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Edinburgh's Telford College
Crewe Toll
Edinburgh EH4 2NZ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 131 332 2491
Fax: +44 131 343 1218
E-mail: mail@ed-coll.ac.uk
Web site: www.ed-coll.ac.uk
Background, orientation and purpose
Profiles: United Kingdom
CONFERENCE AND EVENT MANAGEMENT HND
Overview: 2 years full-time starting in February or September.
The HND Conference and Event Management is a dynamic and specialist course which has been
designed to provide education and training in a wide variety of areas such as Entertainment,
Conferences, Exhibitions, Specialist Events, for example Festivals, Sports Events, Marketing Services
and Sponsorship.
Content
HND year 1:
All students take core units in: Conference Organisation, Conference Production, Supervision, Work
Placement, Managing an Event, Information Technology, Marketing, and Communication.
Optional Units: Training Food Service, Front Office, Entrepreneurial Skills, Live Performance
Management, DTP, Advertising, Audio Visual, Public Relations, Finance, Marketing, Quality and
Languages.
HND year 2:
All students take core units in: Applying Conference and Exhibition Management Skills,
Communication through Electronic Information Networks, Developing the Individual within a Team,
Control Systems, Marketing, Legal Issues and Business Planning.
Optional units are: Entrepreneurial Skills, Live Performance Management, Desktop publishing, and
Public Relations. Audio Visual Presentations, Entertainment Organisation, Financial Accounting,
Research Topic, Arts in Context, Training Skills, Food and Beverage Service, Front Office Procedures,
and Languages.
Assessment will be continuous throughout the course, will vary according to the subject being studied
and will involve work assignments, written tests, oral/aural tests and group exercises.
Entry Qualifications
National Certificate in an appropriate area (minimum of 12 modules) or 2 SCE 'H' Grades.
Mature applicants or people in full-time employment are considered on the basis of their previous
qualifications and work experience.
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
CONFERENCE AND EVENT MANAGEMENT HNC:
Overview: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time starting in February or September. The HNC can also
be studied by open learning, in which case students may start at any time during the academic year.
In recent years there has been an increase in the development of major venues - such as the
Edinburgh International Conference Centre - in the number of small promotion and events companies,
and in events employment linked to charities and the voluntary sector. The HNC Conference and Event
Management is a dynamic specialty course designed to provide education and training in a variety of
areas such as entertainment, conferences, exhibitions, special events (such as festivals and sporting
events), marketing services and sponsorship.
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