Bricklaying Diploma Level 2 Apprenticeship
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- Entry Requirements
- Progression & Assessment
- Duration & Location
- Fees
- Further Information
Course Description
Programme Aim:
Trainees attending this programme will be working towards individual unit credits for a Diploma Level 2. A modular pattern allows trainees to progress at their own pace on units of competence approved by the Construction Industry Training Board and City & Guilds. Trainees can also work towards individual units.
Units
- Know how to carry out safe working practices in construction
- Carry out safe working practices in construction
- Knowledge of information, quantities and communicating with others
- Information, quantities and communicating with others
- Knowledge of building methods and construction technology
- Building methods and construction technology
- Know how to interpret working drawings to set out masonry structures
- Interpret working drawings to set out masonry structures
- Knowledge of thin joint masonry and masonry cladding
- Thin joint masonry and masonry cladding
- Know how to build solid walling, isolated and attached piers
- Build solid walling, isolated and attached piers
- Know how to build cavity walling forming masonry structures
- Build cavity walling forming masonry structures
Entry Requirements
Formal qualifications may not necessarily be required; however applicants may be required to take literacy, numeric and aptitude tests and to prove suitability for the course through an interview process.
Progression & Assessment
Achievement, Assessment and Examinations:
A combination of coursework assessment for bricklaying elements and internal/external multi-choice examinations, leads to successful achievement of the qualification.
Progression:
On completion of the Diploma Award, progression routes available include;
i) Collect Work Based Evidence from the workplace and convert the award to a full NVQ Level 2 in Bricklaying.
ii) The Diploma Level 3 Award and NVQ 3 in Bricklaying
Duration & Location
Attendance will be by block release, (or day / evening course if available)
Fees
If you are under 19 on 31 August when your programme begins and study more that 12 ½ hours per week, you will be entitled to free tuition and no examination fees, wherever you live provided you are a European Community National. Mature students may also qualify for free tuition and no examination fees, please ask our Student Services for details.
Further Information
School of Construction & Engineering
For further details please contact the Information Office on 01522 876274
