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Our Esports courses are an exciting opportunity, giving you a pathway into one of the UK’s fastest-growing technology sectors.
From gaming to coaching, event management to marketing, video production to nutrition, this course has been developed with experts. With cutting-edge content, they will prime you to excel across a range of careers or further study and are geared for you to join the next generation of professionals in this billion-pound industry.
Our exclusive partnership with Manchester City In The Community allows us to have access to a world leading brand and provide opportunities that no other college could offer. Working closely with Manchester City Esports team, the students will have access to professionals within the industry in addition to once-in-a-lifetime experiences, such as work experience in South Korea.
Level 2 Certificate in Esports (Full Time / 1 Year)
The content of this qualification has been developed in consultation with key stakeholders. This ensures that the content is appropriate and consistent with current industry practice to enable learners to enter employment or progress onto further study. This is a career-focused qualification with industry endorsement, enabling learners to develop underpinning knowledge and technical and transferable skills that gain experience in a variety of different sections of the Esports industry.
Learners taking this qualification will study four mandatory units:
The mandatory content allows learners to develop their technical skills across the different unit areas, supported by underpinning knowledge. All assessment relates to the Esports industry. Communication skills are developed throughout the units, and students can also enhance their broader skills in ICT. Literacy and numeracy skills are also developed throughout.
Level 3 Extended Diploma in Esports (Full Time / 2 Years)
The Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Esports is 1080 guided learning hours (GLH) and is a qualification for post-16 learners. It is equivalent to three A Levels and is designed to be taken as a two-year, full-time study programme. Due to more optional units, the Level 3 qualification allows learners to access employment in a broader range of Esports areas. It also offers learners the opportunity to progress to further study and higher education.
This is a career-focused qualification with industry endorsement that enables learners to gain underpinning knowledge, develop technical and transferable skills, and experience a variety of different sections of the Esports industry. Learners taking this qualification will study five mandatory units:
The mandatory content allows learners to develop their technical skills across the different unit areas, supported by underpinning knowledge, and provides the opportunity for learners to relate these to the Esports industry. Learners will also be able to choose 10 optional units, up to a total of 600 GLH. The optional units are intended to give breadth of choice for learners to gain depth in a range of units across the Esports areas of employment, such as sport, media, IT and business enterprise, in addition to those learned in the mandatory units.
Assessments across both Level 2 and Level 3 aim to replicate real-world challenges within the Esports industry to provide students with a professional experience.
Level 2 Esports
Assessment is designed to fit the purpose and objective of the qualification. It includes a range of assessment types and styles suited to skills and occupationally-based qualifications at this level. Assessment takes the form of practical, written and presentation-based assignments, as well as a synoptic internal assessment. The synoptic assessment for the Certificate qualification is based on Unit 4: Plan for an Esports Event, and takes the form of a vocational activity in which learners present a plan for an Esports event. In completing this synoptic unit, learners will study how to develop a plan for an Esports event, pitch the plan to an audience and use feedback to revise their plan.
Level 3 Extended Diploma in Esports
For these qualifications, there are two main forms of assessment that you need to be aware of: internal and synoptic.
Internal Assessment: Learners are assessed using a variety of styles to help them develop a broad range of transferable skills. Learners could be given opportunities to:
Synoptic Assessment: This requires learners to demonstrate that they can identify and use effectively, in an integrated way, an appropriate selection of skills, techniques, concepts, theories and knowledge from across the whole sector as relevant to a key task. Synoptic assessment takes place after the teaching and learning of other mandatory units in order for learners to be able to draw from the full range of content. The synoptic assessment gives learners an opportunity to independently select and apply learning from across their programme in the completion of a vocational task.
Level 2 Esports
Learners taking this qualification may wish to progress to further study such as Pearson BTEC Level 3 Nationals in Esports, Information Technology, Creative Media, Sport, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship or Business.
The qualification is endorsed by The British Esports Association as being suitable for learners wanting to work in this industry. This means that it will be recognised by employers in a range of roles.
Successful completion of this qualification could also lead to being fully prepared to progress to an apprenticeship in the related sector, such as in events, digital marketing or creative media.
Level 3 Extended Diploma in Esports
The primary focus of the Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Esports is for learners to progress into employment across a range of roles within Esports. Jobs that are available in these areas include:
And many more!
The qualification attracts UCAS Tariff points and is recognised by higher education providers as contributing to entry requirements for many related courses. When taken in a two-year, full-time study programme, learners can progress to higher education degree programmes, such as a BA (Hons) Events Management, BA (Hons) Media or a BA (Hons) Esports, as well as accessing other higher education programmes. Learners should check entry requirements for specific degree programmes with providers.
Entry Level Courses:
Skills for Life & Work/Preparing for Adulthood
No formal qualifications are required for this course.
These courses are specifically designed for learners with a Special Educational Need (SEND).
Pre Level 1
No formal qualifications are required for this course.
Full Time ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
No formal qualifications are required for this course.
Full Time GCSE Re-sit Study Course Science
GCSE Grade 3 (C) in Maths or English. Below GCSE Grade 3 (C) in BIO,CHM,PHY subjects or not sat GCSE Sciences in the past.
Full Time GCSE Re-Sit Maths and English
GCSE Grade 2 or 3 in Maths and English.
Full Time Level 1 Course
2 GCSE's at grade 2 unless you want to study the courses listed below:
Electrical & Plumbing: Min GCSE grade 3 in maths or Functional Skills 1 in maths
Motor Vehicle: Min GCSE grade 2 in maths
Full Time Level 2 Course
4 GCSE grade 3 including English or maths or a level 1 in Functional Skills English or Maths unless you want to study the courses below:
Motor Vehicle : GCSE grade 3 in maths or Functional Skills Level 1 in maths & Level 1 in Motor Vehicle.
Min GCSE grade 4 or Functional Skills Level 2 in Maths and English Required for:
Accounting, Plumbing & Electrical
Full time Level 3 Course
4 GCSEs at Grade 4-9 including English AND Maths (Functional Skills Level 2 English AND Maths will be accepted).
NOTE: If you want to study Applied Science you must have 4 and above in GCSE Biology, Chemistry & Physics.
Vocational Level 2 in the subject area you wish to study plus Grade 4-9 GCSE English or Maths (Functional Skills Level 2 English or Maths will be accepted).
*A Vocational Level 2 is required for the following courses:
Accounting
All Construction Subjects
Hair & Beauty Subjects
Applied Science
T Level Foundation (Level 2)
4 GCSE Grade 3 including English and Math's (or Functional Skills Level 1 in English and Math's)
T Levels
5 GCSEs at Grade 4-9 including English and Maths (Functional Skills Level 2 in English and Maths will be accepted).
*Health & Healthcare Science T Level requires GCSE Grade 4 in BIO, CHEM, PHY OR if double all 4's required.
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