Course Catalogue

The general aims of the programme are:
• To provide students with the knowledge, skills, techniques and behaviours needed to support a career as a ‘sustainability’ professional in employment related to the transport industry.
• To provide a structured ladder of progression to well-rounded and valuable qualifications at levels 4 and 5, tailored to the needs of local and regional employers.
• To provide students with the maximum practicable flexibility of study (in terms of study mode, timescales and recognition of prior learning) thus enabling them to match their study commitments to personal needs and aspirations.
Alternative Exit/ Interim Award Learning Outcomes - Higher National Certificate in Sustainable Technologies.
A student who is eligible for this award will be able to:
Apply a systematic approach to the acquisition of knowledge, underpinning concepts and principles and deploy a range of subject specific, cognitive and transferable skills.
Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to solving well defined problems and communicate outcomes in a structured and clear manner.
Identify and discuss the relationship between personal, and any workplace, experience and findings from books and journals and other data drawn from the field of study.

The methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated are as follows:
Key themes of the teaching and learning strategy on this programme are:
• Varied assessment and feedback to enhance the experience of the student.
• The availability of flexible teaching and learning modes, using face to face, on-line and some blended learning.
• Student support through the use of structured and targeted tutorials.
• The development and application of theory into practice.
• The use of inclusive learning methods.
• Development of students’ skills in making balanced fitness-for-purpose decisions.
Teaching sessions will allow for the introduction of new skills, techniques, concepts and theories to enable students to develop their own practice further. Learning and teaching opportunities will be designed to allow for the transfer of learning between the different modules and the integration of theory with practice.
Students will learn to produce employment-relevant outcomes, designs, presentations, reports and projects.
Students will be expected to think for themselves as independent learners, encouraged by using flexible teaching methods and varied methods of assessment.
Each stream has a mandatory synoptic task at each level. At level 4 this is an individual project. At level 5 students are introduced to the wider academic community through an investigative research project, which will contain a significant element of group work.
There is considerable diversity of delivery needs among the likely candidates for this programme. These include:
• Traditional full-time learners, mainly students progressing internally from level 3 awards.
• Day-release part-time learners, mainly those on day release from partner employers.
• Evening class students, principally either those in relevant employment whose employers will not release them during the day or those in other employment wishing to change careers.
• Those unable to study on a week-by-week basis but who could attend in week-long blocks.
• Those who wish to offset RPEL of their previous studies or experience against module learning outcomes.
This programme is intended to meet all of these needs. While the mode and timing of delivery may vary, all students will be assessed against the same learning outcomes and will have the same skills on exit.

An important element of the programme is practical experiential learning which is achieved and demonstrated through an engagement within college and a work based placement. Students are normally employed within a relevant industry and will fulfil the learning outcomes through their work based role.
Work-based learning is not restricted to work experience or placement learning. It also includes relevant and appropriate assessed theoretical learning which links academic study with work situations and issues.