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Quality Assurance of Osteopathic Education

We work together with osteopathic education providers to ensure they deliver high quality education and training, and safe, good quality osteopathic care for patients. 

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We use a range of methods to ensure that only graduates meeting the Osteopathic Practice Standards are awarded a recognised qualification. These include:

  • Regular visits to providers of osteopathic education
  • Monitoring of the education providers’ annual reports (this involves external sources of feedback from patients, students and staff and reports from external examiners)
  • Mandatory reporting on key changes made by education providers in how they provide osteopathic education (including changes to curriculums, student assessments, key staff changes etc)
  • Mechanisms for sharing and sustaining good practice
  • Ongoing dialogue between GOsC and osteopathic education providers
  • Monitoring of conditions or requirements
  • Management of concerns

The GOsC also has extensive powers, set out in legislation, to inspect and to require information from providers. 

Our Quality Assurance handbook explains in detail how we quality assure osteopathic education and training, including:

  • The roles and responsibilities within quality assurance
  • The quality assurance process
  • Details of initial recognition, renewal and monitoring visits
  • The annual reporting process

Read our Quality Assurance handbook.

Applying for recognition of a qualification

To apply for the recognition of an osteopathy qualification, please complete and submit the GOsC Initial RQ Application Form. For further information contact the Professional Standards Department on education@osteopathy.org.uk.

Notification of a change to a Recognised Qualification

Educational providers must inform the GOsC of any change, or proposed change, to a course that would have a potential or actual impact on the delivery of the Osteopathic Practice Standards, maintaining patient safety and public protection. The process an institution should follow is set out in the document Recognised Qualifications: notification of change process and form, and the institution should inform the GOsC of the changes using the form in the document, and send the completed form to the education inbox at  education@osteopathy.org.uk.

International students and osteopathic education

To enrol students requiring a visa to study in the UK, educational providers in the UK are required to obtain a Tier 4 licence. Further information for Tier 4 sponsors is available from the government website.

Further information for those wishing to study on a Tier 4 student visa can be found on the UK Government website.

 

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