**One of our former students writes about his experience with IT certifications:** "Having being made redundant I decided to take the opportunity to pursue a career in something I was genuinely interested in doing so enrolled at the CAT to gain some IT certifications. Having the excellent support...

We will shortly be launching our fourth Professional IT Academy within the CAT. Virtualisation brings a new paradigm in computing which revolutionises both server and desktop processing and storage. We are proud to be hosting a VMWare IT academy, the market leader in virtualisation technology. The VMWare...

Sunderland CAT has played host to a visit from the Riyadh college of Telecoms and Information, Saudi Arabia this month. We have been fortunate enough to participate in an “Twinning Programme” organised by the British Council, designed to encourage partnerships with similar overseas academies. This is...

The Sunderland CAT has recently been awarded the Training Quality Standard in recognition of the excellent training and development solutions it provides to employers. The Standard is accredited by an external assessment process. We are very proud to have achieved the Standard which is by its own merits, tough to...

At the Sunderland CAT we provide testing facilities for both Pearson VUE and Prometric testing. This facility provides testing to both our own students, those students attending a course with us and people only wishing to sit an online certification exam. For further information about the exams available please see:...

The Centre for Advanced Technology took the wraps of its new website, featuring a fully searchable course database. The site highlights the full range of services on offer from the Centre - including academic, professional IT courses and consultancy.