What qualifications does the Open University “conversion course” provide and are they recognised in Germany?
The “Conversion Course” leading to the “Diploma in Psychology” qualification is a special feature of the English educational system which is designed to enable graduates to register as members of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and which roughly corresponds with the level of a bachelor’s degree in social science. The qualification may be obtained after a one-year period of distance learning study of psychology provided that the student already has a first degree in which they studied psychology for one year – regardless of whether psychology was studied as a major or minor subject (60 credit points in psychology). Alternatively, students who have not taken psychology at all in their previous degrees must first successfully complete an introductory course in psychology worth 60 credit points which is offered by the Open University. In England this qualification has been accredited in an agreement between the Open University and the BPS as entitling holders to the British Psychol
