Careers Brief - English DipHE

Overview

The DipHE in English offers you the opportunity for progression onto an Honours degree programme and direct job entry, although the advantages of being an Honours graduate can be significant for many careers.

English graduates go into a wide variety of occupations. The excellent written and verbal skills you can develop on your course, in addition to other employability skills (such as organising, teamworking, IT, working independently and to deadlines) are of value to most employers.

To help you clarify your personal career direction, use the Prospects Planner and other tools. For links, go to the main Career Planning section of this Guide. Some options may require an Honours degree qualification and perhaps additional study and training.

Related careers include: creative writing; teaching; TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language); journalism; publishing; public relations; marketing and sales; public sector management; TV programme researcher; advertising copywriter; librarian; bookseller; arts administrator; performing arts.

For overviews of related industry sectors, go to National Guidance Research Forum for 'LMI Future trends' and 'Sectors covered'.

Go to the website links below to find out more.

Further Study

On successful completion of the DipHE, you may enter the final year of the BA (Hons) English at the University of Winchester to achieve an Honours degree. Go to www.winchester.ac.uk/ for information on this course.

To search other degree courses, go to www.ucas.com/ (UCAS - Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Use the university/college links for course details. Entry point could depend on the overlap between courses, your grades and experience but could be the final year.

You will need to use UCAS to apply for courses. Contact the Course Tutor of your chosen course to find out your position, before you make your formal application.

Find out how much this will cost you. Where is the funding coming from? Go to the university/college links for information on costs and finance and to the section on Financial support for additional help.

Alternatively, you could consider 'topping up' your DipHE to Honours through distance learning with the Open University. You could be awarded up to 240 credits and then only need 120 credits of OU study at level 3, to achieve an Honours degree. This would also give you the opportunity to take up employment. Go to www.open.ac.uk/ to search undergraduate courses and credit transfer.

With a good Honours degree (First or 2.1), you may progress onto an appropriate higher level Masters and/or PhD doctorate. This could be to develop your area of study to a more in-depth academic level or gain other specialist training.

For information on postgraduate study and finance, go to the national online directory at www.prospects.ac.uk/study.htm .

Go to the main section on Further Study of this Guide for more information and help.