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Age UK Training’s training in information and communication technology (ICT) enables participants to progress from school or unemployment into work, or progress in their work and develop their career, with professional awards and qualifications in ICT.
As a participant in our training in ICT, you can gain the information technology qualification (ITQ), a nationally recognised qualification in ICT skills at level 1, level 2 or level 3.
Our programmes are for workers and job seekers of all ages, school leavers, people dealing with redundancy, career changers, and employers. Many of our programmes have government funding available for eligible participants.
The information technology qualification (ITQ) is a nationally recognised qualification in information and communication technology (ICT) suitable for any sector. Age UK Training tailor work-based ITQ training to meet the needs of the participant and the organisation.
Our tailored training enables you to gain a nationally recognised qualification in ICT skills (ITQ) at level 1, level 2 or level 3.
Glynn Poultney, Manager at EDM Group Ltd says:
‘The ITQ and essential skills training received to date have played a key part in our staff development. It has helped staff to gain confidence and expanded their knowledge of other areas within the company’
We deliver functional skills training in ICT from all our training centres in England and Wales, as components at entry level 1, entry level 2 and entry level 3, and at level 1 and level 2.
Participants can achieve nationally recognised qualifications in ICT (ITQ) through our foundation learning programme (FL), which we deliver on a rolling basis at our training centres in England.
Participants can also gain ICT key skills and qualifications through Skill Build, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales.
Find out more about our Work preparation courses
Participants can achieve national vocational qualifications in ICT through Train to Gain, the tailored training programme that we deliver through care organisations from most of our training centres in England.
Participants can gain ICT skills and qualifications through Learndirect, the e-learning programme that we deliver from our training centres in Cumbria, Greater Manchester and the north-west, and on our Computer Explorer training buses, and pathways to NVQ, which we deliver in the workplace and at our training centres in Cumbria and the north-west.
Participants can also gain ICT key skills as a mandatory component of modern apprenticeships, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales, and through our My Guide and European Computer Driving License (ECDL) training programmes.
Find out more about Apprenticeships and vocational skills training
Our government-funded My Guide programme, which we deliver as a UK online centre partner, is for eligible school leavers aged 16 to 18, workers, job seekers and older people.
As a participant in the programme, you gain ICT skills for work in any sector through a mixture of training both at our centre and in the workplace.
We deliver our open-ended My Guide programme on a rolling basis, at our training centres in Cumbria, Greater Manchester, North Midlands, the north-west, and the West Midlands, at our commercial sales centre, on our Computer Explorer training buses, or by distance learning.
Email our commercial sales centre about our My Guide programme.
Our European Computer Driving License (ECDL) programme, delivered through Learndirect and funded by the Skills Funding Agency, is for eligible school leavers aged 16 to 18, workers, job seekers, career changers and older people.
As a participant in the programme, you gain ICT skills for work in any sector through training at our centre or by distance learning.
The programme enables you to gain the European Computer Driving License (ECDL).
We deliver our open-ended ECDL programme on a rolling basis, at our training centre in Cumbria or by distance learning.
Our Computer Explorers are wheelchair-accessible, single-deck, air-conditioned buses built specifically for information and communication technology (ICT) training. The Explorers are equipped with broadband-connected computers and can be taken into the local community to reach people who may be isolated geographically or socially.
Apart from ICT training, the Computer Explorers can support activities such as:
Our four Computer Explorer training buses are based in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and can be used as needed elsewhere in Great Britain. We also have a mini-Explorer in the South West.
Email our commercial sales centre about partnership working with our Computer Explorers
Tonight with Trevor McDonaldOur Computer Explorers were featured on the ITV programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald, looking at how isolated social groups can benefit from accessing information and communication technology.
Downloads
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PDF stands for ‘portable document format’.
Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
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We have made every effort to make our PDFs accessible to screen readers. Here is an overview of your accessibility options available in Acrobat Reader. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Reader website to ensure that they are included in your version of the programme.
You can use Adobe Reader to read a PDF out loud with the following shortcut keys:
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