Our Partnerships

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Our university courses are delivered in partnership with Staffordshire University, The Associated Merseyside Partnership SCITT, and Liverpool Hope University.

Students enrolled in the Foundation Degree in Education, BA (Hons) in Education Top-up, and PGCE/Certificate in Education Post 16 programmes receive qualifications from Staffordshire University and have access to various services, including:

  • Online library services
  • Online study guides
  • Career support
  • Diversity and inclusion support
  • Health and wellbeing support
  • Blackboard virtual learning tools
  • Fee payment arrangements
  • Policies and procedures

These services are in addition to the support offered at the college.

Students enrolled in the PGCE Primary programme receive qualifications from Liverpool Hope University and have access to:

  • A personal coach for support
  • NASBTT Education Support Service (wellbeing)
  • Online library services
  • Career support
  • Fee payment arrangements
  • Policies and procedures

The AMPSCITT team and teaching staff provide training, guidance, and support as students apply for their first teaching positions. These services complement the support provided by the college.

The Associated Merseyside Partnership SCITT (AMP SCITT) is a key collaborative partner and a leader in school-led teacher training. Their primary teacher training route offers trainees experience in a variety of partner primary schools.

Briony Thompson, SCITT PGCE Programme Lead at Liverpool Hope University comments

“I am absolutely delighted to welcome you to the start of your postgraduate journey studying with Liverpool Hope University in close partnership with AMP SCITT Alliance. The SCITT PGCE course has a rigorous selection procedure, so having successfully secured your place, we have the highest expectations of you as a trainee teacher. We look forward to working with you as you begin this new and exciting phase of your life as an aspirational and ambitious Hope teaching professional.

The Hope Teacher sees their career as a vocation, a way of changing the lives of children and the chance to make a real difference. They demonstrate the four key learning dispositions of resourcefulness, resilience, reflectiveness, and reciprocation as they strive for excellence in teaching and learning for all. The SCITT and university partnership and curriculums work symbiotically and are designed to enhance one another. Tutors have devised the programme carefully and collaboratively. LHU tutors are experts in the field of learning and teaching and skilfully draw on their experience and expertise to support you in understanding research theory into practice.

For the last four years we have taught the course through a successful blended model of online synchronous study using Zoom, the university’s online platform `(Moodle) and face to face delivery at Ashton Sixth Form College.”