BA (Hons) Education Studies

Course Overview

This course provides an opportunity to engage in current debates on education by focusing on the contemporary approaches, skills, and methods used in teaching, learning, and educational wellbeing, and looking at how childhood is shaped by culture and society. Our students explore how people develop through education and, by taking part in placement and volunteering opportunities, gain a broad range of skills that are transferable to careers in socially orientated professions. Recent graduates have gone on to work in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work, and educational publishing or choose to progress to postgraduate level courses, such as our Education Practice MA. Youll cover topics including perspectives on education, thinking and learning in higher education, historical and contemporary issues, teaching diversity, how people learn, and special educational needs.

General Eligibility

GCSEs

• Five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including: English and Maths

Plus one of the following:

A Level

• A minimum of 112 points from 2 or more A levels

BTEC

• BTEC National Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit or

• BTEC Extended Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit

Alternative qualifications include:

Access to HE Diploma

• Pass in QAA accredited Access to HE overall 112 UCAS tariff with at least 30  Level 3 credits at Merit.

We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 overall is essential.