Advanced Diploma Courses
- Travel & Tourism
- Business with Marketing
- Business with Accounting
- Computing: Software Development
- Computer Science
- Business with Human Resources Management
- Mechanical Engineering
- Advanced Diploma in Electronics
- Advanced Diploma in Architectural Technology
- Advanced Diploma in Art & Design
- Advanced Diploma in Engineering Systems
Embark on a Journey to Your Future: Your Gateway to the World of Travel & Tourism Excellence!
Advanced Diploma in Travel and Tourism is designed to serve employers’ needs in a broad spectrum of organisations in the domestic, inbound tourism and outbound travel industry, for example, tour operations, visitor servicing, tourism development, marketing, customer service, retail and business travel agents, airlines airports and cruise operations.
mpowering Your Future: Unleash Your Marketing Genius with Our Advanced Business Diploma.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Business with Marketing is designed for students who wish to pursue a career in Marketing Management or a range of general business/management positions. This programme is designed to equip students with an understanding of marketing issues and practices within a changing business environment.
Establish a career in international business, management, and administration, with a significant emphasis on financial and management accounting.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Business with Accounting (SCQF level 8), framed within an international context, cultivates skills and knowledge in key areas of global business, management, and administration. The program places substantial focus on financial and management accounting, integrating the use of information and communication technology.
Receive specialized and professional training in the design, implementation, support, assessment, and management of IT systems across a wide spectrum of industries.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Computing: Software Development equips students with a variety of technical skills and knowledge in software development, specifically in programming and systems development. The program offers academic, technical, and professional training that imparts the requisite skills for designing, implementing, supporting, evaluating, or managing IT systems in an array of industries. It also encourages students to understand professional IT issues, including legal and ethical considerations. Students will not only gain competencies in established areas of software development such as database management and systems development, but also acquire skills in emerging technologies. A key feature of this course is the development of programming and design skills, utilizing cutting-edge technologies like mobile applications.
Empower Your Future: Unleash the Digital Innovator Within You!
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Computer Science is designed to equip candidates with the knowledge, understanding and skills required for success in current and future employment or for progression to further academic and/or professional qualifications.
Empowering Your Future with Strategic HR Mastery - Your Pathway to Business Leadership Begins Here!
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Business with HRM is designed for students who wish to pursue a career in Human Resource Management or a range of general business/management positions. This course is designed to equip students with an understanding of human resource issues and practices within a changing business environment.
Provides you with a grounding in engineering principles, statics and strength of materials, engineering drawing, engineering skills, plant systems, and applied industrial plant maintenance.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialization in Industrial Automation and Robotics, imparts to students a broad spectrum of knowledge and skills essential for mechanical engineering. This is applicable to various fields including mechanical, manufacturing, marine, process, oil, gas, Automation, Industrial Robotics, and alternative energy industries.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Electronics Engineering with focus on fulfilling the requirements of Industry 4.0 provides students with a wide range of knowledge and skills required for Electronics engineering relevant to aerospace, power electronics, automotive, automation, data communication, oil & gas, logistics, IT, satellite communication and many more.
The objective of the program is to provide a broad understanding of Electronics Engineering technologies, with focus on Industry 4.0 enabling students to progress towards employment opportunities. In addition, the students will also be trained on Siemens SMSCP certification, which is a highly acclaimed certification from Siemens, Germany. The course not only enhances the technical knowledge it also develops organisational skills including project planning, maintenance strategies, methods of design and analysis, leadership and interpersonal skills.
Architectural Technology is a creative, innovative design discipline rooted in science and engineering. At its core, is the anatomy and physiology of a building or structure, its relation to context, how it is assembled and how it performs through form, function, and fabric. Architectural Technology achieves efficient and effective construction and robust sustainable design solutions that perform and endure over time.
The learners on successful completion of the course can register to The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists which is the qualifying body for Architectural Technology as a Professionally Qualified Architectural Technicians, TCIAT (Technician member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists), or as a MCIAT (Member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technicians). The Professionally Qualified Architectural Technicians, TCIAT (Technician member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists) specialise in the application of technology in architecture and are an integral supporting part of the design team specialising in the research of products, processes, legislation, and technology as well as detailing, designs, and drawings.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Arts and Design is a diverse course that is focused on creative thinking and imagination, thereby progressing learners towards a dynamic career.
The objective of this programme is to provide a firm base of art and design skills, pertinent to either employment as a practicing artist or designer. This program has been designed to provide learners with a vibrant and challenging experience, which will add to their existing skills and strengths, aiding to develop their creative vision. The SQA Advanced Certificate units provide learners with a coherent foundation of key knowledge and skills that will support their subject-specific content. The modules are tailored curricula that meet the needs of the content that are required for later specialisation in preparation for higher studies in Design or Creative Media.
The SQA advanced diploma in Engineering Systems with focus on sustainable and renewable energy provides students with a wide range of knowledge and skills required for various engineering fields like aerospace, power electronics, automotive, electrical energy generation, green energy, renewable energy and many more.
The high quality curriculum with state of the art laboratories is integrated with project and internship based learning and this attempt has resulted in high levels of problem solving skills in students. The passionate involvement of highly experienced faculty has aided students to explore newer domains of learning. The objective of this qualification is to allow learners a degree of specialization within one or more of the following areas: electronics, electrical engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, fabrication, welding, petroleum, etc. In addition, the students will also be trained on Siemens SMSCP certification, which is a highly acclaimed certification from Siemens, Germany. The course not only enhances the technical knowledge it also develops organizational skills including project planning, maintenance strategies, methods of design and analysis, leadership and interpersonal skills.
Advanced Certificate Courses
- Advanced Certificate in Business
- Advanced Certificate in Computing
- Advanced Certificate in Architectural Technology
- Advanced Certificate in Art and Design
Empower Your Future: Unleash the Power of Technology with Our Advanced Certificate in Computing!
This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary for success in current and future employment or for the progression to further academic and / or professional qualifications.
Architectural Technology is a creative, innovative design discipline rooted in science and engineering. At its core, is the anatomy and physiology of a building or structure, its relation to context, how it is assembled and how it performs through form, function, and fabric. Architectural Technology achieves efficient and effective construction and robust sustainable design solutions that perform and endure over time.
The learners on successful completion of the course can register to The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists which is the qualifying body for Architectural Technology as a Professionally Qualified Architectural Technicians, TCIAT (Technician member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists), or as a MCIAT (Member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technicians).
The SQA Advanced Certificate in Arts and Design is a diverse course that is focused on creative thinking and imagination, thereby progressing learners towards a dynamic career.
The objective of this programme is to provide a firm base of art and design skills, pertinent to either employment as a practicing artist or designer. This program has been designed to provide learners with a vibrant and challenging experience, which will add to their existing skills and strengths, aiding to develop their creative vision. The SQA Advanced Certificate units provide learners with a coherent foundation of key knowledge and skills that will support their subject-specific content. The modules are tailored curricula that meet the needs of the content that are required for later specialization in preparation for higher studies in Design or Creative Media.
Professional Certification Courses
- Big Data Developer certification by IBM
- CCNA Routing and Switching
- Industrial Automation PDA
- NPA Data Science
- NPA Cyber Security
- Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program (SMSCP)
Department of Computing Science is pleased to be able to offer IBM professional training courses which are highly in demand.
IBM in its ever-continuing effort to support the technical institutions has partnered with University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE to deliver full comprehensive training. The changed face of job market has made it necessary for young professionals to obtain professional training in their field of interest. In today's super competitive employment arena, professional qualifications can help our students to stand out from the competition and give them an edge when applying for the job.
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching is a certification program for entry-level network engineers that helps maximize your investment in foundational networking knowledge and increase the value of your employer's network.
CCNA Routing and Switching is for Network Specialists, Network Administrators, and Network Support Engineers with 1-3 years of experience. The CCNA Routing and Switching validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size routed and switched networks.
With rapid development in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology, automation is at a tipping point. Today, robots can perform a variety of functions without considerable human intervention.
Automated technologies are not only executing iterative tasks, but also expand workforce capabilities significantly. Multiple industries, ranging from manufacturing, logistics, infrastructure, hospitality to banking, are adopting automation to drive productivity, safety, profitability, and quality.
Data science is one of a number of emerging technologies, which include artificial intelligence and cloud computing, that are becoming increasingly important in modern societies.
‘Big Data analytics’ was one of four technologies (along with cyber security, mobile computing and cloud computing) identified by The Tech Partnership as an area of future skills shortage (Employer Insights, 2017). The skills shortage in data science has been widely reported.
There is a current skills shortage in the field of Cyber Security to defend against cyber-attacks. It is believed that education is key to addressing the skills gap. The NPA Cyber Security awards have stemmed from the need to address the growing rise in easily preventable cybercrime.
Certification in Cyber Security will attract learners for a number of reasons. The demand for Cyber Security is high among employers. The National Progression Awards in Cyber Security at SCQF levels 4, 5 and 6 represent an additional, essential, vocational qualification at each level providing a clear progressive context and structure for the development of key contemporary knowledge and skills. They are primarily designed as ‘feeder’ qualifications to more advanced awards. By capturing the interests and imaginations of young people at a formative stage in their lives (aged 15–18), it is hoped that some will progress to further studies in this field. However, the awards will deliver foundation knowledge and skills in cyber security that would give learners a head start if/when they progress to more advanced qualifications.
The Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program (SMSCP) combines the German dual education system with Siemens’ in-house know-how.
It prepares students to work their way into a new system, and by means of the troubleshooting strategies which they learn, they are able to transfer their knowledge and expertise easily to another system. Students with an SMSCP certification are employees who are flexible, autonomous, and professional in his or her dealings with such complex systems.