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Information Technology is an ever-changing fast paced practical subject equipping you with the skills to take on new and unknown problems and design answers to new challenges due to the speed at which the industry is evolving.

Students will gain knowledge and skills based on real world scenarios set by the exam board for the two coursework modules e.g., developing their own interactive user guide.

Students will have the ability to have a hands-on course alongside traditional GCSEs giving them a taste of what the sector is like as well as the essential skills and confidence to succeed in their next steps with the new BTEC Tech Award in Digital Information Technology. Students can produce practical responses to a digital brief and gain valuable skills for a modern future in a digital industry.

You can gain valuable thinking and logistical skills that are extremely attractive in the modern workplace as well as develop advanced skills in using Microsoft office suite of programs with more specialist IT related software. These together underpin our modern society and workplace that evolves around data and staying safe, thinking about Cyber Security and how to keep data safe, on the move.