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Gateway Qualifications Level 1 Diploma in Skills for Creative Industries
This gateway skills qualification allows you to experience a range of creative industry skills, including Art and Design, Media and Music.
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Which way now? We offer a wide range of options – but which one is right? Our team is here to support you make the right choice.
The Personal Development Programme has five different strands designed to support students’ personal development alongside their curriculum knowledge.
Your Personal Development Coach will cover five themes: Keeping Safe, Wellbeing, Behaviours and Attitudes, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Upskilling and Progression. All students have this programme built into their timetable.
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The Access to HE Diploma is a full Level 3 qualification. Access to HE Diplomas are made up of 60 credits, 45 of these are at Level 3 and graded. The remaining 15 credits are not graded. Students must successfully achieve 60 credits to be awarded a Diploma.
Our Access to HE courses are designed to give students relevant academic subject knowledge and the opportunity to learn how to approach study at university-level and develop techniques.
*We also offer some Pre-Access courses at Level 2 and Level 1.
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You can apply for your chosen course online by clicking the ‘Apply’ button. The ‘Apply’ button is located below the course overview on the relevant course page.
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Please ensure you complete all sections of the application form. If information is missing or incomplete, it may delay your application.
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You can also call or email the college to report an absence, but please make sure you do this by 8:45am.
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Over recent years, the college has gone from strength to strength, earning Ofsted’s ‘Good’ rating at last inspection. We recognise that this achievement was due to the hard work and dedication of our staff members and we understand the importance of recognising and rewarding this.
The college hold KUE Awards (Kindness, Unity and Excellence) every six months where staff are nominated by their peers and can win additional holidays, shopping vouchers, food vouchers and much more.
Every other year, the college hosts a slightly more prestigious awards ceremony, KC Stars, where the whole college come together to applaud the achievements and actions of those who have gone above and beyond.
One of the standout benefits of working at Kirklees College is our generous holiday entitlement. Full-time staff enjoy a minimum of 30 days of holiday per year, including 5 closure days.
In addition, colleagues also enjoy 10 bank holidays over and above their annual leave allowance. Compared to the statutory minimum, we provide at least 2 weeks more bookable holiday!
We appreciate the importance of regular rest and recuperation and ensure our holiday allowance reflects that.
Over recent years, the college has gone from strength to strength, earning Ofsted’s ‘Good’ rating at last inspection. We recognise that this achievement was due to the hard work and dedication of our staff members and we understand the importance of recognising and rewarding this.
The college hold KUE Awards (Kindness, Unity and Excellence) every six months where staff are nominated by their peers and can win additional holidays, shopping vouchers, food vouchers and much more.
Every other year, the college hosts a slightly more prestigious awards ceremony, KC Stars, where the whole college come together to applaud the achievements and actions of those who have gone above and beyond.
One of the standout benefits of working at Kirklees College is our generous holiday entitlement. Full-time staff enjoy a minimum of 30 days of holiday per year, including 5 closure days.
In addition, colleagues also enjoy 10 bank holidays over and above their annual leave allowance. Compared to the statutory minimum, we provide at least 2 weeks more bookable holiday!
We appreciate the importance of regular rest and recuperation and ensure our holiday allowance reflects that.
All staff are entered into a pension scheme relevant to their role with generous employer contributions.
Business Support staff are automatically entered into the West Yorkshire Pension Scheme, with 19.1% employer contributions.
Teaching staff are automatically entered into the Teacher’s Pension Scheme, with 23.6 % employer contributions.
Not just available to students, college staff are also eligible to purchase a student discount card through TOTUM. Once purchased this allows access to discounts on clothing, days out and much more. Furthermore, you get a free TASTE card and Coffee Club membership to use at restaurants and cafes.
All employees of Kirklees College are able to benefit from a free subscription to Microsoft 365 whilst employed by the college.
Curry’s PC World voucher scheme: with this scheme you can buy a voucher for any amount up to £1500 and spread the cost over a 12-month period to come out of your monthly pay. The voucher can be used online or in store on any products in Curry’s PC World.
Discounted Rail and Bus Travel: discounts on Metro yearly passes can save you 12%, furthermore college will loan you the money and repayments can come directly from your wage monthly. Take the bus? No worries we also have you covered too with 16.5% discount on monthly bus passes with Arriva and Yorkshire Tiger bus.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is very important, so the college offers the following to all staff:
This health programme is available to all staff. The service provides free and confidential support that is available 24 hours a day. Furthermore, six counselling sessions are included with no cost to staff.
The college will contribute towards the cost of your eye examination and the cost of glasses, if it is deemed necessary for your role.
At our Huddersfield Centre, staff have access to the fully equipped sport and fitness centre for just £2.50 per month, and can also access a variety of local gyms at a discounted rate.
Discounts are available to all staff across the college on a wide range of hair and beauty treatments including haircuts and colours, massage and manicures. The treatments are carried out by our Kirklees College students under the close supervision of the highly qualified hair and beauty lecturers.
This tax exemption initiative is to promote healthier journeys to work and allows you to purchase a bicycle and claim it back via your wage before paying tax, in effect making it 20% cheaper.
We recognise that many of our staff have responsibilities for family or dependants and operate a number of initiatives to help colleagues balance these responsibilities with work.
The college has a number of schemes that cover the following family circumstances:
We are happy to consider requests for flexible working in line with the flexible working policy.
We provide excellent CPD for our staff through a range of opportunities, including:
An annual individual Performance Development Review (PDR) provides the opportunity to discuss your personal CPD requirements and career aspirations.
