Degree exemptions
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) has accredited universities which offer consumer related degrees. These degrees and qualifying law degrees (a law degree that satisfies the outcomes from the Law Society) offer potential exemptions in the trading standards professional qualifications framework.
The exemptions are subject to the completion date of your degree and the pass mark for each module.
Universities that have had current and previous degrees accredited and therefore have exemptions are:
University of Wales Cardiff, Manchester Metropolitan University, Teesside University, Nottingham Trent University, Glasgow Caledonian,
For example; possible exemptions available from the consumer protection degree at Manchester Metropolitan University:
- Foundation Legal Systems Examination
- Foundation Consumer Protection Environment
- Foundation Law of Contract and Tort
- Consumer Credit
- Fair Trading Criminal
- Fair Trading Civil
- Food Standards
- Product Safety
- Money Advice
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Metrology Weights and Measure Technology and Law
- HDCATS Quality Assurance
- HDCATS Management of Regulatory Services
Qualifying Law degrees give you potential exemptions from two examinations in the professional qualifications framework:
- Foundation Legal Systems
- Foundation Law of Contract and Tort.
