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Digital literacy qualifications
For the workforce today, it is essential to have digital know-how in whatever role you undertake.
With the demand for digitally literate employees, all adults regardless of age or ability can now access fully funded qualifications. If you feel left behind, looking to update your IT skills, or are thinking of making a career change, taking a recognised BCS qualification is a great way to update your skills and give yourself a head start in the jobs market.
Why take one of our courses?
For those with little or no digital skills, learn how to use technology for work safely, gain new skills and build your confidence to be able to work effectively in a digital age of work.
Boost your chances in the job market by achieving a recognised qualification, that proves your knowledge and digital competence to current and prospective employers.
Through our progression route of learning you can aspire to a better career and secure your place in the changing digital workplace.
You are digitally safe in our hands.
Our range of courses include:
Brand-new qualifications for the jobs market:
- Essential Digital Skills Qualification for Work (EDSQ) - Entry Level 3 - funded for all adults
- Essential Digital Skills Qualification for Work (EDSQ) - Level 1 - funded for all adults
Entry level 3 and Level 1 Essential Digital Skills for Work (EDSQ) qualifications have full funding for learners in England aged 16 -19 and for adults, aged 19+ (employed or unemployed) with no or low digital skills.
The EDSQs are mapped to the Department of Education’s national standards for basic digital literacy and cover five fundamental skill areas to give every adult the digital know-how for using devices safely and with confidence within the workplace, digital is now essential for most jobs today, across every sector and at every level (construction, retail, hospitality, healthcare, warehouse and delivery to name a few).
Learn more about Essential Digital Skills Qualification for Work (EDSQ)
ICDL (previously ECDL) Level 1 & 2 Awards and Certificates
BCS training centres deliver a range of BCS qualifications to help get you digitally fit for the workplace, ICDL is recognised by employers and has been taken by over 15 million people from around the globe and a recognised benchmark of digital workplace skills. Gain a good foundation of widely used office-based skills knowledge using word, spreadsheets, presentation skills and databases.
BCS Level 3 Certificate in IT User Skills (ICDL Advanced) (ITQ) - Funded, approved as part of the ‘Lifetime Skills Guarantee'
The BCS Level 3 Certificate in IT (ICDL Advanced) is a recognised global qualification and became fully funded from April 2021 for all adults in work or not, as part of the ‘Lifetime Skills Guarantee’. The qualifications available from the National Skills Fund mean all adults now have the opportunity to gain a new qualification for free, designed to help them to gain in-demand skills and secure jobs for today and tomorrow.
These qualifications are for any adult who does not have an ‘A’ level or a full level 3 qualification. The approved qualifications have been carefully chosen to help adults improve their job prospects and the ICDL Advanced Certificate from BCS is ideally suited for adults who may be digitally competent and who are looking to become a department expert, or looking to improve their job prospects or progress onto higher education.
Not only do you gain a BCS Level 3 qualification in IT User Skills, the qualification carries 24 UCAS points towards higher education routes and on completion, you can apply for post-nominal letters (AMBCS) after your name from BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT through discounted BCS membership, giving you credibility and instant recognition on your level of competency and will open doors to jobs where a level 3 is a minimum requirement for a job application.
Learn more about the BCS Level 3 Certificate in IT User Skills (ICDL Advanced) (ITQ)
BCS Higher Education Qualifications (HEQ) (Levels 4, 5 & 6) - UK & International
Choose how you study your BCS higher education qualifications to fit in with your other work-life-family commitments. HEQ is an affordable, modular and flexible programme that allows you to study at a pace to suit you and is examined at degree level. On completion of all 3 levels you can apply for IT Professional Member, carrying the post nominals MBCS after your name, giving you a fast-track towards Chartered IT Professional, the pinnacle of IT Professionalism and industry recognition.
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