The course is designed to cultivate the essential skills you’ll need for your future career. A high level of practical laboratory experience instils competency and professionalism, together with team working, dexterity, and numeracy – all fundamental to future employment. Your ethics, approach and positive attitude are developed through team working, independent learning, and professional practice and volunteering opportunities, aligned to your personal employment goals/aspirations. Questioning and challenging throughout the course will enable you to articulately and effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences across a variety of platforms. We offer an innovative approach to work-based learning. The curriculum has been designed for the development of specific subject knowledge and practical skills in forensic science while providing opportunities for personal and professional development. The valuable transferable skills that you will gain in these modules include critical thinking, effective group work, data mining through use of electronic and classical sources of information, record-keeping, problem solving, independent learning, communication of ideas to various audiences and project management.