This full-time course is normally taught over a period of 10 months at locations across England and Wales. It requires a commitment from each candidate to attend taught workshop sessions as agreed. In addition, guided learning will, from time to time, include a tutor lead Skype tutorial sessions with your designated tutor. The class size is always kept small to ensure that the learning experience is relevant to individual and that each person gets get the maximum benefit from their dedicated tutor. Over 90% of our current students in South Wales and Tidworth are serving members of the civilians and armed forces, veterans and spouses. The age range is normally from 21-60 years old with the vast majority being admitted to the programme as a mature student via an initial interview and as they might not have the traditional university entry qualifications.

2. CERT HE - Skills for the Work Place
Overview
• Cert HE Skills for the Workplace is delivered in partnership with the University of
Wales Trinity Saint David
• The Certificate in Skills for the Workplace is designed to provide you with an
opportunity to study for an award explicitly focused towards future employability
and career progression.
• The programme is specifically created in its content and flexible delivery to give
you the confidence to anticipate problems and find solutions, to work independently
and with other people, to plan things out before you start and complete the things
you've started, in short to develop the skills that employers want!
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4. • You could develop your SKILLS, IMPROVE your self-confidence and
enhance your CAREER Development.
• Designed to give you the tools to apply your personal transferrable skills to the
workplace;
– the confidence to anticipate problems and find solutions,
– to work independently and with other people,
– to plan things out before you start and complete the things that you’ve start
… the skills that Armed Forces and civil employers want!
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Want to make progress in your workplace?
Then DEVELOP your SKILLS and step on to the CAREER ladder!

5. • Cert HE Skills for the Workplace combined with ILM Level 4 qualification in
Leadership and Management is ideal for Armed Forces Personnel aspiring to move
into leadership and management positions, but have no formal training, and who are
serious about enhancing their professional development.
• Cert HE is an excellent tool for Armed Forces personnel to start considering skills
transitional skills in the early stages of their careers.
• Cert HE particularly supports managers who need to lead people though
organizational change, budget cuts or other pressures.
• Cert HE supports the development of armed Forces Spouses who wish to gain new
career skills and an opportunity to interact socially within the wider community.
• Cert HE supports Veterans who wish to enhance existing skills and develop new
skills in order to compete with the challenges of civvie street
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Who are these qualifications for?

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7. What do we offer?
• University Certificate in Higher Education in Skills for the Workplace.
• ILM Certificate in Leadership Management.
• All gained within one year of study.
• Flexible delivery locally, plus two residential weekends paid for by the
University.
• Attendance on two weekend days per month plus weekly evening classes and
regular online Skype tutorials over a ten month period.
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8. What will I learn?
• You will learn a wide range of skills considered
by employers to be critical workplace skills:
Academic and
Employability Skills
Digital Skills and
Research Methods
Effective Team Working and
Communication
Problem Solving and
Decision Making
Professional Career Development Managing Enterprise in the 21st Century
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10. CERT HE - Skills for the Work Place Modules
• Smart Technology in the
Workplace
• Personal Development for
Employment
• Projects: Sustainability and
Global Citizenship
• Skills for Self Employment
• Project Planning
• Problem Solving
• Employability
• Researching and Analyzing Data
• Working in Teams
• Communication Skills
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11. How will I learn?
• You will learn through participating in regular class based sessions in a small group.
• We use a discussion based approach to your learning, where your experiences are
discussed in the context of the course.
• We will also support you through Skype and you will find that you will support one
another.
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13. CERT HE - Skills for the Work Place
Benefits To Learners
New workplace skills
• Increased confidence
• Increased self awareness
• Increased strategic awareness
• Enhanced people management skills
• Managing change more effectively
• Improved networks
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14. Benefits
• New workplace skills
• Earn more – on average of £236/week over a working life up to 60 compared with
someone with “A” levels or an “L3 NVQ”
• Internationally recognised professional & academic qualifications
• Certificate in Higher Education
• Opportunity to gain a BA Honours degree in Leadership & Management (Skills for the
Workplace)
• Cap & Gown graduation
• Bonus – ILM Certificate in Leadership & Management
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Benefits to the Armed Forces & Future Employers
1. Increased employee moral through personal development opportunities
2. Increase in productivity
3. Highly effective team
4. Improving employee’s confidence
5. Enhancing working relationships
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17. Assessment
• NO EXAMS
• 6 x 20 credit modules
• Each 20 credit module will have two forms of assessment – each worth 50% of the
module marks.
• Assessment is varied and comprises a mix of written work based assignments,
research reports, reflective reviews, presentations, a group business plan, recorded
interview and a poster presentation.
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18. Your Commitment
• To attend regularly and participate in the class based learning discussions.
• To work with your tutors and your class members at each session.
• To manage your time – which can be the biggest challenge for most people who
come on the course
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Frequently Asked Questions:
• I don’t have any qualifications
– As long as you can pass a small pre-assessment set at Level 3 standard then you are on
the way to becoming a University graduate.
– On successful completion of the Cert HE, there is the option to progress to the BA
(Hons) Management Skills for the Workplace program and you could obtain your Honors
degree with a further two years study!
• I will find it too difficult?
• I won’t have enough time to fit it in with other priorities?
• I’m too old to study
– Cert HE in Management Skills for the Workplace has eliminated most of barriers to
make this learning experience more accessible.
– Full support is provided by Tutors with extensive experience in business rather than
traditional university lecturers
– The course is structured into flexible modules to fit around busy schedules
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20. CERT HE - Skills for the Work Place
Frequently Asked Questions: Funding
• I won’t be eligible for funding?
– Students are eligible for funding as long as they do not already have a 1st
degree
– CERT HE is classed as a full time course therefore the full range of student
benefits are available and can be discussed with Student Finance Services
– £1,000 bursaries available
– No up-front fees - tuition fee loan repayments start when you earn over
£21,000 per year and all studies are complete
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