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Course Overview

By the end of the course, you’ll have gained the technical, organisational, creative, and professional skills needed to work successfully in the technical events industry.

Key Features

  • This course will equip you with a broad set of technical and practical skills.
  • Employability is a key element of the course with the curriculum shaped around live professional experience project briefs.
  • Study in a real-world commercial live event venue and learn industry-relevant practical skills and techniques.
  • Benefit from hearing from industry speakers working in the live events sector, helping you contextualize your learning.
  • Undertake an 'Industry' based module each year. This is designed to introduce you to the pressures and complexities of working in the live events sector through live client projects and self-directed project management assignments.
  • Learn from course staff with industry experience.
  • Benefit from access to industry-standard equipment.
  • Work on a variety of live events.

What you'll study?

This cutting-edge course will give you the opportunity to study in a real-world live event venue, training with professionals, and working with industry-standard hardware and software.

This industry-focused course will give you the chance to learn about a broad range of disciplines in the live and technical events sector, including:

  • Lighting and stage design
  • Live sound reinforcement
  • Sound theory and acoustics
  • Electrical principles
  • Equipment maintenance and repair
  • Visual Effects (VFX)
  • Live event planning

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

  • A-levels - DDE; or
  • BTEC Extended Diploma - MPP; or
  • 64 UCAS Tariff points from three A-levels or equivalent qualifications; and
  • GCSEs - two at grade C, including English and Maths.

English Language Requirements:

Grade equivalent to IELTS 6.0

Pearson Test of English (Academic):

  • 54 (with no less than 51 in any element)

C2 Proficiency (formerly known as Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE):

  • Scores of 180 and above

C1 Advanced (formerly known as Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE):

  • Scores of 169 and above

Oxford Test of English (OTE):

  • 120 overall with at least 111 in each component

TOEFL iBT (including ‘Special Home Edition'):

  • Overall score of 62 with at least 10 Reading, 9 Listening, 17 Speaking, 19 Writing

LanguageCert* SELT B2 or LanguageCert International ESOL B2 Communicator:

  • 156 overall (scores for all 4 components added together) with at least 33 in each component

IGCSE and GCSE

The grades given for GCSE and IGCSE are considered equivalent to IELTS 6.5.

GCSE English

  • Grade C

IGCSE English as a first or second language

We do not accept English Literature.

Requirements for international students requiring a student visa (Tier 4):

  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a First Language (Syllabus 0500): Grade Coverall required, with at least grade 1 or 2 in Listening and Speaking when these components are reported separately.
  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a First Language (Syllabus 0522): Grade C overall
  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a Second Language (Syllabus 0511): Grade B overall
  • IGCSE English: Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) English as a Second Language (Syllabus 0510): Grade B overall with at least grade 1 or 2 in Speaking when this component is reported separately.

Requirements for students who DO NOT require a student visa (Tier 4):

  • Cambridge International Examinations (CIE)/AQA IGCSE English Language (First Language) – C
  • CIE IGCSE English Language (Second Language) – B
  • Edexcel IGCSE English Language A or B syllabus – C
  • Edexcel IGCSE English as a Second Language - B

Fees

Full-Time Course Fee

£15200


This information was accurate on : 07/04/2021
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