NCC Education

NCC Education Ltd. is a global provider and awarding body[1] of British education. The company provides students with the opportunity to gain internationally recognised British qualifications by studying at one of its global network of Accredited Partner Centres,[2] either through the classroom or online.

This article is about NCC Education. For the National Computing Centre, see National Computing Centre.
NCC Education Ltd.
Limited
IndustryEducation
Founded1966
HeadquartersManchester, United Kingdom
Websitenccedu.com

History

Originally part of the National Computing Centre, NCC Education was initially established as an IT initiative by the British Government in 1966.[3] NCC Education started offering IT qualifications in 1976 and from 1997 developed its Higher Education portfolio to include Business programmes and a range of foundation programmes.[3][4] From early 2002, NCC Education started offering Information Communication Technology (ICT) programmes for schools.

Today

Today, NCC Education has an extensive network of Accredited Partner Centres in over 50 countries, international offices situated in the UK (Manchester), China (Beijing), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Singapore and South Africa (Cape Town) and employs academic managers worldwide.[5] NCC Education is accredited by Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and regulated by Ofqual. Recognised by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS) in the UK.[6]

The company's qualifications are articulated by a number of UK universities or for entry onto years one, two and three of specific degree programmes.[7] NCC Education works in close partnership with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and the University of Greenwich.

gollark: Oh, and they constantly say "WiFi" when they mean "internet connection".
gollark: Many of my peers can operate phones and use social media and stuff, but can't debug simple problems, and confuse search engines and browsers.
gollark: They figure out a horrible broken version.
gollark: More specifically than "UI literacy".
gollark: If you do serious computering™, you'll probably write shell scripts then perl then ??? at some point.

References
  1. , UK Government Recognition as an awarding body.
  2. , Accredited Partner Centres.
  3. , NCC Education Our History page.
  4. , NCC Education Qualifications.
  5. , Regional offices contact details.
  6. , DIUS - Further Education.
  7. , Recognition & Articulations.
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