Science

Two years – T Level

The T Level qualification is an exciting brand new two-year full-time course which has been designed in partnership with businesses and employers that is aimed to give you the knowledge and skills to support your move into a career in health or science.

Reasons to join us…

• Strong links with employers to provide a high quality industry experience to prepare you for your future career path. • High quality teaching with specialists from the science sector who have industry experience. • The content of the qualification has been carefully linked to the skills that employers are looking for so that you are industry ready.

What will I study?

Within the core component you will look at the main areas involved in working within the health and science sector, ranging from organisational policies and procedures to the purpose of following professional codes of conduct. Within the science sector specifically you will learn about the diversity of job roles within the science sector and how these roles fit within a larger organisational structure along with how different regulatory standards are adhered to.

You will conduct a huge range of practical experiments to prepare you for the different techniques that you will encounter when on placement. Alongside this you will study the core scientific concepts within each of the science disciplines. Biology: cells and tissues, biological molecules, genetics, microbiology and immunology. Chemistry: materials and chemical properties, acids/ bases and chemical change, rates of reaction and collision theory, chemical analysis of substances. Physics: electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism, waves, particles and radiation and the use of units. These are then extended further in the second-year content. Industry placements provide you with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for skilled employment, allowing you to put into action some of the skills that you have started to use in the classroom.

What’s next?

You could progress onto higher education or you could use the skills you’ve developed throughout the course to gain an apprenticeship or employment in a labbased setting.

Future careers could include radiography technician, forensics laboratory technician amongst others.

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