If you don’t have the grades you need to apply for university, an Access to HE Diploma will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need.
If you’d love to start a career as a social worker, the level 3 Access to Higher Education Diploma – Social Work is designed to prepare you to study for a Social Work degree.
You’ll learn core knowledge that will prepare you for a degree including safeguarding, mental health, and the effects of poverty on health.
This online course has flexible start dates throughout the year and will take up to 1 year to complete.
The flexibility of the course allows you to learn at your own pace.
During this course, you will study the following:
An Access to HE Diploma is made up of units that offer 45 graded credits and 15 ungraded credits.
You will complete a number of assignments, including formal written work, as part of your modules that will form your electronic portfolio.
Applicants must have achieved English and Maths GCSEs at grade A-C (or grade 9-4), or equivalent).
The course fee is £5,040.
If you are aged 19 or over, you may be able to apply for an Advanced Learner Loan to cover your course fees. An Advanced Learner Loan enables you to study now, pay later. Loan eligibility is not dependent on income or employment status and there is no credit check. Loan repayments do not start until you have finished your course and earn over £25,000 per year. For more information on the Advanced Learner Loan, please visit our dedicated pages.
This course is specifically designed to put you on the pathway to study a degree in Social Work. You’ll learn core knowledge that will prepare you for your degree including safeguarding, mental health, and the effects of poverty on health.
After successfully completing this course, you could progress onto university to study a range of social work degrees.
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