English and Education Management BA (Hons) top-up
Coventry, United Kingdom
BA
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
This course is designed for learners who aim to enhance their knowledge of the English language and literature while engaging with education themes, including teaching young learners and English testing and management.
Course Overview
The course aims to prepare students to become effective teachers, managers or leaders in a variety of educational settings e.g. state and private higher education institutions, colleges and schools, as well as language academies, testing centres, consultancies or governmental agencies.
- You will have the opportunity to study a diverse range of modules on language/linguistics, literature, teaching English and education management.
- The course prepares you to be informed managers in a time of global complexity as well as digitally literate global citizens.
- As part of the Teaching Young Learners module, you will have the opportunity to undertake the TKT: YL which is a Teaching Knowledge Test module accredited by Cambridge English.
Why you should study this course
- A task-based/problem-based approach to learning and teaching.
- Varied and innovative assessment tasks.
- The excellent quality of both the pastoral and academic support offered to students, including support for dissertation/project selection and writing up.
- The innovative themes covered in literature (e.g. environment and ecocriticism).
On this one-year top-up course, you will have the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in a range of different fields including language/linguistics, literature, teaching English and education management.
Modules:
- Concepts in Education Management
- Themes in English Literature
- Effective Communication for Management and Leadership
- Teaching Young Learners
- Language Testing and Assessment
- Career Development Project
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
The course has been designed for learners who aim to enhance their knowledge of English while at the same time engage with education management and English teaching and assessment themes with the purpose of either obtaining better employment or becoming more effective managers in education settings.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- critically analyse modern literary works from a variety of global contexts
- critically evaluate and apply the principles underlying the teaching, learning and testing process with a focus on effective classroom management
- solve problems around different education management scenarios in different contexts
- deploy a range of intercultural competencies and recognise how language underpins intercultural interactions and transactions
- apply advanced communication skills, both written and oral, in various social, academic and professional contexts, and across various landscapes including in person, on paper and online
- be an independent, critical researcher who can effectively navigate and interpret information, make use of evidence, and communicate findings
- meet deadlines and challenges with resilience and confidence in order to perform successfully in a range of postgraduate roles.
Job destinations could include civil service roles, international recruitment officers, language centre directors, English Examiners, university lecturers, school teachers, academic consultants and course leaders and a wide range of academic leadership roles.
Where our graduates work
Graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations:
- Civil Service
- Materials Designer
- Test Designer
- Centre for Academic Writing tutor or teaching for example
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