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Admission to Seychelles Polytechnic

The selection criteria for admission are established by the Programme Areas of the Seychelles Polytechnic and will take into account an applicant's performance at IGCSE level.

Thus, entrants to the Seychelles Polytechnic will normally be:

• applicants from Secondary Schools upon completion of Secondary-5 in relevant subject areas;

• applicants from Upgrading Courses;

• applicants from the World-of-Work whose educational background qualifies them for direct entry onto diploma/advanced level courses.

N.B The Polytechnic reserves ten percent of its places, per course and per subject, to students defined as mature.

• Flexibility leading to greater availability of course options allows individuals or organizations to negotiate training programmes which match their specific needs.

• Either trainees may integrate full-time programmes leading to full certification which will most often be the case for pre-service trainees;

• or trainees may cover the components of a training programme over a longer period of time which can be the case of students on part-time release from organizations;

• or trainees may follow competency-focused, block-release short courses satisfying specific training needs;

In other words, full certification is not the only and automatic outcome of trainees' studies although this is the most common outcome in the case of pre-service trainees following full-time courses. Certificates of competency in specific areas may also be issued.