All Certification Courses

This course aims to provide knowledge of personal computer hardware. Successful completion of this course will enable learners to install a computer system unit and operating system and conduct troubleshooting. The course provides the essential knowledge of computer hardware, the software needed to make a hardware work, the components of the hardware and the technologies and principles that support the components. In addition to this knowledge, learners will be able to assemble computer hardware to build a full set PC, understand how to install the operation system and how to conduct troubleshooting in faulty hardware.

The Strategic Project Management module provides learners with fundamental methodologies, modelling, and analytical techniques to design and implement projects across different sectors. It aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to understand how effective project management contributes to organisational success. By the end of the module, learners will be able to understand project management principles, concepts, and theory, critically analyze complex problems, demonstrate critical awareness of the different steps of the project management process, and handle complex projects involving multidisciplinary stakeholders under conditions of uncertainty and change.

This module familiarises learners with the significance of institutional culture by exploring analytical models that provide a research foundation for understanding how cultures function within an educational context. It examines the aspects of leadership behaviour that shape a school’s culture, and investigates the dynamics through which change is either promoted or hindered.

The course will investigate underlying models, techniques and theories that underpin marketing and can contribute to strategic objectives. It will also provide learners with a critical understanding of the marketing function within complex organisations.

This unit aims to provide learners with the necessary knowledge and understanding in order to manage innovation and change in computing environments. Learners will explore that change is constant and the importance of understanding and applying a process for managing change within an organisation. There will be a focus on innovation and changes that are common across the computing industry.

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The aim of this unit is to reveal the sequential development and guideline of accounting and the impact of accounting and finance on the environment, the various stakeholders and on society. The learners will be equipped with the knowledge and skills essential to act as an adviser in relation to the governing authorities in the private, public and charitable sectors.

The aim of this course is to enable learners to understand the main elements that influence the performance of employees at all levels within an organisation and the ways in which such elements can be managed in a constructive manner. Further to provide learners with understanding to devise and implement appropriate HR practices and strategies that relate to Performance Management.

This course aims to provide learners with knowledge of business to consumer e-commerce. This includes the concepts and techniques used in mobile e-commerce and ticketing, the psychology of marketing, artificial intelligence (AI) in image recognition and social commerce.

The aim of this course is to develop learners’ research skills to include understanding different research approaches, formulation of research proposals, planning research activity, analysing and interpreting data, and the relationship between research and evidence-based practice.

This course equips individuals with the proficiency required for managing and implementing training plans and delivery that are three-dimensional and transformative. Participants will delve into and acquire a robust understanding of theoretical principles and their best-practice applications. Moreover, participants will have the chance to connect these theoretical principles to the practical scenarios where they are tasked with the planning and execution of training. Emphasising the empowerment of participants to become adept practitioners in workforce training and development, the course thoroughly explores critical reflection on the research-informed key areas of the combined training planning and delivery process.

Being an advanced course, it is expected that attendees will possess a refined capability to critically evaluate and interpret academic theories. Consequently, the course demands that each participant proactively meet the essential criteria for every module. This course is not only suitable for those tasked with training plan formulation and execution but also for individuals responsible for managing, overseeing, coordinating, or leading training and development initiatives within any organisation. A principal requirement of this course is for each participant to create and present a defence of a training plan.

This course will allow learners to take a problem solving approach, initially defining issues and then looking at options, before selecting an appropriate route to change. Finally, the course looks at planning for implementation and evaluation of the change itself. There will be an emphasis on involving those directly affected, to gain their experience and knowledge as well as their commitment to, and ownership of, the change itself. Throughout the course, importance will be placed the need to manage and control the change process by effective monitoring and evaluation. Various change models will be used as the basis of activity. The aim of this model is to introduce different models and practices of change management.

This course aims to explain the concepts of photo editing. This will enable learners to insert photos into documents such as user manuals and the IT structure of an organization. The photos may need to be touched up before they are ready for use. This mainly involves using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for photo/image editing and designing. The course delivers skills in photo retouching and digital drawing to address the issues of digital image design. It emphasizes exploration, techniques, media, ideas development and production techniques.

The aim of this unit is to help learners understand the ability to choose and apply suitable investigative techniques to a variety of situations that are simple and non-simple in the accounting environment. The unit provides an emphasis on the aims, objectives and methods of auditors and their contribution to the achievement of a true and fair view on the published accounts.

In this course the learner will look at the component parts of digital communications and interoperability with IT networks, hardware, firmware and software components. The inherent insecurity of the internet will be described and discussed. What are the basics of computer science and technology? How do computers communicate with one another? How can networks communicate and how can we plan their security architecture in a more proactive and organised manner?

The second half of this unit will look at security planning and core concepts including ‘security engineering’, systems hardening and cyber resilience.