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Professional Courses

Delivering excellent education, professional training and robust research in deaf education and audiology to secure the future of deaf children and young people.

We offer a wide range of courses and training opportunities for anyone working in the field of deaf education or audiology. This is founded on more than 100 years of collective experience of working with profoundly deaf young people.

At Mary Hare, we teach around 200 deaf children every year.  It is with this continuing experience of understanding their needs, developing strategies and techniques to further their education and by providing the very best in technology and audiology, that we are able to offer courses to other professionals working in similar fields.  We work in partnership with a number of organisations to deliver some of our courses.

Mary Hare is now an approved apprenticeship provider 

We are very proud to announce that Mary Hare is now able to offer the Teacher for Sensory Impaired (QTOD) Apprenticeship.  This is your opportunity to use the apprenticeship levy to fund the long-awaited Teacher of deaf children & young people apprenticeship.  Get your application in early as places are limited.  

To register your interest and find out more please email us at courses@maryhare.org.uk

Applications are now being accepted for September 2025. PGDip Teaching Deaf Learners course (without apprenticeship) and for Teacher for Sensory Impaired (QTOD) which includes the PGDip.  Both lead to the Mandatory Qualification approved by the Department for Education for qualified Teachers of deaf children.

Expressions of interest are now being accepted for:

  • September 2026 PGDip Educational Audiology course
  • September 2025 MA Dissertation
  • September 2025 Single Module CPD (Formerly known as ‘stand-alone’) for modules from ToD or Ed Aud courses.

Please contact courses@maryhare.org.uk.  Watch this space for further announcements about stand-alone modules for CPD and master’s degree.

Mary Hare Courses

Con Powell Scholarships

BATOD, on behalf of the Ovingdean Hall Foundation, administers the Con Powell Scholarship to provide bursaries for teachers wishing to train as a Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People (ToDs) but who are not are not working as a Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People (ToD), so the local authority (LA) or school is not obliged to support financially.

See all listings on our Postgraduate and Courses page, or select from the following options below:

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Meet the Team

Our professional courses is led by an experienced team of people who have worked and participated in research in deaf education for many years.