Course summary
Ignite Your Engineering Career with Newham College’s HNC and HND Programme for the UK! Your gateway to becoming a versatile and highly skilled professional, perfectly aligned with the evolving demands of the UK engineering sector. Welcome to your pathway to success in the heart of the UK’s engineering sector at Newham College. Our Higher Nationals in Engineering open doors to becoming skilled professionals, highly sought-after in the dynamic UK engineering field. Join us to shape your success in engineering.
- Professional Excellence: Crafted for UK-based professionals, our program develops individuals who seamlessly adapt to the dynamic world of engineering, boosting your career prospects.
- Digital & Software Insights: Grasp the major impact of new digital and software technologies on the UK engineering landscape, staying at the forefront of industry advancements.
- Your UK Engineering Future: Upon completion you’ll possess a profound understanding of principles in your UK-focused expertise.
- Skills Mastery: Acquire essential skills, knowledge, and understanding for top-tier performance in the UK engineering and manufacturing environment, setting the foundation for a successful career.
- Versatility & Leadership: Develop an inquiring mind and gain the confidence to lead, manage, respond to change, and tackle complex engineering situations within the UK industry.
- Career-Focused: Strike a perfect balance between employability skills and essential knowledge, whether you aspire to be an entrepreneur, employee, or academic achiever in the UK.
- Provide a thorough grounding in engineering principles at Level 4, which leads the student to the progression pathway at Level 5 relating to individual professions within the engineering sector.
- Equip individuals with the essential qualities of an engineer, including integrity, regard for cost and sustainability, as they apply to a range of roles and responsibilities within the sector.
- Enable progression to a higher-level study such as a university degree by supporting the development of academic study skills and the selection of appropriate units for study at Level 5.
- Enable progression to further professional qualifications in specific engineering disciplines by mapping the units studied to the requirements of the Professional Bodies applicable to that discipline
- Written assignments including essays, projects, and reports
- Demonstrating practical skills
- Completion of portfolio of evidence including observation of practical skills
- Formal examinations/assessments and online assessments as required
- Engineering Design
- Engineering Maths
- Managing a Professional Engineering Project (Pearson-set)
- Mechatronics
- Mechanical Principles
- Production Engineering for Manufacture
- Quality and Process Improvement
- Digital Principles
- Professional Engineering Management (Pearson-set Unit)
- Further Mathematics
- Commercial Programming Software
- Distributed Control Systems
- Further Electrical Machines and Drives
- Embedded Systems
- Analogue Electronic Systems
- Further Control Systems Engineering
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Modules
Engineering Design; Engineering Maths; Managing a Professional Engineering Project (Pearson-set) as Core Mandatory Units. Mechatronics; Mechanical Principles; Production Engineering for Manufacture; Quality and Process Improvement; Digital Principles as Specialist Mandatory Units
Assessment method
Written assignments including essays, projects, and reports; Demonstrating practical skills; Completion of portfolio of evidence including observation of practical skills; Formal examinations/assessments and online assessments as required
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
International applicants
We are currently unable to accept applications from international applicants.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MPP
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MP
Other related Level 3 qualifications will be accepted. International equivalents to the above qualifications will be accepted.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Additional entry requirements
Interview
All applicants will be required to attend an informal interview which may include completing an assessment based on your prior qualifications.
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 5.5 | Including 5.5 for reading and writing. |
PTE Academic | 51 |
For BTEC Higher National programmes that are taught and assessed in English, all students must demonstrate capability in English at the required standard. Non-native English speakers and those students who have not had their final two years of schooling in English will need to demonstrate one of the following upon entry: • Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) B2 • IELTS 5.5 (including 5.5 for reading and writing) • PTE Academic 51 or equivalent (e.g. centre-devised test).
English Language Requirements
Student Outcomes
There is no data available for this course. For further information visit the Discover Uni website.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £5850 | Year 1 |
England | £5850 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £5850 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £5850 | Year 1 |
Wales | £5850 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £5850 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £5850 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
Newham College of Further Education
East Ham Campus
High Street South
Newham
E6 6ER
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