02 Mar 2021
Key Facts
Why choose this qualification?
This Diploma is currently being revalidated for 2018/19. Should you wish to offer this Diploma or would like further information please contact our Business Development Team on 01206 911240 or on DevelopmentGroup@gatewayqualifications.org.uk.
Within the Access to Higher Education Diploma in Psychology and Sociology, learners will cover a range of disciplines such as;
- Law and Crime
- Poverty and Inequality
- Psychology
- Research
- Social Behaviour
- Sociology
- The Media
Following successful completion of this Diploma, learners will be able to progress to University to study a number of pathways, including psychology, sociology, social sciences, social studies and others.
Rules of Combination
The Access to HE Diploma is a nationally recognised qualification with common requirements relating to the description of student achievement.
The Diploma is a credit-based, graded qualification, and requirements relate to both the award of credit and to the award of grades. Details of the credit framework and requirements relating to the award of credit are provided, with the general specifications for the qualification, in The Access to Higher Education Diploma and credit specifications.
Individual named Diplomas are identified by separate titles and are validated at local level by Access Validating Agencies (AVAs).
The Diploma has its own approved set of units of assessment, governed by rules of combination, which are appropriate to the subject of the Diploma. Common grading requirements apply to all individual Diplomas.
Units
Students must achieve all credits from this group.
Introduction to Sociology
Students must achieve all credits from this group.
Research Project - Methodology
Students must achieve all credits from this group.
Examination Skills
Introduction to Psychology
Preparation for Higher Education
Study Skills - Academic Skills
Students must achieve 27 credits from this group.
Child Development
Crime and Deviance
Health Psychology
Household and Family Structures
Individual Differences
Sociology of Health
The Psychology of Offender Profiling
Understanding Counselling Theories
Funding information
There are now two main sources for funding information, a straightforward ESFA Qualification Search and the more detailed Find a Learning Aim website.
The new Find a learning aim (FALA) service provides a search tool that you can use to check the funding status of any qualification, framework, unit, standard or T Level:
View this qualification on the ESFA’s Find a learning aim website
The Education and Skills Funding Agency search provides funding information on qualifications. It does not provide funding information for units, non-regulated activity and work placements, for this information please use Find a learning aim (FALA).
View this qualification on the ESFA Qualification Funding Search
How to find a learning aim
If you’re not sure how to use the new find a learning aim website, we’ve created a handy walkthrough to help you:
How to Use: Find a learning Aim
Additional funding information for Access to HE
- Access to HE is eligible for funding as part of the legal entitlement offer.
- Access to HE is eligible for funding via Advanced Learner Loans and appears on the Advanced Learner Loans catalogues published by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).
- Access to HE Diplomas are designed for adult learners aged 19+ and the ESFA only funds young people on these programmes by exception, as stated in paragraph 149, page 39 of the Funding guidance for young people 2020 to 2021.
We have done our best to collate and summarise the key information, and wherever possible we alert our providers to changes in funding policy.
This funding information is provided in good faith and it is always advisable to check directly with the funding agencies before committing to delivery.
The following support materials will help you to deliver this qualification.