AAT Qualification

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edited 10:09AM in AAT student discussion
Does anyone know what the equivalent qualification of AAT is? Is it a degree? or less than that?

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  • System
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    AAT Qualification

    Technician Level is NVQ Level 4, which I have heard said is the equivalent of the first year of a degree course.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    AAT Qualification

    Is it HND?
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    According to The AAT magazine a few months ago Technician level is the same level as the second year of an honours degree course.<BR><BR>Which makes sense if you think about the exemptions for ACCA/Cima as their intermediate levels are dgree equivalent and final are Master level.
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    Hi<BR><BR>I read the article that said the NVQ 4 was the same level as the second year of a degree, but having done 2nd year degree study I can only assume that either the course I was on was harder than average or that degrees have got a bit easier.<BR><BR>I think its faier to say that technician/level 4 is more on par with first year degree/HNC.<BR><BR>Neil
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    <BR><BR>Disagree. I took a Bsc honours degree, which in the third year, involved having to produce a dozen 'lab' reports, a year-long project which had to be properly published and bound and sit ten 'final' papers within a fortnight. Given it was full-time course, it is no surprise it was far more arduous (and completely burnt me out!).<BR><BR>AAT is obviously lesser than this, but when you bear in mind it is a *vocational* course, in which you have to produce workplace evidence, which in itself entails all kinds of skills (e.g., the ability to get on with people, be computer literate and hold down a job, as well as get it in the first place) - and I personally found the exams real headbangers - it really is of a genuinely high level and I would say, definitely beyond 'first year degree' level, which more often than not, is a pretty basic foundation year for most undergraduate students.<BR><BR><BR>Just my tuppence worth.<BR>
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    The Open University awards 90 level 2 credits for Technician level, i.e. equal to 3/4 of the second year of a degree.<BR><BR>Sara
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Thanks all....Have just found out that it is equivalent to Degree/EDEXCEL or HND.

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