HNC Hairdressing will build on your previous qualifications and experience, through enhancing your creative skills and artistic abilities. This will be achieved through learning advanced hairdressing techniques and producing comprehensive portfolios.The course will include, advanced techniques within creative cutting, creative colouring, creative styling. Why choose this course You will learn in a salon environment; guest speakers will tell you about career options; and additional courses will keep you up to date with trends.

HNC Healthcare Practice is an innovative course designed to equip you with essential clinical knowledge and understanding.The course includes: Safe Working Practice for Care Clinical Skills for Care Practitioners - including practical skills and calculations Professional Standards for Care Practice The Human Body on Health and Illness Understanding Personal and Professional Development Sociology and Health in Scotland Therapeutic Relationships: Understanding Behaviour Exploring Mental Health Healthcare Practice Graded Unit 1 Why choose this course You will develop your skills and relate theory to practice through work experience within NHS...

HNC Professional Cookery is an advanced level course designed for chefs aspiring to progress to a higher level in professional cookery and culinary arts, who will lead a team in the future.The course includes a wide variety of units to ensure you are ready for the world of work and competent in your future career path. These include: Hot and cold kitchen preparation Integrated production cookery Sweets and desserts preparation Professional Cookery graded unit Hospitality supervision Hospitality finance and control Food hygiene Food classification and purchasing Work Experience You will learn in practical and theoretical classes, and in our award-winning...

This course is for those who want to learn about competing views, perspectives, theories and evidence in social science subjects such as psychology, sociology and philosophy. You will explore the historical development of these subject areas and investigate specific topics and apply your knowledge.The course includes: Psychology Sociology Criminology Research methodology Variety of other units Why choose this course You will have the opportunity to develop skills that will fully prepare you for higher education at University e.g. critical and evaluative thinking, problem solving, communication and presentation skills. The course will...

Please be aware this course is now full. Alternatively, you can explore other courses on our website or email choosecollege@west-lothian.ac.uk if you wish to speak to a member of staff.

This course is for those who want a career as a senior care worker within a social care setting or to progress to University for Social work or Community education.The course includes: Care in contemporary society Leadership Health, wellbeing and safeguarding Lifespan development Theoretical approaches Promoting health, safety and security in the work setting Developing practice through reflection and learning Promoting effective communication Care practice Why choose this course You will gain experience though...

This course is for students who have achieved the HNC in accounting (level 7) and is designed to increase competence in financial and management accounting.

This course will be delivered on campus.The course covers all aspects of accounting practice, and includes opportunities for work placements and volunteering. You will learn more about management and financial accounting, business taxation, skills in researching, evaluating and interpreting financial data, awareness and application of current accounting standards and legislation, providing information for decision-making and control. Why choose this course You will gain work experience through work placement and/or volunteering...

Please be aware this course is now full. However we are operating a waiting list.
Alternatively, you can explore other courses on our website or email choosecollege@west-lothian.ac.uk if you wish to speak to a member of staff.

This course is aimed at those with qualifications in beauty therapy who would like to further develop their theoretical and practical skills. Once completed, this course prepares students for beauty or spa therapist, salon manager or owner/self-employed.

Successful completion of this course allows students direct entry into year 3 of the BSc (hons) Integrative Healthcare at the University of Highlands and Islands.The...

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. It includes work experience through placements and/or volunteering.You will learn about business contractual relationships, preparing financial forecasting, behavioural skills and the world economy. Today, social media is an important part of business, so we've updated the course to include Visual Communication: Social Media. A final graded project assesses your ability to apply what you have learned to a real-world business. Why choose this course Completing this HND allows you into year...

This course allows you to improve your career prospects by studying at a more advanced level and to progress to SCQF level 9 courses. Level 9 is required by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) for managers in the sector.The course includes: Pedagogical approaches Team-working and leadership Integrated working and collaborative practice Two SVQ level 4 units relating to leading on the Creativity and Communication of children and young people Opportunity to lead and implement projects involving children and young people Why choose this course You will gain work experience from work placements,...

Please be aware this course is now full. However we are operating a waiting list.
Alternatively, you can explore other courses on our website or email choosecollege@west-lothian.ac.uk if you wish to speak to a member of staff.

This course is for those wanting to develop the software skills needed for the expanding software sector. You will learn about software design, object-oriented programming in C#, scripting in Python, techniques to manage/store/process big data, multi-user operating systems, SQL and database designThe course includes: Object-oriented programming Object-oriented analysis and design Data structures Testing software Data Science Mobile web based applications Database Design Fundamentals SQL:...