Students studying the Foundation Degree in Internet and Business Technologies at York College have created a website for DBS York Ltd, a television repair company at Clifton Moor, as part of a module on their higher education course.

Richard Hind, Tutor of IT and Computing at York College, comments: "The Professional Project module is the culmination of two years study on the Foundation Degree in Internet and Business Technologies and draws together the knowledge and skills the students have gained during their studies. It is an opportunity for them to design, build, deliver and above all, manage a real project for a business client using industry standard tools and techniques such as Microsoft Project and PRINCE2. We are very proud of the quality of the projects that our students deliver and would welcome small IT projects from local organisations, which could run from January to May 2012."

David Binelli, Owner and Director of DBS Ltd, comments: "We made initial contact with York College via a link with the Chamber of Commerce. We wanted to produce a website and the Foundation Degree students were able to create one for us as an ongoing project. The website evolved through discussions with the students, which provided an excellent learning experience for them, and we are delighted with the end result. We intend to maintain a link with the College so that we can develop the website further, for instance we are talking about producing a phone App in the future."

Other projects completed by two further groups on the Foundation Degree are an in-house training system for Great Rail Journeys in York and a virtual learning environment system at Millthorpe School.