This APU Diploma in Information and Communication Technology is specifically designed to provide: Coverage of the academic aspect as well as the vocational aspect of the wide area of Computing and Information and Communications Technology. Students with the skills to prepare them for careers in the ICT environment with emphasis on solutions design, software development and technology infrastructure support. Students with academic and professional skills to develop solutions requiring the application of technology in a business and organisational context, so as to facilitate response to continuous future changes in technology and industry practices. Students with critical, independent and cooperative learning skills so as to facilitate responses to continuous future changes in industry practices.