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Maryvale's higher education courses have prestigious accreditation
Maryvale's higher education courses have prestigious accreditation
From its beginnings in the 1980s as a Diocesan Catechetical Centre offering short courses for lay people in the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, Maryvale Institute has developed to become an international, distance-learning college offering adult courses from Adult Formation to PhD level in a range of Catholic Studies. Students completing one of the Centre for Catechesis and Adult Formation courses receive a Maryvale certificate. The Higher education courses are offered through Maryvale's valuable validation partnerships.
The Maryvale Higher Institute of Religious Science (HIRS) is approved by the Ecclesiastical Theology Faculty Notre Dame de Paris, Ecole Cathedrale, Paris. Validated through this relationship are the HIRS programmes: the Ecclesiastical Bachelor of Divinity and the Licence in Divinity: Pathway in Catechetics.
In 2024, an exciting new venture was agreed between the Archdiocese of Birmingham and St Mary’s University, Twickenham (SMU) to deliver three of Maryvale’s programmes, the BA Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition, the MA in Catholic Studies and the Research (MPhil & PhD) in Catholic Studies programmes (until recently validated by the Open University and Liverpool Hope University) as part of a new ‘Maryvale at St Mary’s’.
