LCCI International Qualifications, the UK’s leading international awarding body for vocational business qualifications, has teamed up with James Watt College (JWC), one of the UK’s most dynamic higher education institutions, to offer a new pathway for its successful candidates to achieve degrees from highly regarded UK universities. The new partnership will enable LCCI candidates who achieve three LCCI Level 3 certificates to progress to the four months LCCI Graduate Access Programme (LCCI GAP) and from then on to a JWC Higher National Diploma (HND) course. After the HND, successful candidates can progress directly to Year 3 of Accounting Degree Programmes from three UK universities.

Speaking of the collaboration Sean Leslie, Asia Managing Director for LCCI International Qualifications said “The new LCCI GAP pathway means that LCCI candidates can now achieve a UK Accounting degree within two years and they will also get the additional benefit of a fully accredited UK HND as part of the process. I am delighted that LCCI is going to be associated with a high quality and fast moving institution in James Watt College and this partnership represents a major stride towards our goal that LCCI candidates get full recognition for the high standards they achieve. Over the coming months and years we will put in place the comprehensive range of academic and professional pathways that successful Asian LCCI students deserve.”

“This initiative also represents our commitment to support Singapore’s regional educational hub aspirations. Although LCCI operates across Asia and receives a 150,000 examination entries from the region annually, the LCCI GAP programme will initially only be available in Singapore and we expect students from many other Asian countries to come to Singapore to take advantage of this new opportunity”, added Leslie.

Professor Bill Wardle, Principal of James Watt College also welcomed the collaboration, “James Watt College (JWC) has a commitment to expand vocational learning opportunities with the aim of empowering student’s potential. We believe the new pathway we have developed with LCCI does exactly that and we look forward to welcoming LCCI students into our programmes.”
The first LCCI GAP programme will commence in January 2006.

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