Course accreditation
Accreditation for courses is a service offered by universities, higher education colleges and other organisations. Some accreditation bodies can offer Higher Education credit along with their accreditation, others provide the legitimacy of independent scrutiny and certify that courses offered by their providers are of a certain standard. The College of Teachers’ qualifications are awarded under our Royal Charter.
Our qualifications' framework consists of a range of qualifications from certificates through to Master's level and are professional rather than academic in nature. This allows everyone involved in education to have their professional achievement, practice and expertise recognised and rewarded. The College of Teachers has Centres with accredited courses in the UK, Asia, Australia, South America and Europe.
The College's Centres offer College of Teachers’ qualifications at 3 levels:
Unqualified Practitioner
This means that someone undertaking a Certificate of Educational Studies (for example) who may not have undergraduate qualifications will receive the qualification in recognition of the professional qualification achieved but will receive no HE credit alongside it.
Practitioner and Master Practitioner (postgraduate)
An individual holding a postgraduate qualification (such as a teacher with QTS) could undertake a Certificate of Educational Studies and receive HE credit to sit alongside it. This is course-dependent and is checked through the relevant course entry requirements which normally lock a course into one of the three bands.
