Study With Us

This course offers exciting opportunities for a range of degrees and subsequent careers in the health sector such as nursing, midwifery or other NHS related degree courses.

Our students often find that health education and social care degrees offer the best opportunity to work in the community and on successful completion of this course, you can automatically progress on to the Foundation Degree in Health and Wellbeing at Wakefield College. Choosing this course may help you gain the voluntary or professional experience in a health related environment which must be achieved prior to your UCAS application being sent in the following autumn term. 

Study will involve presentations, practical activities, written assignments and discussions.

You will study compulsory units in:

• Study Skills
• Healthcare Research Methods
• Psycho-Social aspects of Health
• Core Biology
• Human Biology
• Safeguarding
• Assistive Technologies

Assessment takes place through course assignments and examinations. Each six or three credit unit at Level 3 will be graded Pass, Merit or Distinction. Healthcare Research Methods and Study Skills are ungraded units but you must achieve a pass in these units to gain the Access to HE Diploma qualification.

GCSEs at Grade 9 - 4 in English Language and either Maths or Science.

If you have not achieved a GCSE Maths qualification you will be required to complete this qualification alongside your Access course.

2024/25 fees:

£TBC

The majority of students progress to a degree courses, including the competitively-priced Higher Education programmes offered at Wakefield College. Students have progressed to a variety of universities, including Leeds, Leeds Trinity, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, York, Bradford, Hull and Lancaster.