Technical Masterclasses
You can access the Technical Masterclasses from our Skills Development Hub.
Beauty therapy
This technical masterclass is designed to help you improve your luxury spa back treatment skills, using a variety of different techniques to perform this task to high standards.
Bricklaying
This technical masterclass is designed to help you improve three common jointing techniques, with a key focus on attention to detail.
Mechanical Engineering: CAD
This will help learners create accurate 2D and 3D models, gaining a deeper understanding of tools, techniques and skills to improve productivity.
Electronics
This will help learners improve their skills in soldering, identifying and using a selection of PPE and using hand tools to support component preparation.
Floristry
This will help learners acquire the necessary skills to tape wires, wire plant materials, form units for a shoulder corsage and assemble wired elements into it.
Mechatronics
After this masterclass learners will be better able to explain inputs and outputs into a PLC, explain the function of several sensor types, explain what a case structure is in PLC programming and program a short PLC program.
Building Information Modelling
This will help learners acquire the necessary skills to create a multi-storey architectural project information model (PIM), including walls, windows, doors and a roof.
Manufacturing Team Challenge
This will help learners develop the necessary skills to create a solution using Flowcode 8 to display outputs on a LCP Panel from given inputs which come in both analogue and digital format.
Culinary Arts
This will help learners acquire the necessary skills to prepare, cook and present four plated portions of cream of vegetable soup.
Stonemasonry
This technical masterclass will guide you through the process of working reverse mouldings on straight and curved work.
Cabinet Making
This technical masterclass demonstrates the importance of having good hand skills for making furniture. Having this knowledge and these techniques are vital skills to support machining techniques and knowledge.
Restaurant Services
This technical masterclass is on carving skills. It demonstrates the technique of roast chicken carving and presentation, a core skill that is involved in high-class restaurant and hotel carving.
Joinery
This technical masterclass will help you develop your skills in setting out joinery techniques, which is the first key part to the work of the joiner.
Hairdressing
This masterclass introduces all razor techniques and briefly covers when you would use them. These techniques are necessary to create a seamless blend for graduation whilst cutting the hair.
Automotive Refinishing
This masterclass covers the application techniques for wet-on-wet primer, basecoat and clear coat. As well as the often overlooked fundamentals within car spraying. Getting these basics right will help you achieve great results.
Cyber Security
This technical masterclass is designed to teach you how to set a lab to practise cybersecurity-related skills.
