Applying with HN qualifications Year 1 entry

120 SCQF level 7 credits in a relevant subject such as:

• HNC Childhood Practice
• HNC Child Care & Education
• HNC Early Education & Childcare
• SNNEB
• relevant qualifications accepted by the Scottish Social Services Council as suitable for registration at practitioner level plus a learning portfolio, if required, matching competencies to the Standard for Childhood Practice

Relevant HND from a college in Scotland or equivalent

• Home Economics: the most suitable HNDs include both a practical element and a theoretical side in food or in fashion, such as HND Fashion & Textile Technology or HND Professional Cookery
• Technological Education: the most suitable HNDs are in engineering and include Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Jewellery Design andManufacture, CAD, Environmental, Aerospace, Naval, Architecture, Marine, and Product Design with Engineering (but not Product Design alone)

Application is to a participating college in the first instance. You'll enter college at Diploma of Higher Education level, having first studied a relevant HNC such as:

• Early Education and Childcare or Childhood Practice
• Health Care or Care and Administrative Practice
• Social Care or Social Services
• Additional Support Needs or Supporting Learning Needs
• Occupational Therapy Support

HNC Early Education & Childcare/Childhood Practice: A in Graded Unit, plus two Highers at B (including English) and Mathematics National 5 B, or equivalent

HNC Social Sciences: A in Graded Unit; Maths National 5 B, or equivalent

Other HNC or HND qualifications will be considered in accordance with the strength of the overall application.

Preferred relevant HNC subjects are:

• Social Services
• Social Sciences
• Childhood Practice
• Counselling, Working with Communities
• Learning & Development
• Law
• Legal Services

(A in Graded Unit)

Social Sciences: A in Graded Unit; Higher Spanish B; Maths National 5 B, or equivalent

All applicants must hold a full Mathematics qualification at the minimum of SCQF Level 5, such as:

• National 5/Intermediate 2 at C
• Credit Standard Grade in Mathematics/Applications of Mathematics

• HND Engineering including B in Maths for Engineering 2
• For applicants who not have a Maths or Physics qualification, attendance at Strathclyde's Summer School may be a condition