Course summary

Activate Learning is proud to be working in collaborative partnership with Milton Keynes College to deliver the new South Central Institute of Technology, working with leading brands such as Microsoft, KPMG, McAfee, Cranfield University, and Evidence Talks. Institutes of Technology have been designed to create higher level technical qualifications, in partnership with employers to increase productivity and raise the standards of university-level technical education. Activate Learning will be hosting two, state-of-the-art hubs at our Blackbird Leys Technology Campus in Oxford and at our Reading College campus. The Level 5 units give students the opportunity to specialise in a digital-technology-related occupational areas and prepares students to move on to specific areas of digital technologies at Level 6 or enter employment. The programme is designed to be studied full-time over one academic year, three days a week as a top-up from the HNC. The HND in Digital Technologies is a qualification of a minimum of 120 credits, including; • Business Intelligence • Internet of Things • Emerging Technologies • Digital Sustainability • Digital Technology as a Catalyst for Change • Pitching & Negotiation skills Students will then elect two further units; • Data Structures & Algorithms • Advanced Programming • Applied Security in the Cloud • Work Based Learning Students will have a sound understanding of the principles in their area of specialist study and will know how to apply those principles widely in the area of digital technologies. Students will be able to develop and apply their own ideas to their studies, to deal with uncertainty and complexity, explore solutions, demonstrate critical evaluation and use both theory and practice in a wide range of digital technology situations.