珠宝学院的HND课程以充满活力和活力的环境为基础，在英国是独一无二的，并且在业内享有很高的声誉，我们的学生和毕业生在本地和国际各地都受雇。作为HND的学生，您将从事实时，协作和面向客户的项目，通过我们针对行业的课程来丰富您的经验。您将在正宗的珠宝商工作台上工作，同时学习现代尖端技术，同时发展传统技能。该课程以实践为导向，以设计为导向，为您提供了动手实践经验的机会，以磨练您的技能。您将获得有关材料和工具的实践经验，以及用于开发设计过程的绘图和模型制作技术。
The School of Jewellery’s HND course has an excellent reputation within the jewellery industry, with our students and graduates employed at all levels locally and internationally. Being positioned in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, we are uniquely placed to provide the education and skills that we know that employers and industry are looking for.<br>As an HND student, you will be working on live, collaborative and customer-facing projects, broadening your experience through our industry-focussed curriculum. Working at authentic jewellers’ benches, you will develop traditional skills alongside knowledge of contemporary cutting-edge technology.<br>Our course will immerse you in the world of jewellery and silversmithing as you create pieces in precious and non-precious metals. You will produce pieces by hand and by mechanical means, with a particular focus on manipulating metal.<br>The practical, design-led nature of the course gives you plenty of opportunity for hands-on workshop experience to hone your skills. You’ll develop practical experience of materials and tools, alongside techniques in drawing and model making to develop your design processes.<br><br>Enhancing your employability skills<br>We have designed the course to make you the most employable jewellery graduate possible.<br>In addition to all the basic metalworking skills, you will learn about hallmarking, the history of jewellery and silverwares, gemstones and gem-setting, CAD software, and all about the newest types of digital production technologies. We pride ourselves on the fact that you will learn most of this in a practical way, by actually doing the work and our many connections to the jewellery industry support us in this.<br>Many of our graduates are now prestigious makers and designers in their own right. Kevin Gray was recently the highlight of the Silver Speaks exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Agnieszka Maksymiuk runs her own successful company. Naomi Newton-Sherlock has become the director of casting company Weston Beamor, while Jack Row runs his own bespoke pen company, which is sold through prestigious outlets such as Harrods.