Stack skills. Shape your future.
HN Flex is a study option that allows you to undertake selected modules of a university level course on an individual basis facilitating upskilling and reskilling and enabling students to pursue employment within new or alternative sectors.
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:
- TBC
To find out more, please email ucr@rotherham.ac.uk.