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BTEC psychology and nursing

I want to do adult nursing at UOM, UOB or UON. Would I be able to do so with BTEC psychology or alevel psychology, health and social care diploma and sociology alevel?
Original post by abiiya.
I want to do adult nursing at UOM, UOB or UON. Would I be able to do so with BTEC psychology or alevel psychology, health and social care diploma and sociology alevel?


Not sure what unis you are referring to as many begin with M, B and N. :rolleyes: You need to check the Entry Requirements section on the course page of uni websites. If it's not clear, you can email the admissions department and ask if your combination is acceptable. Make sure you let them know what type of Btec you are studying - diploma, extended diploma, etc.
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Original post by normaw
Not sure what unis you are referring to as many begin with M, B and N. :rolleyes: You need to check the Entry Requirements section on the course page of uni websites. If it's not clear, you can email the admissions department and ask if your combination is acceptable. Make sure you let them know what type of Btec you are studying - diploma, extended diploma, etc.

University of Manchester, university of Birmingham and university of Nottingham. I’ve checked but I can’t find the answers, maybe I’m not checking good enough. But yeah basically I don’t know if they would accept BTEC psychology or alevel psychology as well as health and social certificate or the diploma or extended diploma
Original post by abiiya.
University of Manchester, university of Birmingham and university of Nottingham. I’ve checked but I can’t find the answers, maybe I’m not checking good enough. But yeah basically I don’t know if they would accept BTEC psychology or alevel psychology as well as health and social certificate or the diploma or extended diploma


Nottingham - they accept psych and sociology as an A level science, and a combination of A levels and Btec:

BBB at A level, including one of biology, chemistry, physics, physical education, psychology or sociology.
RQF Level 3 BTEC National Extended Diploma (in Health and Social Care, Applied Science or Sports and Exercise Science) - DDM.

RQF BTEC National Extended Diploma + A Level in Science - DDM + B
RQF Level 3 BTEC National Diploma (in Health and Social Care, Sports and Exercise Science or Applied Science - Biomedical, Physical or Analitical and Forensic) + A Level - DM + B
RQF Level 3 BTEC National Diploma + A Level (in science) - DM + B
RQF Level 3 BTEC National Extended Certificate (Applied Science, Health and Social Care, Applied Human Biology or Sport) + 2 A Levels - D + BC
RQF Level 3 BTEC National Extended Certificate + 2 A Levels - D + BC (B in science)
We can accept a mix of various BTEC qualifications

Manchester - similar but they only accept psych as a science A level (not sociology).

Birmingham - accept psych and sociology A levels, and accept BTEC.

If you can, take A level psych rather than BTEC.
Original post by abiiya.
I want to do adult nursing at UOM, UOB or UON. Would I be able to do so with BTEC psychology or alevel psychology, health and social care diploma and sociology alevel?

Absolutely yes
I am starting next week at UOM and studying child nursing and I did a level 3 health and social care extended diploma. I am not too sure about applied psychology for nursing but I would suggest just taking extended diploma for health and social care and that you shouldn’t bother yourself with additionally A-level because I knew people in my college that did health and social care as just a diploma and did 1 A-level like psychology and heavily regretted it wishing they had just done extended diploma. I would suggest speaking to career advisor in college for professional advise but I hope I was able to answer you question to the best of my abilities☺️.

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