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Foundation Degree at Eastwood Park | Apr 07

Eastwood Park in partnership with Kingston University, and in association with the Sector Skills Councils of Skills for Health and SEMTA, the Department of Health, IHEEM and the IDSc, has developed a Foundation Degree for three areas of medical technology:

Medical Equipment Technology

Medical Device Decontamination

Medical Gas Technology

  Foundation Degrees are new qualifications designed by employers to make sure their skill needs are being met. They are ideal for staff that don’t want to give up their job to study full-time and are a great way of achieving personal educational aims using a more vocational route.  This particular programme can be studied on a flexible basis, as it is delivered by a ‘blend’ of learning methods. It is likely that elements of the programme will be studied in the workplace, at home and at Eastwood Park.  All Foundation Degrees are university validated and provide a route to progression to the third year of one or more Honours Degrees at the validating university.

This Foundation Degree goes beyond the Level 3 NVQ’s in these technology areas and will allow access to the final year of a number of Kingston Universities Science and Engineering Honours Degrees.  In addition the programme will relate to the Voluntary Register of Clinical Technologists and membership of relevant Professional Bodies.  It is suitable for current and aspiring Managers, Supervisors, Test Persons, Authorised Persons, Engineers, and Senior Technicians etc working in these medical technology areas.

This Foundation Degree consists of common mandatory core modules, which all students must study, as well as pathway specific modules relevant to the student’s work role.  Further details of these modules are available from Eastwood Park through the contact outlined below.

The Foundation Degree in Medical Technologies is due to commence in October 2007 and this two year programme is funded in the same way as other degree programmes with only university tuition fees being payable by UK residents.  Eastwood Park is operating an ‘expression of interest’ scheme for this programme and you are encouraged to contact us at the address below to register your interest.

ELC number ELCAS 1122