Access to Higher Education Diploma (Education)

02/09/2025
Format
26/06/2026
AAHEP314 (2025/2026)
Accrington & Rossendale College, Accrington & Rossendale College, Broad Oak Campus,Accrington,BB5 2AS
Fee for non-Lancashire Residents: £TBC
Fee for Lancashire Residents: £TBC

You may be entitled to a discount if you are in receipt of one or more benefits:

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If the above applies to you, you will be asked to provide evidence of this before you make a payment. You will find further instructions after you have completed the enrolment steps.

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You may be entitled to this course for free. There are two cases where you may qualify for this:

If you are currently unemployed, are looking for work and are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits you may qualify for a discount:

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If the above applies to you, you will be asked to provide evidence of this before you make a payment. You will find further instructions after you have completed the enrolment steps.

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Cant Enrol Reason

Please note that the College is only able to offer this course at the rates publicised on this website to those individuals aged 19+ or over on 31st August 2024 whose home address is in areas of England outside of the devolved authority areas of: Cambridge and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Greater London, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands and West of England. Where an individual resides outside of England or in one of the devolved areas then the College reserves the right to charge you for the delivery of the course at a rate of £11.25 per hour. This is in line with the College’s Fees Policy which is published on our websites.

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Overview of Course

Overview of Course

The Access to Higher Education (HE) Diploma is a Level 3 qualification that prepares 19+ students who are returning to education or who left school without the qualifications needed to progress to university.

Course Overview

What you will learn

What you will learn

You will learn a range of approaches to education and learning to gain an understand of the wider educational landscape. Learning will include educational theory, an understanding of human behaviour and how people learn alongside core topics linked to the national curriculum such as history and English for example.

What Will I Learn

Entry Requirements

Entry Requirements

L2 functional skills at a grade 2 in English or Maths, or GCSE English and Maths at a grade 4. For applicants wantinto to go into Primary School teaching GCSE English and Maths at a grade 4 or above and GCSE Science at a grade 4 or above (Biology can be taken alongside Access).

Entry Requirements

How Your Course Will Be Assessed

How Your Course Will Be Assessed

Learning is face to face in college 2.5 days per wekk

Assessment Methods

How will I know if I'm making progress?

How will I know if I'm making progress?

Learners have regular 121 support with tutors and feedback on assessments show progress made over time.

Progress

What coursework will I be expected to complete?

What coursework will I be expected to complete?

All access programmes are assessed via coursework submissions for each unit.

Required Coursework

Additional information

Additional information
Additional Information

Careers progression

Careers progression
Careers Progression
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The online application and enrolment process is really simple, once you have clicked the “APPLY" or "ENROL” button you will be redirected to the portal where you either log in or create an account (if you haven’t done so previously). We will then ask you to give us a couple of bits of information like address, mobile phone number ect and that’s it.
Once your applications has been made the next step will be for you to book yourself onto one of our interview evenings, depending on availability you might be able to do this straight away but otherwise we will get in contact to arrange when you come in for an interview.
At any point you can log back into the portal throughout the year, update information like your predicted GCSE grades, update contact and consent information and keep a live track of your application.
If you have any questions or run into any problems when using the portal please get in contact with us and we will help

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