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2 unusual facts about BTEC


BTEC

Business and Technology Education Council, a British body which awarded vocational qualifications (which are themselves still known simply as BTECs)

Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, a training center at North Carolina State University


Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom

An example of a bogus college run as a scam is the Middlesbrough-based National Distance Learning College, which operated between 1999 and 2001 and offered distance learning courses in computing and business related subjects which it claimed were accredited by official qualification bodies such as BTEC and City & Guilds.

BTEC Extended Diploma

The BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma is popular amongst school leavers who wish to pursue Nursing, Midwifery or other health professions as the BTEC Health course gives more thorough preparation than A Levels would for the degree course.

Caritas Bianchi College of Careers

Caritas Bianchi College of Careers (Traditional Chinese: 明愛白英奇專業學校) is a community college in Hong Kong that offers top-up Bachelor’s Degree in collaboration with universities, Associate Degree, Higher Diploma, Professional Diploma, BTEC Higher National Diploma and BTEC National Certificate in various professional fields.

Chris Nurse

From here Nurse progressed onto Kingstonian Football Academy, balancing full-time training with academic studies going onto complete a BTEC National Diploma in Sports Studies and evidently completed a BSc(Hons) Degree in Applied Sports Therapy from 2005 to 2008 at University College Birmingham.

Derek Brockway

He later went to Coleg Morgannwg in Pontypridd, and Reading College of Technology where he received a BTEC Higher National Certificate in Mathematics, Statistics and Physics in 1993.

Fulham F.C. Academy

As part of their training, young players are guided with the aim to gain a BTEC and NVQ qualification.

Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center

The NCBioImpact partnership now includes BTEC, BRITE (Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise) at North Carolina Central University, North Carolina BioNetwork of the North Carolina Community College System, NCBIO (North Carolina Biosciences Organization), the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, and the Golden LEAF Foundation.

In 2003, North Carolina's Golden LEAF Foundation provided almost $39 million to build BTEC, as part of a larger grant to establish a statewide public-private partnership now called NCBioImpact.

HM Prison New Hall

This prison provides full and part-time education courses for prisoners in areas such as business administration, food hygiene, literacy, numeracy and information technology, NVQ Hairdressing, BTEC and Art.

Laksamana College of Business

During 2008 the college became an authorised IC3 centre and was entrusted by Edexcel BTEC to deliver IT programs from 2010 onwards.

Melissa Walton

Walton studied at Bablake School in Coundon, Coventry, then took a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at Stratford-upon-Avon College, which she passed with three distinctions.

Nadine Lewington

She then trained at Braintree College where she gained a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts, and then Middlesex University's Drama Studio in London, graduating in 2003 with a BA Hons.

Senior College Dun Laoghaire

SCD continues to offer a wide range of professional programmes with professional bodies such as Accounting Technicians Ireland, CompTIA, ITEC and BTEC to name but a few.

Syed Ahmed

He then attended the Hammersmith College, where he achieved a BTEC in Business and Finance.

Walsall College

Courses offered by the college include GCSEs, NVQs, BTECs, Diplomas, Apprenticeships and Access courses.


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