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OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training

The OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training is an in-service teaching qualification for post-14 practitioners, combining theory, practice, assessment, and professional development for teachi...

Awarding Body: OTHM|Course Level: Level 5
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Course features

This Ofqual-regulated OTHM qualification is a one-year, 120-credit teaching qualification with mandatory teaching practice, internally assessed coursework, and progression opportunities including QTLS and degree top-up routes.

  • Ofqual regulated Level 5 qualification

  • 120 credits, 1200 TQT and 360 GLH minimum

  • 4 mandatory units plus optional units to complete 120 credits

  • Minimum 100 hours of teaching practice required

  • Minimum 8 observed assessments totalling at least 8 hours

  • Eligible learners may progress toward QTLS and degree top-up study

About course

The OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training is an in-service qualification designed for those working or wishing to work as teachers or trainers in England. It develops the underpinning knowledge, understanding, and skills needed for occupational competence, including planning and delivering schemes of work and sessions, negotiating individual goals, using varied teaching strategies, addressing communication issues, and applying a range of assessment practices.

  • Designed for in-service teachers and trainers in the post-14 sector

  • Builds practical competence in planning, teaching, learning, and assessment

  • Includes professionalism, policy, quality, and reflective practice

  • Combines mandatory core teaching units with specialist optional pathways

  • Requires real teaching practice rather than simulated teaching

  • Supports progression into recognised professional and academic routes

What you will learn

This qualification develops the knowledge, understanding, and practical teaching skills specified by OTHM across teaching, learning, assessment, professionalism, curriculum, and reflective practice.

  • Understand roles, responsibilities, and professionalism in education and training

  • Apply theories, principles, and models of learning, communication, and assessment

  • Plan, deliver, and assess inclusive teaching and learning sessions

  • Create and maintain effective and inclusive learning environments

  • Evaluate and improve own teaching practice through reflection and evidence

  • Use assessment, curriculum, and quality processes to support learner achievement

Course content

Who should attend

This course is intended for current or aspiring post-14 teachers, tutors, trainers, lecturers, and instructors who can access substantial teaching practice in an education or training setting.

  • Teachers in further education colleges

  • Tutors in adult and community learning settings

  • Trainers delivering workplace or employer-based learning

  • Lecturers and instructors in public, private, voluntary, or community organisations

  • Practitioners seeking a recognised Level 5 teaching qualification

  • Individuals aiming to progress toward QTLS or higher study

Course requirements

OTHM requires learners to meet specific entry and suitability requirements, including subject-level knowledge, access to teaching practice, minimum core skills, age, and English language competence where applicable.

  • Hold a relevant vocational and/or academic qualification at least one level above that of the learners taught, ideally with a minimum Level 3 qualification in the learner’s own specialist area; have access to 100 teaching practice hours with full responsibility for planning, delivering, and assessing provision.

  • Meet minimum core requirements in literacy, language, numeracy, and ICT; be aged 19 or over at the start of the course; communicate clearly enough to meet training demands; have no criminal background preventing work with young people or vulnerable adults; and provide evidence of English competency if required.

Assessments

All units are internally assessed by the centre and externally verified by OTHM. The qualification is assessed through coursework and professional practice evidence, and teaching simulation is not permitted.

  • Written assignments mapped to all learning outcomes and assessment criteria

  • Portfolio of teaching evidence built across the programme

  • Observed teaching or training practice in a real teaching and learning environment

  • Minimum 8 assessed observations totalling at least 8 hours, plus evidence of 100 practice hours

Progression

Successful completion supports both professional and academic progression. OTHM states that accredited learners may progress toward QTLS through professional formation and may also enter relevant degree top-up programmes with advanced standing.

  • Progress toward Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) through SET professional formation

  • Progress to relevant degree top-up programmes in the UK and overseas

  • Use the qualification as a recognised alternative route comparable to CertEd and a PGCE alternative

  • Advance careers in further education, adult learning, work-based learning, and training roles

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