National Training Authority:
Welcome to the National Training Authority - Ireland's flagship college for Distance Learning based in Dublin. Our aim is to help you achieve more and develop your potential. So whether you want to embark on a new career, set up a business, acquire new skills, gain a promotion or perhaps just pursue a hobby or interest and maybe even make some money from it, we can help you realise those goals.
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We offer a wide range of certificate and diploma courses in the following areas:
- Career Opportunities
- Business & Management
- Creative Arts
- General Interest
- Personal Skills & Development
- Writing CoursesThe following are examples of the courses available. For a full prospectus, please contact us by completing the form on our Contact Page.
Brand Management for Consumer Goods
This advanced course is for anyone who needs to know how to manage the most valuable assets in the business world - brands. This is a complete guide on developing and managing sophisticated strategies that will ensure lasting brand value so whether you are in control of an established company, starting up a new one, or managing brands in any sector, this course will prove a terrific investment for you.
Specifically the course covers the following topics:
- How to create a brand vision.
- How companies create brand strategies.
- What positioning strategies firms use.
- How a brand culture is created.
- How Public Relations can help build a brand.
- How to grow a premium brand.
- About product-line extensions.
- How to devise the best strategy for your brand.
- Brands versus Private Labels.
- What to consider when extending, revitalising and deleting brands.
- How to take a brand into a new market.
Become a Qualified Foot Care Practitioner
Diploma Award Course by home-study (Distance Learning)
*The fee for this course covers two weeks practical supervised training in the UK College of Foot Health Practitioners located on the West Midlands but does not cover travelling or subsistence expenses.
Home Study course of 10 Modules. Accredited Qualifications
Course Details
A foot health practitioner attends to all of the common conditions that affect the foot and leg. This can range from routine care of nails, through treatment of verrucas and hard corns to flatfeet, to bunions to functional problems of the foot.
There is a great need of properly qualified foot health care practitioners in Ireland today as there is a higher proportion of elderly people in our population and fewer young people to look after them. Add to this the rise in diabetes (diabetes have a regular and on-going need for professional foot care) and overweight people generally in our society – who make heavy demands upon their feet and you can begin to see the potential. Finally, sporting people are always anxious to ensure their feet are in excellent order.
This course will fully train you to be a Foot Health Practitioner. The college in the UK where you undertake your practical training is run by clinicians who also work in their own successful practices, and it is these dedicated professionals who have compiled this course and supervise students at work. They also conduct the practical training and have many years experience in this field. Following successful completion of the course you will have the opportunity to find financial independence and work satisfaction, in this much-in-demand occupation. You will also be automatically offered access to professional indemnity insurance – a most important consideration when you are about to commence practicing as a foot health care practitioner. You are also fully covered whilst undergoing the practical training.
How long will the course take you to complete?
The course starts off with the home study section which will take you between 8 and 10 months to complete. This section gives you the necessary knowledge that must be acquired before you turn to application. It contains 10 Modules. The practical training then follows and you are given dates for this on enrolment.
The Management of Consumer Lending
Diploma Award Course by home-study (Distance Learning). Accredited Qualifications
Course Details
This course is a very comprehensive description of the management tools, skills and techniques necessary to run a consumer lending business. It also outlines a process for intelligent risk-taking that is commensurate with achieving an appropriate return.
Specifically the course covers the following topics:- Consumer Products
- Credit scoring
- Getting business
- The direct mail approach
- Portfolio Management
- Collection strategies and tactics
- Mortgages
- Profit analysis
- Recession Management
Your own personally appointed tutor will provide you with expert guidance and tuition throughout your studies.
Digital Photography
Diploma Award Course by home-study (Distance Learning). Accredited Qualifications
Course Details
This course is the A to Z of digital photography that will teach you how to take professional-quality shots.
There are 10 lessons in the course divided into the following categories:
- How to get really sharp pictures
- How to shoot Still life photography
- How to take professional wedding photos
- How to shoot landscapes
- How to take sports photos
- How to take professional looking portraits
- How to avoid common problems
- How to take urban/city photos
- to print professional looking photos
- How to take difficult photos.
Forensics and Criminology
Diploma Award Course by home-study (Distance Learning). Accredited Qualifications
Course Details
This course is all about introducing the student to the fascinating subject of forensics. You will learn how the scene of a crime is assessed and to determine how and when a victim died plus a lot more.
The course is divided into four sections that cover the following broad topics:
- Section 1: Understanding the world of Forensics.
- Section 2: Uncovering the Evidence.
- Section 3: Examining the Body.
- Section 4: The work of the Crime Lab.
Your own personally appointed tutor will provide you with expert guidance and tuition throughout your studies.
Pet (Dog) Psychology
Diploma Award Course by home-study (Distance Learning). Accredited Qualifications
Course Details
Pet behavioural problems are the main reasons for the abandonment and euthanasia of otherwise healthy animals at shelters internationally. Tragically, the majority of these problems could have been corrected or avoided. The main goal of this course is to enable students to inform and advise pet owners on how to prevent or resolve behavioural problems in pets before their owners tolerance and love are lost.
Course Syllabus:
- Examining dogs in detail.
- A dog's mind.
- How dogs learn.
- Behavioural problems.
- Problems for owners.
- Problems for dogs.
- Diet problems.
- Veterinary problems.
- Aggressions problems.
- Anxiety problems.
Travel Writing
Diploma Award Course by home-study (Distance Learning). Home Study course of 8 Modules. Accredited Qualifications
Course Details
If you would like to travel the world and get paid for it, then this is the course for you. With this course you will learn the essential tools with which you may turn a love of travel and a desire to write into something very special. So, if you long to travel more and write as well, this is the course for you.
Some of the topics covered include:
- How to get started.
- Formulas for writing travel articles.
- Markets available to you.
- How to avoid pitfalls.
- How to get your work published.
Your own personally appointed tutor will provide you with expert guidance and tuition throughout your studies.
Course Materials
On enrolment a study guide, the first two modules and assignments are supplied. All subsequent modules and assignments are remitted on receipt of completed assignments.
For information on any of the courses above or any of the other courses available, please contact us by completing the form on our Contact Page.
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