Our Information Technology department offers a broad range of learning opportunities for people preparing for a career in fields including web design, IT support, computer networking and server support, as well as training on computer applications for those wishing to develop skills for office based careers.

Our well-equipped IT centre has more than 100 PCs and offers access to a wide range of industry standard software including the full Microsoft Office suite, multimedia applications and access to your own virtual learning environment.

We partner Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA to bring together a range of unique courses and have four hardware laboratories to offer the very latest in networking, security and operating system developments including Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

Many of our full time students studying BTEC courses go on to university and become successful IT graduates, whilst some of our students choose to go into employment in the rapidly expanding IT industry.

We also offer Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships in IT. Contact advice.centre@northland.ac.uk or 01670 841200 for more details.

Career opportunities...
IT technician, IT support, programmer and software developer are just some of the careers available to you if you study a course in information technology.