This Faculty includes the teaching areas of Care, Child Studies, Health and Professional Nursing, Hairdressing, Beauty and Holistic Therapies, Pre-vocational and Foundation Studies. All staff have relevant professional and academic qualifications with extensive and varied industrial experience. The Faculty has a long and successful history in the delivery of education and training in all of the programme areas, offering the widest choice of courses in the locality. Many courses allow for recognition and credit of students previous experiences, learning and achievements. The learning environment is of a good standard with practical work areas recreating realistic work settings.
All courses maintain a high level of equipment, library, workshop and other study facilities.
The Faculty can respond to requests for specialist and specifically tailored training packages, including open learning, together with National Traineeship and Modern Apprenticeship opportunities. NVQs are also available.