area that is right for you. You will gain recognised SQA engineering and technology qualifications at SCQF Level 4 as well as wide range of practical experience including real-life situations you could encounter in an industry role. You will get an opportunity to try out a wide-range of different aspects of engineering and these are just some of the areas that will be covered:
Health and Safety Engineering Skills: Mechanical Engineering Skills: Electrical/Electronic Engineering Skills: Fabrication Engineering Skills: Assembly Automotive Skills:...

This qualification is suitable for you if you are employed within the Facilities Management sector and working in or seeking to progress to a supervisory and/or management role. The specific aims of the HNC in Facilities Management are to develop your knowledge and skills in relation to: 

The role of Facilities Manager
The role and management of support services operations within a Facilities Management context
Stakeholder relationships and the Facilities Manager's role in the management of these 
Health and Safety in relation to Facilities Management
Sustainability and environmental issues and their impact within...

Are you interested in the Beauty Industry? This is the course for you if you want a professional career in make up, nails, brows, eyelashes and tanning! There are career pathways into all of these areas of the beauty industry.
This course is a mixture of salon standard VTCT beauty qualifications as well as some SQA qualifications. The VTCT modules of study are in nails, make up, tanning and beauty as well as client services and communication and salon health and safety. The SQA qualifications are in core skills such as communication, working with others, computing and data...

This course will provide you with the range of advanced skills and understanding required to work in a modern business environment. In addition, this course offers a range of options that will provide the opportunity to gain specific knowledge and advanced skills in the fields of administration, accounting and legal services. You will be encouraged to use creativity and innovation by learning different aspects of how to run a business: from marketing and customer service, to legal aspects related to contracts, to IT skills related to how to administer a business. You will study subjects like Contract Law, Marketing, Social...

This course provides an understanding of the care, learning and development of children aged 0–12 years. This includes the home setting and environments whose practice is guided by legislation, policy and professional ethics as well as investigating the roles and responsibilities of parenthood. This course consists of four Units which make up the Group Award for National 5 Early Learning and Childcare

Development and well being of children 
Play in Early Learning and Childcare
Working in Early Learning and Childcare
Care of Children

 
The aims of this course are...

Scottish Wider Access Programmes, also known as SWAP courses, are for adults who have few or no formal qualifications and who have been out of full-time education for at least three years (five years if you have Highers or an HN).
Human development
Social influences
Values and principles
Dementia
Individual behaviour
Group behaviour
Research
Communication
Literature
Biology
Reflective practice

This course should appeal to a broad range of learners who are interested in finding out more about the wider topic of crime. Criminology is essentially a branch of sociology - it requires you to investigate the true nature of crime and consider a number of different perspectives which will enable you to understand criminal behaviors in an objective and analytical way. Much of the course is assessed via open book assignments/reports, in addition to the learner's own investigations. A range of outside speakers from the Scottish Court Service, Police Scotland and Social Work will provide you with a real...