How is the Programme Designed?

The BSc (Hons) in Midwifery has been designed in collaboration and partnership with our current and alumni students, listening carefully to their feedback and evaluations, and with our valued clinical practice partners and maternity service users/advocacy groups.  We hope that you will find the course fulfilling, stimulating and enjoyable. It is designed to provide a breadth of experience, underpinned by appropriate theoretical knowledge in midwifery practice in all areas of midwifery care provision. 

You will be supported throughout your studies by a range of experienced and dedicated staff, who all hold post-graduation qualifications as well as formal teaching credentials. All the lecturing staff are practising midwives with a range of practice experiences.

Academic assessment tasks are set to test the module aims and outcomes in a meaningful way. Tasks set will be designed to be innovative and creative as well as represent genuine real-world development of professional skills, knowledge, values and technical capabilities.

Progression is shown through the development of critical thinking skills at levels 4, 5 and 6. These skills will be stimulated using active learning methods and real-world scenarios. By the end of the programme, you will exhibit 'Graduateness' by demonstrating the following:

• Open to new ideas, knowledgeable, observant, and resourceful

• Innovative, creative and flexible in thinking and practice. 

• Analytical, assertive and persistent in finding solutions.

• Capable of understanding the discipline of midwifery, focusing on best outcomes.

The nature of Assessment for theory and practice for each module is available through your module sites. Assessments MUST be passed to progress on the course.

All your assessments have 2 attempts (a first attempt and a last attempt). In some of the modules you may be offered an option of ‘In- Module Retrieval’ (IMR). This means that you are allowed to rework your first attempt following feedback. Where this option exists, you are encouraged to engage as this is to your benefit. 

You must pass all your theoretical and practical assessments to progress on the programme.  Failure to do so will result in you being discontinued from the programme. This course is exempt from compensation and re-registration/ reassessment entitlement due to professional body standards

You are generally expected to study in consecutive years for the duration of the course provided you meet the rules of progression to each level of study. In exceptional circumstances when meaningful engagement with the course is not possible a break in study may be necessary. This will be discussed with a member of the course team and must follow the rules and regulations