IT Qualifications

Where can I study for an IT qualification?

There is an IT Diploma. There are approximately 141,000 newly qualified professionals required in the UK every year.

The following qualifications in IT are available:

IT Diploma - available for 14-19 year olds and designed in collaboration with Vodafone, BT, Cisco, EDS, IBM, John Lewis Partnership, Microsoft, Logical, Oracle Academy and CA. See a video http://www.e-skills.com/diploma.

The British Computer Society has information on IT qualifications. See www.bcs.org
Some IT courses are available via distance learning such as from The International Correspondence Schools:

Introduction to Computer Programming. See http://www.icslearn.co.uk/it-technical-courses/programming-game-design/computer-programming-introduction/
Topics include:

• Computer hardware
• Principles of Programming
• Elements of Computer Programming
• Operating Systems
• Data Processing and Organisation
• HTML and JavaScript
• Visual Basic

This course requires around 100 hours of study. The cost of the course is currently £341.10

Microsoft has it's own certification and details can be found at http://learning.microsoft.com/manager/catalog.aspx

Can you recommend any others?