This course offers those with a Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) Higher National Certificate (HNC)/Higher National Diploma (HND) in an appropriate discipline the chance to gain a degree and become a qualified secondary school teacher within 2 years; the course has at its core the knowledge and understanding needed to support the capability to investigate, design, make and evaluate; the programme builds upon the student’s entry qualifications and extends and develops the design and technology knowledge that they have already achieved.