
Northumberland College offers a comprehensive range of business and administration courses for people who want to develop skills for work in the business, finance, administration and secretarial sectors.
Our full and part time courses range from level 1 to level 5 and are suitable for those who want to enter a career in this diverse sector or wish to develop additional skills to progress in their current career.
Learning opportunities include business and administration, secretarial and office technology, management, team leading, retail and customer service.
You can choose from flexible learning options that fit around your lifestyle and work commitments. Many courses are offered in the evenings, as distance learning and are available at our centres in Ashington, Berwick and Blyth as well as community venues throughout Northumberland.
We also cater for organisations who wish to enhance the qualifications and effectiveness of their staff.
If you’re new to the sector you’ll be able to learn in a realistic business environment in our well equipped training office at our Ashington campus.
If you already work in the field, you can choose from a range of NVQ courses that allow you to gain qualifications by distance or work based learning. Our eNVQ courses in management, supply chain management, customer service and business and administration are predominantly based on electronic learning.
You can study the A1 and V1 assessor qualifications through distance learning or eNVQ.
If you have some office experience and would like to achieve a level 3 qualification our brand new Certificate in Administration (Business Professional) course may be the course for you.