Deadline looms for Eastwood Parks new degree course
Engineers, managers and supervisors keen to hone their technical skills are invited to apply for a new foundation degree in medical technologies, developed by Eastwood Park.
The course looks at the following three areas of medical technology: medical equipment, medical gas technology and medical device decontamination and aims to provides students with a flexible route to learning methods, whilst still working full time.
The course has been developed in partnership with Kingston University and in association with the Sector Skills Councils of Skills for Health and SEMTA, the Department of Health, IHEEM and the IDSc. The first 15 students were admitted in October for the two-year work-based programme. The deadline for the forthcoming course is the end of March.
John Thatcher, director of training and ceo of Eastwood Park, said: “The new Foundation Degree qualifications are ideal for staff that don’t want to give up their job to study full-time and are a great way of achieving personal educational aims using a more vocational route. It is likely that elements of the programme will be studied in the workplace, at home and at Eastwood Park. ”
All Foundation Degrees are university validated and provide a route to progression to the third year of one or more honours degrees at the validating university.
The Foundation Degree goes beyond the Level 3 NVQs in these technology areas and will allow access to the final year of a number of Kingston Universities Science, Management and Engineering Honours Degrees. In addition the programme will relate to the Voluntary Register of Clinical Technologists and membership of relevant professional bodies.