Timetables and start dates

Dates marked Provisional may change while we confirm funding and partners. We will always confirm your timetable in writing before you start.

Two courses, each with a daytime or an evening and weekend option:

• Front-end Web Development (with React)
• Generative AI and Automation for Work

Standard cohorts (14 weeks, 126 hours)

Each 3-hour session includes a 10-minute break.

Also included:

• one careers and CV session of 1 hour, in week 10
• a mock interview in week 12
• the project showcase in week 14, where employers are invited

Practice on thelastdevstanding.com between classes is recommended, about 3–5 hours a week. It is not counted in the 126 hours.

January intensive cohort (11 weeks, 132 hours, daytime only)

Sample week (Web Development, daytime, week 6)

These sessions take place during working hours, so they count towards the apprentice’s off-the-job training. Apprentices join through their employer and our approved main-provider partner.

Lunch is 12:30–1:30pm and is not counted as training.

• Each module block is 16 weeks, which is 96 hours of off-the-job training with Fasttrack. The main provider delivers the rest of the programme and plans the total hours with the employer.
• Bank holidays. If a release day falls on a bank holiday, the session moves online to another working day that week, within working hours.
• Records. Attendance and off-the-job hours are recorded every session and shared with the main provider each month, through our learning platform, TeachCMS.
• Catching up. Missed sessions are caught up during working hours, never as unpaid evening work.

Sample apprentice day (Software Developer, Friday)

1. Stand-up: what you built at work this week
2. Teaching: React state and effects
3. Break
4. Guided build: fetching API data into components
5. Lunch (not counted)
6. Pair programming on the module project
7. Break
8. Code review and reflection log (evidence for the apprentice’s portfolio)
9. Finish

Funded Bootcamps

Applications usually close 2 weeks before the start date, or sooner if the cohort is full.

Apprentice module blocks (16 weeks each)

Apprentices can start their apprenticeship with the main provider at other times, and join our next module block. The January 2027 block depends on a partner agreement being signed in time.

These are our existing evening and weekend classes (unchanged), as shown on each course page today.