BTEC Higher Nationals Licensed Higher Nationals
If you’re a Higher Education Institution (HEI) looking to expand your offer to levels 4 and 5, Pearson provides the opportunity for HEIs to widen participation and strengthen the ladder of learning through the licensed HN agreement, whilst allowing institutions to have 100% ownership of quality assurance, assessment and certification.
About Pearson Licensed Higher Nationals
The Pearson Higher Nationals under licence is an agreement enabling HEIs in the United Kingdom or internationally to offer Higher National qualifications and Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs)* under licence and use the Pearson trademark ‘Higher National’.
* You can deliver Licensed HTQs under our IP licence agreement. You can read more about delivering Licensed HTQs, along with our FAQ guide below. Please note that HTQs can be offered in England only.
Licence types
Pearson offers two types of license agreements to HEIs, including the Pearson Intellectual Property (IP) License Agreement, and the Pearson Trademark (TM) Licence Agreement.
Pearson Licensed Higher Nationals offer
Watch the video to learn more about our Licensed offer.
Centre guide
Find out more about delivering Higher Nationals and HTQs under our licence agreement.
Our partners
Find out more about the universities we work with to deliver Level 4 and 5 Higher Nationals and HTQs.
Becoming a partner
See our step-by-step guide below to find out how you can become one of our licensed HEI partners.
Licensed HTQs
You can deliver HTQ approved Higher Nationals under our licence agreement.
Key documents
Programme approval and change forms
Institutional Review Reports (IRR)
Our Annual Institutional Review Reports (IRR) provide a summary of courses offered under licence including trends in recruitment and achievement, and good practices shared by all providers and future strategy for courses under licence.
This allows us to monitor and support each HEI to meet their individual needs to achieve their strategic goals. It also supports all our partner HEIs to look at the trends and practices from other providers and apply them to their own institutions where relevant. You can read our recent report below:
HN Flex modular delivery
Explore modular Higher National and HTQ delivery with HN Flex under licence.