Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Health and Community Care
Overview
This course incorporates a variety of modules to meet the needs of a wide range of healthcare environments. Emphasis is placed on self-directed and lifelong learning, and you will be given one-to-one support to plan and organise a personalised programme of study.
You will have the opportunity to consider your area of practice in significant depth and further develop your critical analysis and reasoning skills. With our part-time option, you will have the flexibility to study at your own pace to fit your learning around your work and personal commitments.
Research Excellence Framework 2014
Research Excellence Framework 2014: 20% of our research in the Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care unit is world leading or internationally excellent.
We've a wide variety of modules for you to choose from, including from other postgraduate courses such as MSc Advanced Practice.
We understand that full-time study does not suit everyone. That’s why we offer courses which give you the opportunity to decide where, when and how you can get involved in learning. Studying a distance learning course offers the convenience and flexibility to make education work for you. Whether you’d like to fit your studies around childcare, develop your skills while working or, quite simply, want to learn from the comfort of your own home, we can help you gain a qualification at a time and pace that suits your lifestyle.
Like our students on campus, you will have the same excellent teaching and learning resources, however you’ll find these online instead of in a lecture theatre. Not only are all the modules taught online, but you will also have access to an online community and more than 140,000 books and journals in our online library.
To study this course, you will require broadband internet connection with a speed of 2mbps and working speakers. You will need Windows 7 / Mac OSX 10.8 or above and have access to Chrome v63 or higher (recommended), Edge v42+, Firefox v57+ or Safari v6+. Java and Adobe Acrobat Reader will need to be enabled and you will need a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768.
Visit our distance learning guide for a complete list of technical requirements.
Entry Requirements
Applicants should either have at least a second class honours degree in the cognate subjects of Care, including nursing, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech & language therapy, dietetics, paramedic practice or radiography, or at least a second class honours degree in a non-cognate subject supported by evidence of an aptitude for the subject applied for. Applicants who do not meet this academic requirement are advised to undertake the Professional Profile Development module in order to apply for recognition of prior (experiential) learning. Details of the module can be found at this link
Applicants who successfully completed a PG Diploma Community Specialist Practitioner or PG Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course at Leeds Beckett in the last five years will be considered for advanced entry and will only need to complete a further 60 level 7 credit points for the dissertation module. Applicants who successfully completed their PG Diploma course more than five years ago or completed a similar PG Diploma course at another university can apply for credit transfer through the Recognition of Prior Learning route.
All students will normally be working, in paid or unpaid employment, within health and/or community care as students need to be able to reflect on their experience and relate theory with practice. All applicants should be able to evidence recent professional development/study; of working with different patient/client groups; awareness of current policies affecting the sector and potential implications for service delivery.International Applicants will be interviewed by telephone/skype to discuss this requirement with a member of the course team.
All applications should be supported by a reference, either academic or professional; a template can be accessed at this link.
All applicants should satisfy our University English language requirements, please access further details at this link.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
We may use selection criteria based on your personal attributes; experience and/or commitment to the area of study. This information will be derived from your personal statement and reference and will only be used if you have met the general entry requirements.
IELTS:
IELTS 6.0 with no skills below 6.0. The University provides excellent support for any applicant who may be required to undertake additional English language courses.
Mature Applicants:
Our University welcomes applications from mature applicants who demonstrate academic potential. All students will be considered through the contextual admissions policy described above. If you do not meet the requirements through the contextual admissions policy, we may still be able to make you an offer if you have recent relevant work experience through our ‘Recognition of Prior Learning’ policy. Please ensure that you list both your qualifications and any relevant work experience in your application so that we can consider you under both schemes where applicable..
All applicants to our University are required to meet our standard English language requirement of GCSE grade C or equivalent, for example we accept some Functional Skills Tests.
Applicants should either have at least a second class honours degree in the cognate subjects of Care, including nursing, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech & language therapy, dietetics, paramedic practice or radiography, or at least a second class honours degree in a non-cognate subject supported by evidence of an aptitude for the subject applied for. Applicants who do not meet this academic requirement are advised to undertake the Professional Profile Development module in order to apply for recognition of prior (experiential) learning. Details of the module can be found at this link
Applicants who successfully completed a PG Diploma Community Specialist Practitioner or PG Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course at Leeds Beckett in the last five years will be considered for advanced entry and will only need to complete a further 60 level 7 credit points for the dissertation module. Applicants who successfully completed their PG Diploma course more than five years ago or completed a similar PG Diploma course at another university can apply for credit transfer through the Recognition of Prior Learning route.
All students will normally be working, in paid or unpaid employment, within health and/or community care as students need to be able to reflect on their experience and relate theory with practice. All applicants should be able to evidence recent professional development/study; of working with different patient/client groups; awareness of current policies affecting the sector and potential implications for service delivery.International Applicants will be interviewed by telephone/skype to discuss this requirement with a member of the course team.
All applications should be supported by a reference, either academic or professional; a template can be accessed at this link.
All applicants should satisfy our University English language requirements, please access further details at this link.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
We may use selection criteria based on your personal attributes; experience and/or commitment to the area of study. This information will be derived from your personal statement and reference and will only be used if you have met the general entry requirements.
IELTS:
IELTS 6.0 with no skills below 6.0. The University provides excellent support for any applicant who may be required to undertake additional English language courses.
ADDITIONAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Verify your qualifications
If you are an international student, we can help you to compare and verify your qualifications. Please contact our International Office on +44 (0)113 812 1111 09.00 to 17.00 Mon-Thurs / 09.00 to 16.30 Fri GMT or email internationaloffice@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.Need to improve your English Language skills?
Don't worry if you don't have the level of English required for your chosen course. We offer a wide range of courses which have been designed to help you to improve your qualifications and English language ability, most of which are accredited by the British Council. Check your English and find out more about our English courses.More questions?
No matter what your questions, we are here to answer them, visit our International website to get more information and find out about our online open days.Careers
Careers
MSc Health & Community Care
“I have worked for 30 years, and I have been surprised about the difference studying has made. My course allows me to take a new perspective on my role and question how and why I do things, which is making a positive difference to my clients and me.
Teaching and learning
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for AHPs (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- The following option modules are delivered by the social work group and are indicative:
- Advanced Practice Safeguarding Children & Young People
- Legal & Policy Context of Safeguarding Adults
- Practice Development in Social Work
- Practice of Best Interests Assessments
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for AHPs (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- The following option modules are delivered by the social work group and are indicative:
- Advanced Practice Safeguarding Children & Young People
- Legal & Policy Context of Safeguarding Adults
- Practice Development in Social Work
- Practice of Best Interests Assessments
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for AHPs (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- The following option modules are delivered by the social work group and are indicative:
- Advanced Practice Safeguarding Children & Young People
- Legal & Policy Context of Safeguarding Adults
- Practice Development in Social Work
- Practice of Best Interests Assessments
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for AHPs (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- The following option modules are delivered by the social work group and are indicative:
- Advanced Practice Safeguarding Children & Young People
- Legal & Policy Context of Safeguarding Adults
- Practice Development in Social Work
- Practice of Best Interests Assessments
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professions (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition & Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professions (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition & Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professions (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition & Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professions (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition & Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for AHPs (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- The following option modules are delivered by the social work group and are indicative:
- Advanced Practice Safeguarding Children & Young People
- Legal & Policy Context of Safeguarding Adults
- Practice Development in Social Work
- Practice of Best Interests Assessments
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for AHPs (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- The following option modules are delivered by the social work group and are indicative:
- Advanced Practice Safeguarding Children & Young People
- Legal & Policy Context of Safeguarding Adults
- Practice Development in Social Work
- Practice of Best Interests Assessments
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professions (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition & Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
- Understanding Social Research & Evaluation
Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, allowing you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice-based problems.
- Research in Practice: Dissertation
Your opportunity to produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Assessment & Management of Complex Health Conditions
- Building Community Capacity in Public Health
- Care of the Child in the Emergency Department
- Evidencing Professional Learning (20 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Evidencing Professional Learning (40 credits)
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development in a specific area of practice that you have identified.
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Legal & Ethical Practice in Health & Community Care
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (NMC)
If you are a registered health professional, this module will allow you to achieve the required legal and professional standards to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
- Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professions (HCPC)
- Professional Portfolio Development in the Context of Health & Community Care
Critically reflect on your past experience, identifying future learning needs in the context of your role in shaping current health and social care policy and practice.
- Recognition & Management of the Acutely Ill Adult Patient
- Transforming Professional Practice
Fees & funding
The tuition fee for the year for students entering in 2020/21 is £6500. The amount you will pay may increase each year to take into account the effects of inflation.
Additional course costs
Tuition fees
Your tuition fees cover the cost of registration, tuition, academic supervision, assessments and examinations. The following is also included in the cost of your course:
- 24/7 Library and student IT support
- Free wifi via eduroam
- Skills workshops and resources
- Library membership, giving access to more than 500,000 printed, multimedia and digital resources
- Access to software, including five free copies of Microsoft Office 365 to install on your PC, laptop and MAC, and access to free high-end software via the Leeds Beckett remote app
- Loan of high-end media equipment to support your studies
As a student on this course, access to the following will also be included in your tuition fees:
- Use of facilities, including our Clinical Skills Suite with specialist equipment in purpose-built rooms enabling a variety of sessions to be carried out in a suitable and safe environment
Other study-related expenses to consider: materials that you will need to complete your course such as books (the library stocks books from your module reading list and can order books from other locations for you if a copy isn’t available but you may wish to purchase copies for yourself); placement costs (these may include travel expenses and living costs); student visas (international students only); printing, photocopying and stationery (you will need to pay for multiple copies of your dissertation or final project to be printed and bound); events associated with your course such as field trips; study abroad opportunities (travel costs and accommodation, visas and immunisations). Other costs could include academic conferences (travel costs) and professional-body membership (where applicable). The costs you will need to cover for graduation will include gown hire and guest tickets, and optional extras such as professional photography.
You may prefer to have your own mobile phone/tablet (to access university online services) but you can book and borrow AV equipment through the media equipment service accessed online via the student hub and located in the library at each campus. Equipment includes: such as 360 Cameras, iPads, GoPros, MacBooks, portable data projectors, portable projection screens, flipchart stands, remote presenters, digital cameras and camcorders, SLR cameras, speakers, microphones, headphones, headsets, tripods, digital audio recorders and PC/laptops (a laptop loans service is provided on campus in social learning spaces and in the library on both campuses). Student laptops are also available from the laptop lockers located on the ground floor of the libraries.
This list is not exhaustive and costs will vary depending on the choices you make during your course. Any rental, travel or living costs are also in addition to your course fees.
The tuition fee for the year for students entering in 2020/21 is £14000. The amount you will pay is fixed at this level for each year of your course.
Additional course costs
Tuition fees
Your tuition fees cover the cost of registration, tuition, academic supervision, assessments and examinations. The following is also included in the cost of your course:
- 24/7 Library and student IT support
- Free wifi via eduroam
- Skills workshops and resources
- Library membership, giving access to more than 500,000 printed, multimedia and digital resources
- Access to software, including five free copies of Microsoft Office 365 to install on your PC, laptop and MAC, and access to free high-end software via the Leeds Beckett remote app
- Loan of high-end media equipment to support your studies
As a student on this course, access to the following will also be included in your tuition fees:
- Use of facilities, including our Clinical Skills Suite with specialist equipment in purpose-built rooms enabling a variety of sessions to be carried out in a suitable and safe environment
Other study-related expenses to consider: materials that you will need to complete your course such as books (the library stocks books from your module reading list and can order books from other locations for you if a copy isn’t available but you may wish to purchase copies for yourself); placement costs (these may include travel expenses and living costs); student visas (international students only); printing, photocopying and stationery (you will need to pay for multiple copies of your dissertation or final project to be printed and bound); events associated with your course such as field trips; study abroad opportunities (travel costs and accommodation, visas and immunisations). Other costs could include academic conferences (travel costs) and professional-body membership (where applicable). The costs you will need to cover for graduation will include gown hire and guest tickets, and optional extras such as professional photography.
You may prefer to have your own mobile phone/tablet (to access university online services) but you can book and borrow AV equipment through the media equipment service accessed online via the student hub and located in the library at each campus. Equipment includes: such as 360 Cameras, iPads, GoPros, MacBooks, portable data projectors, portable projection screens, flipchart stands, remote presenters, digital cameras and camcorders, SLR cameras, speakers, microphones, headphones, headsets, tripods, digital audio recorders and PC/laptops (a laptop loans service is provided on campus in social learning spaces and in the library on both campuses). Student laptops are also available from the laptop lockers located on the ground floor of the libraries.
This list is not exhaustive and costs will vary depending on the choices you make during your course. Any rental, travel or living costs are also in addition to your course fees.
Additional information
For further information on financing your studies or information about whether you may qualify for one of our bursaries and scholarships, follow the links below:
Facilities
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LibraryOur Library is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year, providing you with access to specialist books and journals, learning spaces, computers, multimedia facilities and media equipment hire. Tens of thousands of our Library's digital resources, including ebooks, ejournals and databases, can be accessed online at a time and place to suit you.
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Once you've decided what course to study, here is a step-by-step guide of what to do next.
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1EXPLOREExplore your full range of options on our Online Prospectus at courses.leedsbeckett.ac.uk.
Call us on +44(0)113 812 3113 or email admissionsenquiries@leedsbeckett.ac.uk if you have any questions. International students can phone +44(0)113 812 1111 or email internationaloffice@leedsbeckett.ac.uk. -
2POSTGRADUATE AND RESEARCH OPEN DAYVisit us for a Postgraduate and Research Open Day to speak to teaching staff and students, see our facilities and find out more about your chosen course.
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3APPLY
Apply directly to us via our online application site *.
* Exceptions to this are:
- Teacher Training (PGCE & EYTS)
- PG Dip Legal Practice PG Dip Law
- Chartered Institute of PR (CIPR): Advanced Certificate & Advanced Diploma
- MA Social Work
- MA Art Psychotherapy
- PGCert/PGDip/MA Play Therapy
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4YOUR OFFERReceive your offer - remember, the sooner you apply the sooner an offer can be made. Please note that certain courses do have set application deadlines so you should check before applying. Some courses may require you to attend an interview or submit a portfolio before an offer can be made.
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5SEND US YOUR RESULTSIf we make you a conditional offer, send us your results as soon as you have these so we can confirm your place.
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6ACCOMMODATIONApply for our university accommodation if you need it.
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7INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSCheck visa regulations and apply for your CAS number if necessary.
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8FEES & FUNDINGDiscover more about your funding options and set up your fee payments.
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9ONLINE REGISTRATION & ENROLMENTReceive your online registration and enrolment information.
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10WELCOME WEEKAttend Welcome Week and begin your course.
