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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.

We are the first and only training provider in the country for the TfSI (QTOD) apprenticeship; as well as the only one to offer Educational Audiology and Single Module CPD for some modules (subject to imminent contract) from the Educational Audiology PGDip.

At Mary Hare, we teach around 160 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 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.

Once you have applied to our PG Dip Teaching Deaf Learners (QTOD) course, you can then apply for this Scholarship. Deadlines to apply for this scholarship close on 7 April 2026

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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.

Meet the team
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