BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

Program Overview

Primary Education with QTS BA (Hons)

Overview

This undergraduate primary education course will give you a degree and a QTS qualification. You will learn about children’s rights, core educational values and learning methods. The subjects and pedagogical approaches you study will be tailored to the developmental needs and learning styles of children aged 5-11.

Course Options

• Start date: September 2025
• Degree: UCAS code: X UCAS points
• Entry Requirements:
  • Academic requirements:
    • 112 UCAS points from an equivalent Level 3 qualification listed on the UCAS tariff calculator, including:
      • A Levels in at least two subjects
      • BTEC Extended Diploma – DMM
      • BTEC Diploma – DD
      • Access to HE Diploma
      • T Levels - International Baccalaureate – 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level
      • Level 3 Extended Diploma for Children and Young People's Workforce (QCF) / Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education
  • English Language requirements:
    • IELTS 5.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking (or recognised equivalent)
  • Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS):
    • Applicants for this course are required to complete a Student Suitability Declaration and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

Fees, Funding, and Additional Costs

• Fees:
  • UK/Home students: £9,535 per year
  • International students: £15,560 per year
• Funding:
  • UK fee status holders: Government funding, UEL funding, External funding
  • International fee status holders: UEL scholarships, Ways to pay
• Additional costs:
  • Textbooks
  • Computer equipment
  • Printing
  • Travel

Course Modules

• Year 1:
  • School Based Training 1a: Mental Wealth
  • School Based Training 1b: Professional Learning
  • English Teaching in Primary Education
  • Mathematics Teaching in Primary Education
  • Child Development, Applied Pedagogy and Classroom Management
  • Children's Rights and Children's Worlds
• Year 2:
  • School Based Training 2a: Mental Wealth
  • School Based Training 2b: Professional Learning
  • Curriculum Subject Knowledge: Professional Development
  • Curriculum Subject Knowledge: Policy Development
  • Assessment in Primary Education
  • Research Methods
• Year 3:
  • School Based Training 3a: Mental Wealth
  • School Based Training 3b: Professional Learning
  • Specialist Applied Project
  • Values-based Teaching
  • Wider School Life

Your Future Career

• Industry links: Your school placement provides a chance to impress educational professionals, helping you build a valuable network for potential job opportunities.
• Graduate employers: Our students are employed as teachers in primary schools in: Barking and Dagenham, Essex, Hackney, Hertfordshire and Redbridge.
• Job roles: This degree equips you to become a teacher in a primary school. Alternatively, you could choose to specialise in a particular area of education.
• Further study: We offer a wide range of masters degrees in special education, early childhood or leadership in education, should you choose to specialise further.

How We Support Your Career Ambitions

• Career Zone: This digital platform provides you with careers and employability resources, including jobs board, mentoring programmes, 1-2-1 career coaching services, careers workshops and employer events, and learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight.
• Mental Wealth programme: Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you've mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

How You'll Learn

• Guided independent study: When not attending timetabled lectures you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study.
• Academic support: Students are supported with any academic or subject-related queries by module leaders and former and current UEL students. An Academic Adviser will support you as you set your personal academic and professional goals each term and signpost UEL services that you can access.

How You'll Be Assessed

• Assessment methods: We assess all modules through different forms of coursework. Assessment methods include group work, exams and individual work including essays.
• Feedback: Feedback is provided within 15 working days in line with UEL's assessment and feedback policy.

Campus and Facilities

• Stratford Campus, London, E15 4LZ: Our historic Stratford campus is located in one of the best-connected areas of London: close to Stratford's thriving town centre, the 2012 Olympic Park, just 15 minutes from London's West End and 20 minutes from Canary Wharf.

Who Teaches This Course

• Course leader: Flora Kisby, Alison Baker, Ruth E Hunt, Dr Ben Taylor, Dr Huw Humphreys, Ms Alice Reedy, Debbie Kilbride

Official Student Data from Discover Uni

• Statistics for BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS Degree, full time:
  • 80% say staff value students views and opinions about the course
  • 100% of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well
  • 77% in work or doing further study 15 months after the course

What Our Students and Staff Say

• Courtney McGrath: "The quality of teaching, high level of engagement in lectures and seminars, and the interesting and thought-provoking topics and conversations I had throughout the course is greatly appreciated"
• Dr Shrehan Lynch: "The trainee teachers we have the opportunity to work with make UEL special, they are passionate about being the change in education and creating learning experiences for young people in the 21st century."