Thinking About a Career in Computing, IT and e-Learning?

Are you doing the same thing day in and day out? Do you want to join an exciting and dynamic sector? Our courses are employer endorsed, designed with you in mind and provide excellent access to the world of work.

The Department of Computing, IT and e-Learning uses the latest technology to enable us to deliver media rich content to students across the College and the Barnfield Federation. The Computing and IT team are highly specialised industry professionals who are happy to pass on their extensive knowledge and skills. Based at our Technology Campus, Enterprise Way, you will have access to state-of-the-art IT suites and work across a range of programming languages. Computing, IT and e-Learning is a diverse and fascinating industry to work in. The skills you will learn can lead to careers in systems support, computer hardware, creating software for systems, apps for mobile devices as well as games design, designing and building web pages, editing film and video for multimedia and designing and developing converged telecommunications systems...the list is endless.

For many years the department has led the way for computing education nationally. Students are given the opportunity to keep abreast of the changing demands of our industry. Graduates from our department, have gone on to university and achieved highly successful, exciting careers in business. Many also take part in skills competitions where they are able to demonstrate their skills. Their success has given some of them the life changing opportunity of representing their country in WorldSkills –“The Skills Olympics.“

Barnfield tutors are some of the best in the world – it’s official. Our tutors have represented the UK as Training Manager and Expert Judges at WorldSkills 2009 and are busy training potential competitors for WorldSkills 2011 London. This high level of expertise resulted in a Barnfield student wining a Medallion for Excellence in the WorldSkills 2009 competition in Calgary, Canada. Hugo Landau, a networking student at the College, represented Britain in the ICT Network Support competition. The 19 year old achieved Britain’s highest score ever in this section and he received the highest point score of any of the British medallion winners.