Program Overview

Education Studies BA (Hons)

Overview

The BA (Hons) Education Studies gives you a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of education studies, and a range of practical, professional and key transferable skills to make you career ready.

Course Details

Year 1 Core Modules

• Education and the State
  • Discover the key moments in the history of British education that have shaped current education policy, practice and curriculum.
  • This is a 20-credit module.
• Language and Learning
  • Consider language in educational situations.
  • Develop your understanding of how language is learnt in childhood and how this impacts on development.
  • This is a 40-credit module.
• Learning Outside the Classroom
  • Explore how learning happens in different contexts and settings beyond the classroom.
  • This is a 20-credit module.
• Skills for Education
  • You consider the importance of research to understand and approach problems in educational settings.
  • And you look at aspects of academic reading, writing and referencing, preparing you for future practice.
  • This is a 40-credit module.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Diversity in Education: Reality or Rhetoric?
  • Develop an understanding of diversity in society and examine some of the ways in which education systems respond to it.
  • This is a 40-credit module.
• Future Directions in Education (Level 5)
  • Understand your strengths and areas for development, and develop graduate skills including effective communication, interview techniques, work etiquette, and professional presentation.
  • This is a 20-credit module.
• Safeguarding and Wellbeing
  • Enhance your knowledge and understanding of the importance of safeguarding policies and procedures for children.
  • This is a 20-credit module.
• Students as Tutors
  • Develop your knowledge and key skills to be confident in delivering learning.
  • This is a 40-credit module.

Year 3 Core Modules

• Education, Identity and Society
  • Explore and critically consider education in relation to the reproduction of social inequalities and the formation of identity.
  • This is a 20-credit module.
• Research Project
  • Develop your independent research skills on a topic of personal interest that relates to your course.
  • This is a 60-credit module.
• Supporting Vulnerable Children and Families
  • Develop your knowledge and understanding of vulnerability in early childhood, and how agencies should work together to support and safeguard children.
  • This is a 20-credit module.

Optional Modules

• Enhancing Children’s Learning and Development
  • Enhance your understanding of pedagogy in childhood, drawing on and synthesising your learning in previous years to deepen your understanding of how to support children’s learning and development.
  • This is a 20-credit module.
• Future Directions in Education (Level 6)
  • Develop graduate skills through work experience, professional activity or work-related learning, preparing you for employment in educational contexts.
  • This is a 20-credit module.

Entry Requirements

• A typical offer is 72-96 tariff points from at least two A levels, T level or equivalent.
• You must have GCSE English at grade 4 (grade C) or equivalent.

Employability

• Careers include a range of educational roles within schools, further and higher education, local councils and library or museum services.
• You may be able to progress on to a primary PGCE that provides Qualified Teacher Status with a good honours degree.

Tuition Fees

• UK applicants: £9,535 a year
• International applicants: £17,000 a year

Other Course Routes

• BA (Hons) Education Studies (with Foundation Year)