BTEC Diploma Courses

TMS offers an extensive range of training courses in the field of Road Safety and Traffic Management.  All courses offer a 'hands on' approach to training and are recognised for CPD by the IHE and CIHT

BTEC Diploma Courses

TMS and City of Bath College continues their joint highways and transport training initiative to tackle the learning and skills gap in the highways and transportation Sector.

TMS is able to offer an extensive range of training courses in the field of Highway Design, Traffic Management, Highway Technology and Highway Maintenance.  All courses offer a 'hands on' approach to training and are also recognised for CPD by the IHE and CIHT.

Introduction:

TMS and City of Bath College launched a new joint training initiative in January 2010. This allowed the City of Bath College's very popular Highways Open Tech distance learning courses to be delivered in taught modular form by TMS as an expansion to their current highways and transportation training courses portfolio. The initiative concentrates on four diploma courses Highway Design, Highway Technology, Transport Planning and Traffic Management and Highway Maintenance. The courses will lead to BTEC Certificates of Achievement for delegates through completion of a series of assignments that will be assessed by TMS and City of Bath College. These courses can also contribute to the achievement of a Professional Diploma in Civil Engineering by further study of Highways and Transportation topics material from the TMS and City of Bath College training programme.

Four courses are being offered;

Highway Design

Highway Technology

Transport Planning and Traffic Management

Highway Maintenance

Course Format:

Each course will be taught as 4 separate modules of 2 days duration, adding up to a total of 8 days. At the end of each module an assignment will be set. This should be completed by the student and submitted by the start of the next module. There will be around 6 weeks between the modules, which allows students sufficient time to complete the assignment and hand it before the next module commences.  

BTEC Certificate of Achievement 

On completion of all 4 assignments (see course format) to a satisfactory standard and within the specified timescale a BTEC Certificate of Achievement will be awarded to students. There is no examination. Students wishing to register for a BTEC award must do so at the enrolment at the start of the first module of the course. It is not possible to do this subsequently.

Students can attend the courses and not undertake the assignments if they wish and will receive a certificate of attendance (providing all the modules are attended).  

A joint TMS / City of Bath College Certificate will also be issued to students completing the course.

Regional and In-house courses

TMS can also run the courses on a regional and in-house basis. The courses can be run in-house for organisations or groups of organisations which can get together. This may be more cost effective for organisations where there are 10 or more students. 

Future development of other courses

TMS can also run other courses from the City of Bath College Highways Open Tech programme subject to demand. The possibility of expanding this to provide a BTEC Professional Diploma in Civil Engineering using the Highways and Transportation course material from City of Bath College is also available.

CPD and training knowledge requirements for TVQ and qualification for Eng Tech / I Eng

City of Bath College Highways Open Tech 

 
A full list of the distance learning courses that City of Bath College runs is available on their website www.citybathcoll.ac.uk  
 

Further Information

Please follow the links above for each module or contact Gill Brooks at TMS for further information on the joint initiative.