Stack skills. Shape your future.
HN Flex is a new study option at the RNN Group from September 2025, allowing you to undertake selected modules of a university-level course on an individual basis.
Learners – Learn at your own pace, fit study around work and life, gain skills employers want now.
- Study individual units from Level 4 and 5 qualifications when you need them – No full programme commitment.
- Stack units over time toward a full HNC or HND
- Short, focused learning – Ideal for working professionals, career changers, and Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
Employers – Upskill your workforce quickly and cost-effectively, focusing only on relevant skills.
Modules are available in Business, Computing, Engineering, Health Science and Modern Methods of Construction. They are a great option for anyone who wishes to increase their skills and knowledge without committing to studying for an entire qualification.
Learning that flexes with you
HN Flex modules are available to undertake separately or stack into a larger qualification. They are designed to equip you with the skills to take your next career steps and reach your earning potential.
Your Higher National, your pace
Each module takes around one term to complete and can be undertaken on a flexible basis to suit you.
Build knowledge, not financial burden
HN Flex gives you the flexibility to gain knowledge, skills and behaviours in a more efficient and bite-sized way, without having to enrol on a full qualification. Students will have the ability to “stack” units towards a full Higher National qualification in the future and gain more niche knowledge, skills and behaviours and to upskill and reskill.
HN Flex gives access to world-class short-term Higher Education progression for students.
To find out more, please email ucr@rotherham.ac.uk.
HN Flex offers students the chance to study stackable skills within a single BTEC Higher National qualification from our full range of over 40 subjects, with the progression opportunity to a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or Higher National Diploma (HND) qualification, achieving a Certificate of Unit Credit (CoUC) upon completion of the individual units studied.
A combination of up to four units from different BTEC Higher National subjects (the units cannot be combined to create a HNC/HND, students do have the opportunity to progress to a full HNC/HND, with a focus on a single subject discipline, having banked the units studied that are within a valid rule of combination).
Individual units of CPD as and when required.
Completing only units required for professional body/vendor accreditation.
Students will study individual HN units which have been adopted from the Ofqual regulated suite.
Students may be able to use their evidence of learning towards a BTEC Higher National qualification via the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process/top-up.
Based at University Centre Rotherham:
Based at our North Notts Campus:
To find out more, please email ucr@rotherham.ac.uk.