• Face to face
• Blended learning
• Work placements would also be beneficial.

Written questions and answer, reports, exam, SWOT analysis, projects, worksheets, case studies, annotated diagram, presentation, poster, self-reflection. It is recommended that units which have a significant sized report or essay are delivered later in the course to allow learners to develop their academic writing skills.

• BSc (Hons) Nursing
• BSc Hons Nursing (Mental Health)
• BSc Hons Nursing (Child)
• Degree Apprenticeships Nursing
• BSc (Hons) Health Studies

Learners will require a pass in a science alongside Maths and English at GCSE level 2 to progress onto a degree course.

Gateway Qualifications is delighted to have developed partnership agreements with universities to provide enhanced progression opportunities for Access to HE students and professional development and masterclasses for staff at approved providers.

Gateway Qualifications has a long and successful history of widening participation and supporting students to achieve their life goals, whatever their circumstances.

In order to strengthen this priority, Gateway Qualifications has partnered with the University of East London (UEL) and the University of Suffolk (UoS) to offer progression routes and benefits for students to achieve their ambition of a higher education place in preparation for their chosen career.

We have collaborated with each university individually to develop a range of benefits for both students registered on a Gateway Qualifications Access to HE Diploma and the academic staff delivering these diplomas in order that the students’ journeys to their career of choice are fully supported and achievable.

The agreements offer a significant range of benefits for eligible students who apply to study at the University of East London or University of Suffolk:

· Guaranteed offer or interview on an undergraduate degree programme (as set out in the subject map)

· Access to independent information, advice and guidance services, bespoke workshops

· Curriculum enrichment opportunities during their Access to HE courses

· Access to transition support events prior to starting their degree

For more information visit: Who we work with

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

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

• 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.

1. Adults who, because of social, educational or individual circumstances may have achieved few, if any, prior qualifications and wish to progress to HE
2. Adults who have gone straight into industry (perhaps following apprenticeship routes) who wish to progress to HE.

Learners who have followed these routes may not have come from a care background, so they may need to refresh/develop their skills in specific areas as well as learning more about subjects in which they have an interest. If the learner has gone straight into employment, they may not have studied at Level 3 and so this Access Diploma will help them to build on existing skills and provide a good grounding for further academic study.

The Diploma will provide them with underpinning skills to support academic study and provide a level 3 qualification linked to their proposed HE study. A broad range of skills related to care will be acquired, whilst the underpinning skills within the ungraded units will ensure that the learner is fully prepared for progression onto relevant degrees.

The units will allow the learners to keep their options open until they have fully decided on their preferred route at degree level. The ungraded units have been chosen to support both progression into higher education and also to allow the learners to develop skills relevant to the subject area e.g. speaking and listening skills which are highly relevant to the role of the nursing which is a patient facing role within the National Health Service.