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Short courses

Short courses are a great way of learning new skills and can help you take your interest to the next level.

Available courses

3 Day Short Course in Domestic Plumbing Maintenance - Feb 2022 Adults and Part-Time Courses

3 Day Short Course in Domestic Plumbing Maintenance - Feb 2022

This short plumbing course will teach you a range of skills for fitting and maintaining pipes and appliances in your home.  All tools and materials are provided for the course, however you will need steel toe capped boots and easily washable clothes or overalls as you may get messy.

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Advanced Animation Adults and Part-Time Courses

Advanced Animation

A course for people to build upon their basic animation skills and to develop body and facial animation for characters of cinema and television.

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An Introduction to Virtual Production in Unreal Adults and Part-Time Courses

An Introduction to Virtual Production in Unreal

Using our state-of-the-art TV Studio, PC and Unreal Engine you will gain an insight and a working knowledge into the new medium that is taking the creative world by storm.

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Get Started in the Creative Industries Adults and Part-Time Courses

Get Started in the Creative Industries

This is a 6-week course, taught by working practitioners in the Film and Games Industry, that will give you the tools you need to ‘get started’ in a Creative Career. 

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Sports Massage Therapy: ITEC Level 3 Diploma (Feb) Adults and Part-Time Courses

Sports Massage Therapy: ITEC Level 3 Diploma (Feb)

You will be qualified to work as a sports massage practitioner and have opportunity to work in a variety of settings including health clubs and clinics.

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Acting for Screen - Part Time Evening Adults and Part-Time Courses

Acting for Screen - Part Time Evening

An intensive practical course in screen acting performance, and techniques for acting in front of the camera. It is aimed at students with some experience of acting and who wish to develop confidence in front of the camera. The course is taught by established film and TV actor Gary Grant - more information here

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Keeping Garden Chickens Adults and Part-Time Courses

Keeping Garden Chickens

This course will introduce you to keeping your own chickens at home

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Refresh your Skills in Beauty: Level 2 Adults and Part-Time Courses

Refresh your Skills in Beauty: Level 2

This refresher course is ideal for those who have previously qualified but may have taken a break from the industry and have therefore lost their confidence and/or are a bit rusty. This short course will provide you with the practical techniques in manicures, eye treatments and waxing techniques. Students must bring their own manicure equipment and be willing to work on others in the class to practise. It will take place at our Epsom site in our modern, professional beauty teaching salon.

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Refresher Course in Hairdressing: Colouring Skills Adults and Part-Time Courses

Refresher Course in Hairdressing: Colouring Skills

Brush up your colouring techniques! This refresher course is ideal for a qualified hairdresser (minimum Level 2) who is a bit rusty in their colouring theory and practical colouring skills. This short course will provide you with the basic colouring theory and practical techniques. Students must bring their own equipment and a hairdressing head to classes. The course is delivered at our Epsom site in our modern, professional hairdressing salons.

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Window-box and back-yard vegetables Adults and Part-Time Courses

Window-box and back-yard vegetables

Make use of any space, no matter how small, to grow your own produce.

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Short Courses at Nescot

Our Rebuild programme of training and development solutions to help support your post-Covid plans include new on-site part-time courses here in Ewell and remote courses that you can study from anywhere in the country. A large proportion of our remote courses are free, providing you meet eligibility requirements.

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Computing & IT

Computing & IT

Computing extends to every area of the economy and no other skill is so uniquely placed to allow you to map your own future. Whether you long to be part of a large international company, or the key person in a small organisation, computing skills can take you wherever you want to go. All our courses give you the option of pursuing your education or entering employment.

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Business & Accounting

Business & Accounting

Business and accounting courses at Nescot are designed with one thing in mind – your career success. All of our courses give you the option of taking your education further or succeeding in the world of employment.

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Distance Learning

Distance Learning

Our Level 1 and Level 2 courses are free of charge providing you meet the eligibility criteria. Distance Learning lets you fit studying into your busy life giving you the flexibility to manage work and family.

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Construction

Construction

Our site at Nescot is large and equipped with well stocked workshops with group work areas and individual units. All the workshops are linked so you will learn your specific subject alongside all the other construction trades to give you an overview of how they fit together. We also have cutting edge facilities like specialist electrical testing rooms to ensure your skills are up to the highest standards.

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