I was awarded a Certificate of Education - do you offer honorary Bachelor of Education qualifications?
We are aware of the decision of some UK-based Higher Education institutes to award honorary Bachelor of Education to students who previously received a ‘Certificate of Education’ based on the teaching qualifications available at the time. Up until the early 1980s, The Certificate of Education qualification was a requirement to teach and was awarded as part of a three year training course.
The University of Birmingham’s position is that we will not be considering the award of a retroactive Bachelor of Education for alumni who were in receipt of a ‘Certificate of Education’.
Any decision to award of a ‘Certificate of Education’ will have been made against the University award regulations as they existed, at the time. Any reassessment of that award would have to be made against those same regulations, as our award frameworks have changed significantly since then and would therefore no longer be applicable. A Certificate of Education will have also been awarded prior to both FHEQ frameworks in 2001 and prior to the introduction of the National Credit Framework, meaning we would not be able to make a direct comparison of its equivalency to a modern Bachelor’s qualification.