Education - Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)
PGDip
Expected move to Headington Campus for the start of the 2025/26 academic year
Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026
Part time: 2 years
Location: Harcourt Hill
Department(s): School of the Built Environment, School of Education, Humanities and Languages
Overview
This course is for those who work with children with literacy difficulties in primary and secondary schools. It is ideal for experienced teachers and graduate teaching assistants.
You will have the opportunity to:
- network with other practitioners
- access information about local jobs specialising in work in the sector.
This course is pending accreditation by the British Dyslexia Association. It includes the supervised teaching and assessment work that would meet the criteria for Accredited Teacher/Practitioner Status (ATS/APS) after Year 1 and Associate Membership of the BDA (AMBDA) after Year 2. If accredited, you’ll also meet the criteria for an Assessment Practicing Certificate (APC) after Year 2, which will allow you to assess children for dyslexia. If accredited, you can organise this through the course for an additional administration fee to the BDA.
Course details
Study modules
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Research
The School of Education, Humanities and Languages is a thriving centre for educational research and teacher professional development.
Rachael Falkner, co-tutor on the course, is researching children’s perspectives on writing and their use of written feedback.
We hold two major research conferences each year - the School of Education Research Conference and the EdD Colloquium. All students are invited to attend our annual Research
Seminar Series (which attracts both internal and external speakers).
The School’s six research groups exist to encourage engagement in research, publication, conference presentations, seminars and workshops:
- Inclusion and Wellbeing
- Policy, Partnership and Leadership
- STEAM pedagogy and learning
- Humanistic Perspectives on Education
- Early Years
- Applied Linguistics
Careers
The course meets the criteria for the taught elements of Associate Membership to the British Dyslexia Association (AMBDA), if accredited.
The PGDip enables teachers to assess people for exam concessions and the AMBDA qualification is the leading quality standard for specialist work in the field.
Related courses
Entry requirements
This course is not available to students classed as International for fees purposes.
Specific entry requirements
A degree in a relevant subject area and experience of working with children with literacy difficulties.
Please contact the Programme Administrator to register your interest.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English language requirements
Please see the University's standard English language requirements.
Pathways courses for EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for your postgraduate course and also familiarise you with university life in the UK.
Take a Pre-Master's course to develop your subject knowledge, study skills and academic language level in preparation for your master's course.
If you need to improve your English language, we offer pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements of your chosen master’s course.
Credit transfer
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
How to apply
Application process
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year, your fees will increase each year.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Optional costs
Additional costs | Amount (£) |
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It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. |
From £30 |
You may choose to purchase books to support your studies. Many books on our reading lists are available via the Library, or can be purchased secondhand. | £20-60 per book |
Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) |
£94-265 per week |
Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) |
£122-180 per week |
Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. |
Typically £0-200 |
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. BrookesBus travel is subsidised for full-time undergraduate students that are on a course with a fee of £9,250 or more, or living in an Oxford Brookes hall of residence. There is an administration fee for the production of a BrookesKey. |
From £10 |
Funding your studies
Financial support and scholarships
Featured funding opportunities available for this course.
All financial support and scholarships
Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.