Short-term skills solutions for long term career aspirations

HN FLEX

Pearson’s HN Flex offering allows you to easily adopt and deliver bite sized skills units from Higher National qualifications at levels 4 and 5, and offer them as short programmes. Access wider markets by providing the ability to offer flexible, short term solutions to students, while still allowing for long term skills stacking. The opportunity to study and achieve individual Higher National (HN) units is especially relevant for employed students who are seeking Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as well as employment progression opportunities.

Options for Students

HN Flex offers students the chance to study stackable units within a single RQF BTEC Higher National qualification from our full range of over 40 subjects, with the progression opportunity of a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or Higher National Diploma (HND), achieving a Certificate of Unit Credit (CoUC) upon completion; or • A combination of up to 4 units from different RQF BTEC Higher National subjects offered as standalone short programmes. (The units cannot be combined to create a HNC/HND, students do have the opportunity to progress to a full HNC/HND, with a focus on a single subject discipline, having banked the units studied), or • Individual units of CPD as and when required; or • Completing only units required for professional body/vendor accreditation

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Students

• The flexibility to gain skills in a more efficient and bite-size way,

without having to enrol in a full qualification

• Ability to “stack” skills towards a full long term Higher National

qualification in the future

• Increased likelihood of convincing employers to sponsor their training,

due to lower cost, shorter time and less overall commitment required

• Ability to gain more niche skills and to upskill and reskill

• HN Flex gives access to world-class short-term skills progression for learners,

through the world’s learning company Pearson.

Education Providers

• As an education institution offering Higher Nationals,

HN Flex gives you access to wider corners of the market

• The chance to build relationships with local employers through addressing

skills development needs

• The ability to provide a CPD offering outside of normal qualifications

• The chance to attract adult students back into education

• Flexible patterns of delivery: for example, short dedicated unit programmes

of study, integration into full HN delivery, blended delivery, etc.

Employers

• Provide CPD via recognised qualification content

• No need for long commitment of a full qualification

• Lower investment

• The ability to target specific skills and upskill employees rapidly

• The chance to build relationships with the region’s local college/s

• Alignment to Apprenticeship Standards in the UK