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Computing

Course Code: FDC
  • Level: 3
  • Qualification: Certificate
  • Awarding body: Pearson, Business & Technology Education Council (BTEC)
  • Duration: One year
  • Course type: Full-time
  • Time of day: Daytime
  • When you'll study: Four days a week

What's it all about?

This course helps you build essential knowledge, skills, and understanding in computer programming. You’ll develop computational thinking and programming abilities to solve problems effectively.

You’ll also explore key security principles, learning how to safeguard information systems and apply encryption techniques to computer networks in different scenarios.

In addition, you’ll examine the fundamentals of human-computer interaction (HCI) and design an HCI solution based on a given brief. Drawing on your programming knowledge and computational thinking skills, you’ll manage the development of a software solution to a problem.

Course information

Course Units

  • Programming Fundamentals
  • Computer Network Security and Encryption
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Practical Programming

In our experience in order to be successful on this level of course you will need one of the following:

  • four to five GCSEs at grades 9-4 (A*-C) (including English and maths)
  • an intermediate GNVQ in a related subject 
  • a BTEC first diploma in a related subject 
  • an NVQ Level 2/technical certificate in a related subject  
  • successful completion of an Apprenticeship course
  • equivalent qualifications or relevant work experience. 

You will be assessed through exams and internal assessments.

On successful completion of this course, you may progress to:

Please note fees are quoted for one year only.

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Future careers

What you could earn:

IT Business Analysts, Architects and Systems Designers

£97,311.74

Potential salary

£34,139.91

Entry level salary

£56,685.00

Average salary

13

Annual openings in Plymouth

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