Touch Typing Courses

Objective

To provide a user friendly and totally flexible approach to learning the skill of an accurate touch typist.

To provide certification of the skill achieved for potential employers.

Course Format

Our Touch Typing Course is very flexible and can fit around a wide range of schedules and requirements. The course can be taken at home or at our training college (during office hours). Our college is open most evenings and on Saturday. Live tutors are available during office hours for guidance and assistance.

Course Content

The course can move forward at your own pace and requirements and provides many practical exercises to help you learn the techniques and build speed.

For beginners or those needing to refresh touch typing skills, the course will introduce the touch typing techniques and positioning of the hands. The course provides numerous assessments to check your progress.

For more advanced typists it offers a lot of practical exercises to test you and help you build your speed and accuracy.

Additional Info

An essential attribute of a successful Secretary, Administrator or PA is fast and accurate typing skill. Many firms place emphasis on the requirement for strong typing skills as part of their vetting procedure for new employees.

Students will learn how to confidently touch type and thereby develop a faster typing speed. This foundation in touch typing techniques can lead to many students achieving speeds well over 65 wpm which is the higher end of employer requirements for new employees.

If you would prefer, this course can be done at home or at the office. You can use a laptop, however we recommend using a standard keyboard. We have discounted Keyboards (for laptops) to enable students with laptops to practice, at home, on a standard keyboard.

Dates and Duration

Flexible timing; it can be completed at any time at home or during our office hours (weekdays, most evenings and Saturdays). You have up to one year to continue the course.

It enables intensive full-time training or part-time training to meet a busy work schedule.

Full-time courses runs for one month, but can be extended on application or made available part-time.

Part-time courses runs for three months, but can also be extended on application.

Suitable for

This course is suitable for all levels of ability from beginners to experienced professionals who are looking to refresh or improve their skills. Please bear in mind that typing speeds can improve at differential rates.

Course Requirements

There are no pre-requisites as the course can handle beginners through to experienced typists.

Benefits

Testing and certification is available at the end of the course or at an earlier date, if you achieve your results quickly

Flexibility - part-time or full-time

Live tutors available for assistance in office hours

Can take course at home, at work or in our centre, whichever suits you best.

Outcome

Typing test then  certification is available at the end of the course or at an earlier date, if you achieve your results quickly

Fast and accurate typing speed.

The aim of the course is to reach the level of speed or accuracy that you personally aim to reach.

We can certify your typing from any speed above 45wpm, as this is normally the requested typing speed on standard job applications.