IHETC Campus
The questions we get asked
Collected here, with a full answer. If yours is missing, it deserves to be here: write to us and it will be.
Day-to-day study
How many hours a week should I plan for?
Fifteen to twenty hours of actual work on a job-compatible pace. That is the real figure, not the theoretical minimum: a long programme followed three hours a week does not get finished, and nobody gains by discovering that in the third month.
Are there fixed schedules?
No. Live sessions are offered and recorded, never mandatory. The only firm dates are end-of-semester assessments, published in the calendar at the start of the year so you can plan.
Can I pause for a year?
Yes, on a reasoned request. Your progress and validated results remain valid: you resume where you stopped, without redoing what you passed. Resumption happens at the next session of the module concerned.
Assessment and the value of the credential
How are we assessed remotely?
Through work submitted and marked throughout the semester, then a synthesis assessment. Assessments counting toward the certificate include an identity check: an assessment someone else can sit for you is worthless, to you and to the employer who reads it.
What exactly do I get at the end?
The qualification for the programme you completed, timestamped, with its descriptive supplement and a public verification link a recruiter opens without creating an account. Our authorisations and how to check them are published on the page devoted to our status.
Can the tutor do the work for me?
It refuses. It rephrases, offers an example, asks a question that moves things forward, but never hands over an assessment answer. That refusal is not a technical limitation: it is the condition for the resulting certificate to mean anything.
Practical conditions
My connection is unstable. Is that a blocker?
No. Courses download and run offline; your answers are sent when the signal returns and nothing is lost. This is a structuring design constraint, not a degraded mode bolted on afterwards.
Do I need a computer?
For reading, following and submitting most work, a phone is enough. Some technical programmes require a computer from the second year — that is stated on the relevant programme page, before you commit.