Cyber Security
Two years learning to defend systems and to test them.
Leads to Cyber security analyst, monitoring and responding to threats.
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Digital Technologies HNDs in Dubai
Seven technical routes under one Pearson award. Year one is the common ground: networks, programming, databases, how systems actually behave. Year two is the specialism, and it goes deep enough that an entry-level employer will take you on what you can do.
The seven routes
Software Development and Programming
You write code from the first term and keep writing it.
Leads to Software developer, building desktop, mobile or enterprise software.
See the programmeData Analytics
The work of turning a messy spreadsheet into a decision somebody can act on.
Leads to Data analyst, turning messy data into decisions someone can act on.
See the programmeCloud Networking
Networks first, then the cloud built on top of them.
Leads to Cloud administrator, running networks and the cloud services built on them.
See the programmeGames and Animation
Two years in a studio routine, designing, modelling, animating and building in Unity and Unreal.
Leads to Game designer, building and shipping playable work.
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Applied AI rather than AI theory, so you build the models instead of deriving them.
Leads to AI solutions developer, putting models into products people use.
See the programmeWeb and Content Management
Half of it is building the site, half is running what gets published on it.
Leads to Web developer, front end or full stack.
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Also available as a 1-year route
Applied AI for Business, Operations and Automation covers implementation rather than theory, in twelve months.
What they share
- Awarded by Pearson. Recognised in 70+ countries.
- Assessed on lab work, builds and projects.
- Entry: completed higher secondary education, +2 or equivalent, and working English.
- Guaranteed internship on a real codebase or a real system, paying up to AED 1,000 a month based on performance.
- Direct entry into the final year of a UK bachelor's degree.
Who it suits
These programmes reward people who will sit with a problem. The assessment is practical, so if your school results undersold you but you have been building things since you were fourteen, this format is fairer to you than an exam hall.
Bring a laptop that can handle the work. It is the cost most students forget.
Two of these seven probably fit you
The finder will say which. Four questions, and it reads the whole catalogue rather than this page.
If this is not the right shape
Next steps
- Where technical graduates end up
The internship programme, the employer network and what happens after it.
- Fees and funding
What the fee covers, what it does not, and how instalments work.
- How to apply
About ten minutes, and your answers save as you go.
Ready to choose which route?
Applications are open for the next intake. Bring the two you are weighing up and a counsellor will tell you what separates them in year two.
An admissions counsellor replies within one working day.