The Business Exchange Bath & Somerset Issue 5: Autumn 2017 | Page 26

FURTHER YOUR CAREER WITH PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AT BATH COLLEGE Studying a part-time professional qualification at Bath College can help you to upskill and improve your future career prospects. Take a look at our part-time prospectus if you’d like to work towards a new position in your current profession or want to make a career change. We’re running a number of new courses, including a 30-week course leading to a Health and Social Care Higher National Certificate (HNC). We have a wide range of courses available, leading to recognised professional qualifications in subjects such as: Animal Care Teaching Computing Floristry Our business courses will help you to get a head-start in accounting, marketing, human resources, management and law This new course will prepare you for supervisory or junior management level roles within the health and social care sector. We’re also offering qualifications in counselling, emergency first aid at work and child care. With a 16-week course, you can gain a Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) qualification offering a unique route into the legal profession. You can also work your way up from a Level 2 AAT certificate in bookkeeping to a Level 4 professional diploma in accounting. For more information: www.bathcollege.ac.uk [email protected] 01225 312191 ext. 720 Students studying for a professional qualification in beauty will be based at The Academy, a fantastic facility open to the public for hairdressing and complementary therapy appointments. You can study for a Level 2 diploma in barbering, cosmetic make up and manicure or a Level 3 diploma in Swedish body massage, Thai massage and reflexology. If you’d like to work in the building industry, take a look at our site carpentry, electrical installation, plumbing and welding qualifications. Or to work towards a career designing, building or managing construction, take a look at our Level 3 CIBE construction diploma. We offer a number of distance learning courses, from customer service and retail operations to working with people with mental health needs. If you’re planning to go to university, our Access to Higher Education Diploma will give you the entry criteria and study skills for a degree level programme. Students choose from five diplomas: education, health and social care, humanities, science and social science, and go on to a range of university programmes studying to become paramedics, midwives and biomedical science.