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BTEC Introductory Diploma, Information Technology at Work Level 1
This course is offered at Chatham South School and is open to students in the Chatham Sixth Form Consortium.

Text Processing OCR Level 1
This course is offered by Medway Adult Learning Service at their Gillingham Centre.

CLAIT OCR Level 1
These courses are run by Medway Adult Education Service :CLAIT Level 1 for Beginners runs at Rochester Maths School, CLAIT level 1 runs at Gillingham, CLAIT (fast track) and CLAIT (flexible learning) run at Rochester.

BTEC First Diploma for ICT Practitioners.
At: Mid Kent College (City Way and Oakwood Park)
Course Codes: 60C105/1A and 60P105/1A
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: 4 GCSEs at grade |D or above or a Foundation GNVQ and a supporting reference

Also at: North West Kent College (Dartford and Gravesend)
Course Code: 2ITSST-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: GCSEs minimum grade D in English or Maths or equivalent

Schools in the Chatham Sixth Form Consortium and North Medway Partnership also run this course as may schools in the Dartford and Gravesham areas.

Foundation Course in Computing ( DIDA)
At: Mid Kent College (Horsted and Oakwood Park)
Course Codes: 60C114/1A and 60P114/1A
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: 4 GCSEs at grade F or above and a supporting reference. Candidates without these requirements may be accepted at the discretion of the programme manager.

Introductory Diploma for IT @ Work
At: North West Kent College (Dartford and Gravesend)
Course Code: 2IDITW-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: GCSEs at D/E grades

Text Processing OCR Level2
This course is offered by Medway Adult Learning service at their Gillingham centre.

Interactive Diploma in IT
At: North West Kent College (Dartford and Gravesend)
Course Code: 2FDC-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: GCSEs minimum grade D in English and Maths or equivalent

CLAIT Plus OCR Level 2
This course is offered by Medway adult Learning Service at their Rochester, Gillingham and Chatham South centres.

Information Technology Level 2 and ICT OCR National Certificate
These are run by one school in the Chatham Sixth Form Consortium and one in the Rochester and Walderslade Partnership. Various ICT courses are run by schools in Dartford and Gravesham.

ECDL
A flexible learning ECDL course is offered by Medway Adult Learning Service at their Gillingham centre.
The ECDL (BCS level 2) is offered at Dartford and Swale Adult Education Centres.

AS/A2 Computer Science
This course is offered at schools in the Chatham Sixth Form Consortium and Rainham Sixth Form Consortium and some schools in the Dartford and Gravesham areas.

AS/A2 Information Communications Technology
ICT and Applied ICT course
At: Mid Kent College (Horsted and Oakwood Park)
Course Codes: 07H001/1A, 07H002/1A, 07P001/1A, 07P002/1A

ICT
At: North West Kent College (Dartford)
Course Codes: 2ASLEV-0708 and 2A2LEV-0708

ICT and Applied ICT are run at many schools in the Medway, Dartford and Gravesham areas.

Text Processing OCR Level 3
This course is offered by Medway Adult learning Service at their Gillingham centre.

Access to Computing
Meant for those who are highly motivated to learn but who lack the relevant qualifications.
At: Mid Kent College (Chatham Maritime)
Course Code: 62D503/1A
Duration: 3-4 days a week

Technician Award
At: North West Kent College (Dartford or Gravesend)
Course Code: 2TA-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: a good knowledge of computing is required plus satisfactory completion of Edexcel (BTEC) First Diploma for IT Practitioners (ICT Systems Support). There is a college assessment.

BTEC National Award/Certificate/Diploma for ICT Practitioners
At: Mid Kent College (City Way and Oakwood Park)
Course Codes: 60C107/1A and 60P107/1A
Duration: in total for 2 years, the Award is made up of 6 units, the Certificate of 12 units and the Diploma of 18 units
Entry Requirements: 5 GCSEs at grade C or above including Maths and English or equivalent qualifications

BTEC National Diploma for Computing Practitioners (General or ICT Systems Support or Software Development)
At: North West Kent College (Dartford or Gravesend)
Course Codes: 2CPND-0708, 2CPNDT-0708 or 2CPNDP-0708
Duration: 2 years
Entry Requirements: 4 GCSEs at grade C or above including Maths and English or equivalent

These courses are run at some schools in Medway, Dartford and Gravesham.

E-Skills Practitioners Online Business Technologies
At: North West Kent College (Dartford and Gravesend)
Course Code: 2ESKILL-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: at least 3 GCSEs at C or above with either Maths or English (grade D minimum) or equivalent. Experience of using applications software is needed.

BSc Computing
At: University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Code: G401 M BSc/Comp
Duration: 3 years full time or 4 years sandwich
Entry Requirements: 180 UCAS points at A level, ideally including a science or IT or maths based subject at A2 or equivalent, plus GCSE English, Maths and Science at grade C or above

BEng (Hons) and BSc (Hons) Computer Systems and Software Engineering
At: University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Codes: H6G6 M BEng/CSSE and GG4P M BSc/CSSE
Duration: 3 years full time and 4 years sandwich
Entry Requirements: 240 UCAS points (BEng) or 180 (BSc) or equivalent plus GCSE English, Maths and Science at grade C or above

Higher National Certificate in Information Technology
At: Mid Kent College at their Chatham Maritime centre
Course Codes: 60D332/1A or 60D703/1A
Duration: one day a week over 2 years or two evenings a week over 3 years

Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Information Technology
At: Mid Kent College (Chatham Maritime)
Course Codes: 60D331/1A and 60D702/1A
Duration: 3 years on one day a week or 4 years on two evenings per week
Entry Requirements: This degree requires appropriate employment.

HND/HNC in Computing
At: University of Greenwich at North West Kent College
UCAS Code: 004G E/D/L HND/Co
Duration: 2 years fulltime (HND) or 2 years part time (HNC)
Entry Requirements: 1 A level or equivalent plus 4 GCSEs at grade C or above including Maths and English

Higher National Diploma in Information Technology
HNC Conversion course
At: University of Kent in partnership with Mid Kent College at the Chatham Maritime centre
Course Code: 60D329/1A
Duration: one day and evening per week for a year

HND course
At: in partnership with the University of Kent
UCAS Code: 105G:M
Duration: 2 years
Entry Requirements: 80 A level points or equivalent

Foundation Degree in Computing
This course is offered by the University of Greenwich in partnership with North West Kent College.

Foundation Degree in Computer Systems and Networking
This course is offered by the University of Greenwich in partnership with North West Kent College.

City and Guilds (advanced) Level 2 Website Creation
This course is offered by Medway Adult Learning Service on one evening a week at their Gillingham centre. It is intended for those who have created pages with other packages but need more advanced tuition in Website creation.

Diploma for Interactive Media (Games)
At: North West Kent College (Dartford)
Course Code: 2IMG-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: 3-4 GCSEs at grade C or above (including English) or equivalent

Diploma for Interactive Media (Web)
At: North West Kent College (Dartford)
Course Code: 2IMW-0708
Duration: one year
Entry Requirements: 3-4 GCSEs at grade C or above (including English) or equivalent

BEng(Hons/BSc (Hons) Games and Entertainment Systems Software Engineering
At: University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Codes: GG46 M BEng/GESSE and G690 M BSc/GESSE
Duration: 3 years fulltime or 4 years sandwich
Entry Requirements: 240 UCAS points at A level or equivalent plus GCSE English, Maths and Science at grade C or above

BEng (Hons) Internet Technologies
At: the University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Code: H611 M BEng/IT
Duration: 3 years full time or 4 years sandwich
Entry Requirements: 240 UCAS points at A level or equivalent plus GCSE English, Maths and Science at grade C or above

BSc (Hons) Internet Engineering and Web Management BSc (Hons) Internet Engineering and Web Management
At: the University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Code: H630 M BSc/IEWM
Duration: 3 years full time and 4 years sandwich
Entry Requirements: 180 UCAS points at A level or equivalent plus GCSEs in English, Science and Maths at grade C or above

City and Guilds 4353-01 Two Dimensional Computer Aided Design (Using AutoCAD) Level 2
At: Mid Kent College (Horsted)
Course Code: 89H761/1A or 89H761/1B
Duration: 18 weeks and starts in either September or February

City and Guilds 4351-007 AutoCAD Level 2
At: Medway Adult Learning Service at their Gillingham centre
Duration: 15 weeks and starts in September or January

City and Guilds 4353-02 Two Dimensional Computer Aided Design (Using AutoCAD) Level 3
At: Mid Kent College (Horsted)
Course Code: 81H790/1A or 89H795/1A
Duration: 12 weeks for those with 4353-01 (level 2) otherwise 24 weeks

City and Guilds 4351-011 AutoCAD Level 3
This course is offered by Medway Adult Learning Service at their Gillingham centre and is a continuation of their level 2 course, it runs for 12 weeks on one evening a week.

City and Guilds 4353-03 Three Dimensional Computer Aided Design (Using AutoCAD) Level 3
At: Mid Kent College (Horsted)
Course Code: 89H760
Duration: one year on one evening a week

City and Guilds C++ Programming Level 2
This course is offered by Medway Adult Learning Service on one evening a week at their Gillingham centre.

B Eng (Hons) Communications Systems and Software Engineering
At: University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Code: H640 M BEng/CSSE
Duration: 3 years full time and 4 years sandwich
Entry Requirements: 240 UCAS points at A level including Maths at A2 or equivalent, plus GCSE English, Maths and Science at grade C or above

BEng (Hons) Computer Networking
BSc (Hons) Computer Networking
At: University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Code: G620 M BEng/CN and G421 M BSc/CN
Duration: 3 years full time and 4 years part time
Entry Requirements: 240 points at A level including Maths at A2 (for BEng) or 180 UCAS points (BSc) or equivalent plus GCSE English, Maths and Science at grade C or above

BEng (Hons) Electronics and Computer Systems
At: University of Greenwich at their Medway campus
UCAS Code: HG65 M BEng/ECS
Duration: 3 years full time, 4 years Sandwich and 6 years part time
Entry Requirements: 240 UCAS points at A level including Maths and a Physical Science at A2 or equivalent plus GCSE grade C in Maths, Science and English

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