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Part Time
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Two Years
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Boston
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September 2025
Part Time
Two Years
Boston
September 2025
The Part Time Level 3 Professional Cookery Patisserie and Confectionery NVQ Diploma is designed to prepare you for a job in a high-class kitchen or to update your current skills to develop and improve your own establishment’s standards.
You will specialise in patisserie and confectionery, a specialist bakery and confectionery qualification that has no kitchen content.
To achieve the Level 3 Professional Cookery Patisserie and Confectionery NVQ Diploma you must complete a minimum of 46 credits in total.
17 credits are compulsory and the remaining 29 can be taken from optional units of your choice.
The following are compulsory units:
The rest of your credits can be obtained from a choice of the following optional units:
In addition to your course, you may also study either Functional Skills or GCSE English and Maths, dependent on your current GCSE grade.
The Professional Cookery Patisserie and Confectionery NVQ Diploma will take you two years to complete, starting September 2024.
You will also work every Thursday evening in the College's restaurant.
The Professional Cookery Patisserie and Confectionery NVQ Diploma is free, if you are under the age of 19 on 31 August of the year you start the course.
If you are aged 19+, this course will cost £2583.
If you are aged 19-23, fee remission may apply depending on personal circumstances, please enquire with the Registry Department for further information on 01205 365701 or email your query to fees@boston.ac.uk.
Aged 19+?
If you are aged 19 years or over on the 1st day of your course, you may qualify for an Advanced Learner Loan to help with your College fees. If you progress to employment you won't have to pay anything back until you’re earning £25,000 per year. Your household income isn't taken into account and there's no credit check. Your eligibility depends on your course, nationality, and age. To find out more contact the College Information Line on 01205 313218.
Fees may vary depending on personal circumstances, please enquire for further information.
Please note that all fees are subject to change.
Assessment on the Professional Cookery Patisserie and Confectionery NVQ Diploma is continual and supported by regular progress briefings and action planning.
Each Unit has a formal theory test in which the pass mark is 60%
You will also be assessed by questions either oral or written.
These assessments will help you to complete the portfolio, which you will need to gain the qualification.
You will also study key skills in communication, IT and application of number.
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