HypnoTC aims to ensure fair and equitable treatment of all applicants for our Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma, hypnotherapy qualification and certificated courses and short introduction or CPD course (herein after ‘our courses’). Student recruitment and selection procedures and practices will be consistent with all relevant policies including our equality and diversity framework.
This policy covers all potential applicants for our courses and all staff concerned with the admission of students, including tutors, administration staff and the Director.
All decisions relating to accepting students onto our courses will be based on:
Potential students will have access to accurate and appropriate information and support to help them make an informed decision about applying for any of our courses.
Course information will give full details of the course and include clear entry criteria and details of the application process.
Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma course
Applicants will normally complete an application form and be interviewed to assess if they fulfil the entry requirements. This will normally include a screening of relevant English skills. The application needs to have a good standard of written and spoken conversational English. Interviews and screening may use online tools and/ or the telephone.
Any change to the published outcomes and content of courses will be communicated to the applicant without delay. HypnoTC will make every effort to deliver the course as published.
Places are allocated in order completion of the application process, including the course fee payment.
Where there are more applicants meeting the entry criteria than places, the application will have the option to be allocated to the next course and/ or join any waiting list.
Applicants are responsible for providing full and accurate information on application.
Any work suspected to be produced by generative AI tools will not be considered.
If applicants are later found to have misrepresented any pre-course requirement they can be excluded from the course and their fees will not be refunded.
Applicants have to notify HypnoTC of any changes or corrections to their original applications. Failure to do so may result in any offer of a place on a course being withdrawn.
All applicants for any HypnoTC training must be aged 18 years or older at the time of commencement of their training.
All applicants for the Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma course must provide evidence (sight of driving licence or passport) at the commencement of their training.
All applicants to the Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma course via the upskills/ refresher route must provide evidence, such as a photo of their certification.
All applicants to a short course that is designed for hypnotherapists must only apply if they have completed their hypnotherapy training. If not (eg a student or other talking therapist) then this should be raised with the Director prior to paying for the selected training.
Applicants with disabilities or additional needs are considered on the same academic grounds as all other applicants. Applicants are expected to provide information about their additional support needs or disabilities at the point of application, or earlier.
Where necessary, and by arrangement, HypnoTC will provide additional support during the application and assessment process.
If HypnoTC does not have the resources to meet the additional needs of a prospective student, then that student will be advised how else to proceed or be referred to alternative provision, wherever possible.
Feedback to unsuccessful applicants
Applicants will be informed if they have been unsuccessful as soon as possible. Appropriate feedback will be given on request and, where possible, suggestions made for alternative courses of study at HypnoTC or elsewhere.
Students who have been suspended and excluded from the college under the student disciplinary procedures may normally re-apply for admission after two academic years.
Under exceptional circumstances, HypnoTC reserves the right to refuse admission to an applicant where the student disciplinary procedure, fitness to study policy or fitness to practise policy applies.
If applicants believe they have been refused a place on a course unfairly, they should put their reasons in writing in to the Director. The decision of the Director is final.
Our website displays clear information relating to each training offering, including:
We routinely screen our admission process in terms of race, sex, disability and age.
HypnoTC reserves the right to make variations to courses, entry requirements and methods of delivery, and to discontinue or combine courses both before and after the student’s admission if such action is reasonably considered appropriate and necessary.