Higher Level Skills - The Benefits to YOU
City College Plymouth offers a wide range of opportunities to help you enhance the capacity and talents of your workforce by engaging with cost effective university-level training and development.
Our courses are available on a flexible, part-time and modular basis; many in partnership with Plymouth University. Therefore, you can access accredited continuous professional development programmes, higher education short courses and foundation degrees.
What is a foundation degree?
Foundation degrees combine work-based learning with academic study and are designed in partnership with employers. They allow you to enhance competitiveness, performance and profitability by developing the higher-level skills and knowledge of your workforce.
Our range of part-time foundation degree subject areas includes:
- accounting and finance
- administrative management
- business management
- construction and civil engineering
- electrical and electronic engineering
- financial services
- hospitality management
- human resource management
- legal studies
- salon and spa management.
What is a higher education (HE) short course?
HE short courses are part-time, university-level courses which can be tailored to your business. They allow individuals to develop higher-level skills to support their careers without having to commit to a full qualification. In partnership with Plymouth University, we can offer higher education modules from any of our full or part-time foundation degrees, or develop new modules to specifically meet your needs.
What is a certificate of professional development?
Staff can follow a tailor-made, university-level programme of 60 credits (usually three modules) from the range of foundation degree courses offered by the College and validated by the University of Plymouth. Programmes can be specifically created to suit a number of sectors.
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Benefits to YOUR Business
- Improved competitiveness, productivity and profitability
- Increased capacity
- More highly skilled and flexible workforce
- Enables sustained growth
- Improved morale and retention
- Enhanced succession planning
- Work-based projects
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Benefits to YOUR Employees
- Increased skills and knowledge
- Increased morale
- More able and confident
- Formal qualifications, where qualifications are accredited
- Combination of academic and work-based learning
- Builds on existing skills and experience
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If you would like to find out more about how we can help you develop your workforce please contact our Higher Education team on 01752 305878 or e-mail he@cityplym.ac.uk.
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