Programmes

Diploma Courses

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Course Structure: Diploma in Business Management

Module 1

  • Communication skills
  • Life skills
  • Information communication technology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Accounting
  • Economics
  • Business Law

Module II

  • Cost Accounting
  • Principles and practices Management
  • Supply and transport Management
  • Quantitative Techniques
  • Commercial and Administrative Law
  • Office Administration and Management
  • Marketing Management
  • Business Plan

Module III

  • Managerial Accounting
  • Organization theory and behavior
  • Human Resource Management
  • Financial Management
  • Labor and Industrial Relations
  • Research methods
  • Trade projects

Fee Structure:

Number of Terms: 6
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course: ksh 240000 ($ 2400)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Course Structure: Diploma in banking and finance

  • Social Studies
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Communication
  • Information technology
  • Quantitative methods
  • Economics
  • Principles and practice management
  • Law relating to banking services
  • The monetary and financial systems
  • Accountancy
  • Management in banking
  • Marketing of financial services
  • Branch banking: Law and practices
  • Investment
  • Lending
  • Fin. of International trade: payment & services
  • Project

Fee Structure:

Number of Terms: 6
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course: ksh 240000 ($ 2400)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Course Structure: Diploma in Information communication technology

Module 1

  • Introduction to Information comm. technology
  • Computer application 1
  • Communication skills
  • Structured programming
  • Computational mathematics
  • Binary codes
  • Operating systems

Module II

  • Research Project
  • System Analysis and design
  • Object oriented programming
  • Visual programming
  • Database management system

Module III

  • Data communication and networking
  • Management infirmation systems
  • Principles and practice management
  • Quantitative methods
  • Internet based programming
  • Business plan

Fee Structure:

Number of Terms: 6
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course: ksh 240000 ($ 2400)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Diploma in Human Resource Management is designed to equip the trainee with relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable him/her to manage human resources as a middle level Human Resource Manager in an organization. A graduate of this course will be able to work in a formal or self-employment. To achieve this objective, module units such as entrepreneurship, communication skills, life skills and information communication technology have been integrated.

Career Opportunities

  • Self-Employment
  • Human Resource Assistants
  • Administrators
  • HR officer
  • Human Resource Managers

Course Structure: Diploma in Human Resource Management

Module 1

  • Communication Skills
  • Life Skills
  • Information and Communication Technology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Accounting
  • Business Law
  • Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
  • Office Administration and Management

Module II

  • Quantitative Techniques
  • Human and Public Relations
  • Labour Law
  • Labour Economics
  • Human Resource Development
  • Principles and Practice of Marketing
  • Business Plan

Module III

  • Principles and Practice of Management (PPM)
  • Employee Relations
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Organizational Theory and Behaviour
  • Reward Management
  • Financial Management
  • Trade Project/Trade Project

Fee Structure:

Number of Terms: 6
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course: ksh 240000 ($ 2400)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

This course is intended to equip the trainee with knowledge, skill and attitudes that will enable him or her to perform administrative duties as a middle level manager in an organization. It further explores the methods adopted for robust project management including techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling complex projects and the role of computing in this process.

Career Opportunities

  • Self-Employment
  • Project Assistants
  • Project Officers
  • Monitoring and Evaluation officers
  • NGO oriented opportunities

Course Structure: Diploma in Project Management

Module 1

  • Communication Skills
  • Life Skills
  • Information Communication Technology
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Fundamentals Of Project Management
  • Financial Accounting
  • Resource Mobilization
  • Project Financing

Module II

  • Cost Accounting
  • Project Quality Management
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Project Procurement And Management
  • Project Monitoring And Evaluation
  • Project Management Information Systems
  • Business Plan

Module III

  • Operations Management
  • Fundamentals Of Strategic Management
  • Risk Management In Projects
  • Legal Issues In Project Management
  • Principles And Practices Of Management
  • Research Methods
  • Trade Project

Fee Structure:

Number of Terms: 6
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course: ksh 240000 ($ 2400)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Diploma in Supply Chain Management is designed to equip the trainee with relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable him or her to perform supply chain management as a middle level manager in an organisation. A graduate of this course will be able to work in a salaried or self-employment. To achieve this objective, module units such as entrepreneurship, communication skills, life skills, and information and communication technology have been integrated.

Career Opportunities

  • Self-Employment
  • Procurement Assistants
  • Procurement officers
  • Logistics Officers
  • Shipping oriented industries

Course Structure: Diploma in supply chain management

Module I

  • Communication skills
  • Life skills
  • Information Communication Technology (ICT)
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Supply Chain Management and Purchasing Principles
  • Warehousing Operations and Stock Control
  • Economics
  • Elements of law
  • Financial Accounting
  • Business Finance
  • Office Organisation

Module II

  • Public Procurement and Finance
  • Purchasing Management
  • Supplies Management
  • Cost Accounting
  • Principles and Practice of Marketing
  • Quantitative Techniques
  • Office Administration and Management
  • Business Plan

Module III

  • Purchasing and Supply Strategy
  • Operations Management
  • Project and Contract Management
  • International Purchasing
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Theory and Practice of Management
  • Research Methods

Fee Structure:

Number of Terms: 6
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course: ksh 240000 ($ 2400)

Certificate Courses

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Career Opportunities

  • Self-Employment
  • Office Administrators
  • Business Administrators
  • Receptionists
  • Personal Assistants

Course Structure: Certificate in Business Management

Module I

  • Communication skills
  • Life skills
  • Information communication technology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Fundamentals of management and environment
  • Business calculations and statistics
  • Commerce
  • Financial Accounting

Module II

  • Office Organization
  • Sales and marketing
  • Economics
  • Business Finance
  • Business Law
  • Human and Public Relations
  • Business Plan
  • Research Methods

Fee Structure:

Duration: 1 year
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course : khs 120000 ($1200)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Career Opportunities

  • Self-Employment
  • Financial Advisors/Consultants
  • Bank clerks
  • Financial Tellers

Course Structure: Certificate in Banking and Finance

Module I

  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • English
  • Stadi za mawasiliano kwa Kiswahili
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Economics
  • Office Organization
  • Introduction to law
  • Principles and practices of communication
  • Financial Accounting

Module II

  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • English
  • Stadi za mawasiliano kwa Kiswahili
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Principles and practices of communication
  • Financial Accounting
  • Business Finance
  • Elements of Banking
  • Foreign exchange and exchange control
  • Communication and reporting writing

Module III

  • Financial Accounting
  • Business Finance
  • Elements and Banking
  • Foreign Exchange and exchange
  • Communication and report writing

Fee Structure:

Duration: 1 year
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course : khs 120000 ($1200)

Trainee entering this course should meet any of
the following minimum requirements:

Career Opportunities

  • Self-Employment
  • I.T Technician
  • I.T Assistants
  • Network Administrators

Course Structure: Certificate in Information Communication Technology

Module 1

  • Communication skills
  • Life skills
  • Entrepreneurship skills
  • Introduction to ICT
  • Computer Application I
  • Mathematics
  • Operating systems
  • Basic Electronics
  • Industrial Attachment

Module II

  • Structured Programming
  • Computer maintenance and support
  • Computer application II
  • Business Plan
  • Research Methodology
  • Trade project

Fee Structure:

Duration: 1 year
Fee for Each Term: 40000khs (400USD)
Total fee for the course : khs 120000 ($1200)

Short Courses

Big Data

This will help you to master the principles and usage of big data components. One will be able to master open source big data architecture and component knowledge. You will be able to use the open source Hadoop and Huawei's big data product Fusion Insight HD to complete basic big data functions.

Course Content
  • Big Data Industry and Technological Trends
  • HDFS – Distributed File System Technology
  • MapReduce–Distributed Offline Batch Processing and Yarn–Resource Coordination
  • Spark2x – In-memory Distributed Computing Engine
  • HBase – Distributed NoSQL Database
  • Hive – Distributed Data Warehouse
  • Streaming – Distributed Stream Computing Engine
  • Flink – Stream Processing and Batch Processing Platform
  • Loader – Data Conversion
  • Flume–Massive Log Aggregation
  • Kafka – Distributed Message Subscription System
  • ZooKeeper – Distributed Coordination Service
  • FusionInsight HD Solution Overview

Course Duration: 3 weeks Program
Fees: sh. 20,000

AI

This Course will help you know how to perform mathematical programming using Python as well as master the basic principles of AI, general open-source AI frameworks. And programming knowledge, and have the ability to design, develop, and innovate AI products and solutions using technologies such as AI, machine learning, and deep learning.

Course Content
  • Overview of Artificial Intelligence
  • Python Programming Basics
  • Math Basics
  • TensorFlow Overview
  • Propaedeutics and Overview of Deep Learning
  • Huawei Cloud EI Overview
  • Python Programming Basics Experiment Guide
  • Math Basics Experiment Guide
  • TensorFlow Programming Basics Experiment Guide

Course Duration: 3 weeks Program
Fees: sh. 20,000

Cloud Computing

This course enables one to use virtualization technology to build cloud computing and perform basic operations of cloud computing.

Course Content
  • A Brief Introduction to Cloud computing
  • Introduction to Compute Virtualization
  • Network Basics for Cloud Computing
  • Storage Virtualization Basics
  • Introduction to Virtualization Features
  • Cloud Computing Trends

Course Duration: 3 weeks Program
Fees: sh. 20,000


Digital Marketing

This course provides students with the knowledge about business advantages of the digital marketing and its importance for marketing success; to develop a digital marketing plan as well as get basic knowledge of Google Analytics for measuring effects of digital marketing and getting insight of future trends that will affect the future development of the digital marketing.

The aim of the Digital Marketing Course is to provide students with the knowledge about business advantages of the digital marketing and its importance for marketing success; to develop a digital marketing plan; to make SWOT analysis; to define a target group; to get introduced to various digital channels, their advantages and ways of integration; how to integrate different digital media and create marketing content; how to optimize a Web site and SEO optimization; how to create Google AdWords campaigns; social media planning; to get basic knowledge of Google Analytics for measuring effects of digital marketing and getting insight of future trends that will affect the future development of the digital marketing.


Course Duration: Six Weeks
Fees: sh. 25, 000

  • Digital Marketing Strategy
  • Planning digital assets
  • Creating digital assets
  • Speaking to your audience
  • Direct marketing
  • Social media
  • Online advertising
  • Optimisation

Fee Structure:

Duration: 3 months (3 hrs per week)
Fee: KSH 25,000

  • Why project management?
  • The project life cycle
  • The work breakdown structure
  • Network based structure
  • Project planning structure
  • Dealing with increased complexity
  • Network diagrams
  • AOA model, PDM models, AON model
  • Network project structuring
  • The process of scheduling
  • Time analysis, Cost analysis
  • Resource analysis.

Fee Structure:

Duration: 3 months (3 hrs per week)
Fee: KSH 25,000

  • The operating environment
  • The organisation's resources
  • Organisational mission and objectives
  • The process of developing strategies
  • Mechanisms of strategy formation
  • Identify strategic position
  • Internal resource analysis
  • Analysing and managing corporate culture
  • Strategy selection
  • Methods of achieving strategic intent.
  • Mergers and acquisitions, organic growth, networks and alliances
  • Managing strategic change
  • Web politics of organisations

Fee Structure:

Duration: 3 months (3 hrs per week)
Fee: KSH 25,000

  • Managing People
  • External environment & framework of employment
  • People Management Skills
  • Getting the best from people
  • Motivation and emotional intelligence
  • Managing change, interviewing, negotiating
  • Handling conflict, gaining commitment
  • People Management Activities
  • Recruiting and Selecting People
  • Training and Developing
  • People Health, Safety & Welfare
  • People Management & the Law

Fee Structure:

Duration: 3 months (3 hrs per week)
Fee: KSH 25,000

ICDL MODULE STRUCTURE

IDCL is designed to build the critical digital skills of the modern workplace. It also helps one to develop advanced level skills for those with technology-reliant roles. It helps individuals to develop and certify their skills in the use of a computer. The course is divided into three:

ICDL MODULES
Basic Modules
# Unit Name Duration (hrs)
1 Computer Essentials 15
2 Online Essentials 15
3 Documents 20
4 Spreadsheets 20
5 Presentations 20
6 Information Literacy 15
    105
Intermediate Modules
# Unit Name Duration (hrs)
1 Cyber Security 15
2 Collaborations 15
3 Data Protection 15
4 Using Databases 20
5 Digital Marketing 20
    85
Advanced Modules
Path 1
# Unit Name Duration (hrs)
1 Presentation Advanced 30
2 Documents Advanced 30
3 2D Design 30
4 Image Editing 30
Path 2
# Unit Name Duration (hrs)
1 Project Planning 30
2 Management Spreadsheets 30
3 Data Analysis 30
4 Advanced Databases 30
5 ICT in Education 30
    120
    150

Basic ( 6 modules )

105 hrs– 2hrs / day x 5 days = 10 hrs / week = 40 hrs per month = Total 3 months @ ksh 30,000 /- ( exclusive of ksh 12, 000 ICDL Africa module registration fee + 3000 exam fee + 2000 admission fee)

Intermediate ( 4 modules )

85 hrs– 2hrs / day x 5days = 10 hrs / week = 40 hrs per month = Total 2.5 months @ ksh 35,000 /- ( exclusive of ksh 8,000 ICDL Africa module registration fee + 3000 exam fee + 2000 admission fee)


Advanced

Path 1 ( 4 modules )

120 hrs– 2hrs / day x 5 = 10 hrs / week = 40 hrs per month = Total 4 months @ ksh 45,000 /- ( exclusive of ksh 8,000 ICDL Africa module registration fee + 3000 exam fee+ 2000 Admission fee)

Path2 ( 5 modules )

150 hrs – 2hrs / day x 5 = 10 hrs / week = 40 hrs per month = Total 4 months @ ksh 45,000 /- ( exclusive of ksh 10,000 ICDL Africa module registration fee + 3000 exam fee + 2000 admission fee)

Professional Trainings

Duration (Hours) Course Objectives Target Group Outcomes
By the end of training the trainees will be able to:
2 Days /12 hours
  • Understand the importance of business communication.
  • Explain the importance of effective communication for the success of an organization in today’s business environment.
  • Deal effectively with different kinds of customers in different kinds of circumstances.
  • Identify stressors at the earliest and to mitigate the potential risk of conflicts induced by them.
  • Understand and practice how to provide constructive feedback.
  • Discuss the role of etiquette in the workplace and in social settings
  • Reflect on how communication in their department and organization could be improved.
  • Directors
  • Managers
  • Employees
  • Improved communication in the workplace
  • Good workplace etiquette
  • Improved customer service
Duration (Hours) Course Objectives Target Group Outcomes
By the end of training the trainees will be able to:
1 Day / 8 Hours
  • To be able to provide world class services to customers
  • To impact skills of customer management
  • Customer attraction skills
  • Customer retention skills
  • Directors
  • Managers
  • Employees
  • Customer retention
  • World class customer service
  • Improved customer service
  • Development of customer management skills
Duration (Hours) Course Objectives Target Group Outcomes
By the end of training the trainees will be able to:
2 Days / 16 Hours
  • Adopt your leadership style to suit the changing workplace situations
  • Recognise the difference between the Management and Leadership approach when getting things done
  • Learn and apply relevant tools to keep focus on key strategic objectives
  • Manage the changes more effectively using appropriate models for achieving results
  • Improve team performance
  • Directors
  • Managers
  • Employees
  • Better leaders
  • Ability to identify the leadership skill to us in various situations
  • Ability to manage change
  • Improved team management
Duration (Hours) Course Objectives Target Group Outcomes
By the end of training the trainees will be able to:
1 Day / 8 Hours
  • Learn to enjoy your work, you need to put your heart and mind to it
  • Put humour and fun at work to inject enthusiasm into daily efforts
  • Recognise the importance of establishing and maintaining good relationships
  • Recognise how trust can promote commitment, achieve personal and organisational success
  • Directors
  • Managers
  • Employees
  • Appreciation of one’s workplace
  • Improved trust in the work place
  • Happy employees
  • Good working relationships

BTEC

Amity, Kenya is part of a leading world-wide Amity Education Group which has over two decades of experience in the field of education. Amity Global Institute, Nairobi, Kenya is accredited a TVET /KNEC approved centre and we are located at UAP Old Mutual towers, 20th Floor, upper Hill Nairobi.

Today, Amity Education Group is the leading educational group in India, comprising of 10 Universities, 150+ Institutions, 25 Schools & Preschools with more than 170,000 Students and 6000 Faculties.  With our focus on internationalization we have established the largest number of overseas campuses located in London, Singapore, Dubai, Romania, Beijing, Nanjing, Abu Dhabi, South Africa, USA and Mauritius. Please also refer our group website: www.amity.edu and Amity Nairobi website http://www.amity.edu/nairobi.

BTEC stands for 'Business and Technology Education Council', which used to run the award, first introduced in 1984. BTECs are awarded by Pearson and are taken in more than 100 countries at all levels, from pre-GCSE to Degree equivalent.

Our BTEC Level 3, 4 and 5 provides specialist qualifications for learners who have a clear line towards their future career.

What do you learn?

BTEC Provides specialist work related learning across a range of vocational sector. It gives learners the knowledge, understanding and skills that they need to prepare for employment as well as career enhancement. This will involve:-

  • Core units that covers a broad understanding of knowledge and skills
  • An expansive list of optional units that focus on the specialization area.
  • Qualification pathways that reflect the specialist areas in different sectors

Learning BTEC provides a more practical, real world form of learning that will enhance effective understanding. It brings about practical examples form outside world, more research on particular concepts and interaction of professionals in the different fields being studied. Each study will involve learners presenting evidence based material on their studies that will be used to gauge how much they have been able to learn from the course

BTEC Courses are assessed internally. All the assessment is quality assured through a combination of internal verification carried out at the centre and external verification which is carried out annually to ensure consistency and standardization of all BTEC courses. Students work are assessed and graded as Pass, Merit or a Distinction. This ongoing assessment implies that students can be able to gauge and improve on their performance on a continuous basis.

Progress with BTEC

On successful completion of the BTEC qualification, learners can progress to or within their employment spheres or continue their learning within the same or related areas of study in higher education, Masters or even professional certifications or programmes.

Below is the Admission criteria for the BTEC program that we are currently launching. Both

No. Course Entry Requirements Duration Career Opportunities
1. BTEC INT Level 3 Diploma in (Business & Information Technology) Year 11 and above – 3 out of 4 passes of the units done
Minimum KCSE Grade D
2 Year                    
(6 semesters)
Human Resource Assistant
Admin Assistant
Accounts Assistant
Clerk
IT Technician
2. BTEC Higher National Certificate Level 4
( Business & Computing )
Year 12 – At least one Pass
Minimum KCSE Grade C-
At least a C plain in Maths and English
1 Year                
(3 Semesters)
Business/Computer Analyst
3. BTEC Higher National Diploma Level 5
( Business & Computing )
Year 13  - At least one Pass OR
Minimum KCSE Grade C+
At least a C plain in Maths and English
Or A pass in Level 4 HNC
2 Years                    (6 Semesters) HR officer
Accountant
IT Manager

offered under Business and Computing

BTEC stands for 'Business and Technology Education Council', which used to run the award, first introduced in 1984.

BTECs are awarded by Pearson London and are taken in more than 100 countries at all levels, from pre-GCSE to Degree equivalent.

We offer BTEC International Level 3, and BTEC Higher Nationals Level 4 HNC & Level 5 HND.

What do you learn

BTEC Provides specialist work related learning across a range of vocational subjects. It gives learners the knowledge, understanding and skills required for employability as well as well entrepreneurship.

Learning BTEC provides a more practical, real world form of learning that enhances effective indulgence to the concept.

Progression from BTEC

Upon successful completion of the BTEC qualification, learners can progress to or within their employment spheres or continue their learning within the same or related areas of studies.

Flow chart for the transition


Admission criteria for BTEC program

No. Course Entry Requirements Duration Career Opportunities
1. BTEC INT Level 3 Diploma in (Business & Information Technology) Year 11 and above – 3 out of 4 passes of the units done
Minimum KCSE Grade D
2 Year                    
(6 semesters)
Human Resource Assistant
Admin Assistant
Accounts Assistant
Clerk
IT Technician
2. BTEC Higher National Certificate Level 4
( Business & Computing )
Year 12 – At least one Pass
Minimum KCSE Grade C-
At least a C plain in Maths and English
1 Year                
(3 Semesters)
Business/Computer Analyst
3. BTEC Higher National Diploma Level 5
( Business & Computing )
Year 13  - At least one Pass OR
Minimum KCSE Grade C+
At least a C plain in Maths and English
Or A pass in Level 4 HNC
2 Years                    (6 Semesters) HR officer
Accountant
IT Manager

Intake: September 2020 intake Ongoing

Summary
  • BTECs are awarded by the Pearson Edexcel
  • They are vocational and work-related courses with International recognition
  • Non examination oriented
  • BTECs are flexible and students can start at any time of the year
  • Learner-centered approach
  • BTEC International ( Level 3 ) and Higher National Certificate Level 4 and Diploma Level 5  – Internationally-recognized higher education qualifications  that are equivalent to the first year of a university degree, providing progression to both university and employment.
  • An HNC is one level below an HND course and takes 1 year to complete while HNC is equivalent to studying one year at university
  • HND courses takes two years to complete.
FEE STRUCTURE
ADMISSION FEE
ITEM AMOUNT TERMS
Registration fee 1,000 Payable Once
Student ID and Access Card 1,000 Payable Once
Computer fee 2,000 Payable Once
Library fee 2,000 Payable Once
Activity fee 2,000 Payable Once
Caution fee 2,000 Payable Once (Refundable)
TOTAL ADMISSION FEES 10,000 PAYABLE ONCE
TERM FEE
ITEM AMOUNT TERMS
Level 3(International Diploma) 120,000 Jan, May, Sept
Level 4 (HNC) 150,000 Jan, May, Sept
Level 5 (HND) 150,000 Jan, May, Sept
ANNUAL EXAMINATION FEE
ITEM AMOUNT TERMS
Annual Exam Fee As per pearson fee Payable Annually