Level 3 T Level in Digital Software Development

This exciting new Level 3 technical qualification, equivalent to three A Levels, will ensure you have the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to progress into skilled employment or higher-level technical study in a variety of digital and computing occupations.

It provides a mixture of both core and specialist knowledge over a two-year period, and as part of the T Level programme you will carry out an extensive practical industry placement with an employer (minimum of 315 hours).

This is the perfect course if you wish to progress to a digital career with a focus on software design and development.

What will you learn?

• Business contexts – from infrastructure design to managing change
• Digital culture – covering ethical/moral issues
• Data analysis – with data capture, collection, visualisation and modelling
• Digital analysis – understanding algorithms, abstraction, pattern recognition and decomposition
• Digital environments – covering system fundamentals for physical, virtual and cloud computing
• Diversity and inclusion – understanding and valuing differences, sensitivities and equality
• Digital learning – covering emerging technologies, internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), computer graphics (3D)
• Digital legislation and security – from data protection and intellectual property to security and data sharing
• Planning and programming/software development – building project plans, integrating software development lifecycle (SDLC), languages such as C, C++ and Python, application and solution development.

Your education will be project-based, providing you with the knowledge and skills needed to achieve competence in your chosen specialism.