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Level 4
This qualification is equivalent to the first year of a degree and on completion you may choose to progress
to the second year of a degree course. To achieve a level 4 qualification you must be able to:
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Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems.
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Communicate the results of your study/work accurately and reliably, and with structured and coherent
arguments.
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Undertake further training and develop new skills.
On completion you will have qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring some
personal responsibility. You will also have the ability to progress to further appropriate training.
Level 5
Level 5 qualifications prepare you for careers in specific occupational areas. To achieve this qualification
you must be able to:
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Use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and
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Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and
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Undertake further training, develop existing skills and acquire new competences that will enable you to
propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis.
non-specialist audiences and deploy techniques of the discipline effectively.
assume significant responsibility within organisations.
On completion you will have qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the
exercise of personal responsibility and decision-making. You will also have the ability to progress to further
appropriate training.
Level 6
To achieve this level of qualification you must be able to:
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Apply the methods and techniques that you have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply
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Initiate and carry out projects.
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Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data to make judgements, and to
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Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist
your knowledge and understanding.
frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution or identity a range of solutions to a problem.
audiences.
Once you have gained a level 6 qualification you will have the skills required for employment covering
personal responsibility and decision making in complex and unpredictable contexts. You will also have the
ability to progress to further appropriate training.
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