Applied Sciences

Course summary

This course is for students who are interested in a career in the Science sector. This course has been developed to give you the skills and knowledge you will need to deal with the challenges you will face whilst working in or studying in this field. You will develop professional and practical skills through carrying out real experiments and research, working with local employers who can provide a workplace setting or national research projects that use volunteers to gather data, as well as theoretical knowledge and understanding to underpin these skills. This will allow you to practice lab techniques required in an industrial setting using equipment that may not be readily available in the classroom. You will be made aware of safe working practices in a lab and the strict legal requirements you must adhere to. This course is vocational and so always makes the science that you learn relevant to real-world tasks and problems, whether that is preparing samples for forensic analysis or learning about medical techniques. We aim to make strong links with local science-based businesses and organize trips to give students a taste of the relevance of science to business and research.