Accreditation of Practice Placement Educators (APPLE)
The APPLE scheme is intended to be a national scheme for qualified occupational therapists and other health and social care professionals involved in the education of occupational therapy students. To find out more about the APPLE scheme and how you can become accredited, please visit the APPLE page.
Pre-registration Programme Accreditation
The accreditation process is a means by which the College of Occupational Therapists ensures that programmes and graduates of programmes using the title 'occupational therapy' or 'occupational therapist', are educated and practise in a manner that is consistent with the values, beliefs and philosophy of the profession, and by so doing, demonstrate 'fitness for profession'. The College offers all UK education providers of occupational therapy the opportunity to have their qualifying programmes accredited by the College, and through this process, obtain approval by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT)
The Education Officer (Accreditation) manages the accreditation process and annual monitoring of the accredited programmes. For copies of the documents, Accreditation of Pre-registration Programmes in Occupational Therapy and Report of the Annual Monitoring Reports, visit the publications list.
The Education Officer (Accreditation) provides advice to education providers and potential providers on matters relating to the College’s requirements. Contact Remy Reyes on 020 7450 2312 or email remy.reyes@cot.co.uk if you require further information.
For a full list of COT accredited and WFOT approved programmes that lead to an occupational therapy qualification please visit the OT as a Career section.
Courses can be endorsed by the College of Occupational Therapists
The College has an endorsement process for courses of educational value which are relevant to occupational therapy personnel. The benefits of having your course endorsed by the College are:
- Quality assurance of currency, relevance, occupational philosophy and educational level
- Add value to your course making it more attractive to occupational therapists or people working in jobs related to occupational therapy
- Request the involvement of the professional body in Masters level programme approval and review
- Free inclusion on the Interactive Learning Opportunities Database (iLOD) for one year
- Download guidance on the development of courses for endorsement by the College (41.8KB
*) - Download guidance on jointly developing a course with the College (98.8KB*)
Advertise your courses to our 29,000 members
The College has developed the Interactive Learning Opportunities Database (iLOD) for all CPD resources that may be suitable for occupational therapists. Inclusion on the database is an excellent way to advertise a course to over 29,000 members of the College.
- Download guidance for including a course on the Interactive Learning Opportunities Database (iLOD) (103KB*)
- Download the proforma to register with iLOD (111KB
) or, - Sign up as a provider online
Contact Clair Parkin - Education Officer (QA and Guidance) - for details about short course endorsement, advertising and iLOD.
College of Occupational Therapists
106-114 Borough High St
London
SE1 1LB
Telephone: 020 7450 2344
Email: clair.parkin@cot.co.uk
