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Education Studies BA (Hons)
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.
You’ll 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.
You’ll also have the opportunity to choose from elective modules in years two and three that include global comparative education, technological transformations in learning, education and equality, and education and the arts.
Admission requirements
- A typical offer is a minimum of 112 UCAS points from at least two A levels, or
- BTEC National Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit or
- BTEC Extended Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit
Plus five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including English Language or Literature.
Alternative qualifications include:
- 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
- International Baccalaureate: 24+ points
English language requirements:
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent when you start the course is essential. English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL).
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
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First Year
- Developing Professional Agency
- Historical and Contemporary Issues in Education
- Perspectives on Education
- Childhood, Social Justice and Education
- Evidence-based Teaching and Learning
- Thinking and Learning in Higher Education
Second Year
Core modules:
- Researching Education
- Contexts for Inclusion
Plus, select one or two modules from:
- Philosophy of Education
- Global Comparative Education
- Contemporary Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Education
- Computer Programming as a Tool for Learning
- Music in the Life of the Primary School
- Perspectives on Diversity: Rhetoric or reality
- How People Learn
- Preparing for Professional Practice
- Forest School and Outdoor learning
- The ‘Priorities’ and Politics of Education
Third Year
Core module:
- Dissertation
You can choose two modules from:
- Special Educational Needs and disabilities
- Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity
- Gender and Education
- Adult Learners and Life-long Learning
- Radical Educations
- Arts and Education
- Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning
- Education and Wellbeing
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Tuition
2021/22 tuition fees
- UK students: £9,250 per year
- International students: £14,250 per year
- EU students: Check the website for more information
Career paths
This course helps develop skills that are particularly useful for students who want to build a career working with young children. While this can open up opportunities for employment in primary schools, it can also include nurseries as well as other pre and after-school settings.
Many of our recent graduates have started their careers in teaching, education practice, nurseries, youth work and educational publishing. Graduates can also build on their knowledge with postgraduate opportunities, including an Education Practice MA, which opens up opportunities to work in a number of wider educational environments, including youth and community work, local authority employment, social and educational research and early years settings.
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De Montfort University
De Montfort University (DMU) in England welcome hundreds of European students every year for one of our 300 courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level. We have approx. 25,000 students studying in our 4 faculties; Business & Law; Health &...
Why study at De Montfort University
- Ranked 20th for Graduate Prospects (The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020)
- In the top 10% of institutions overall recognised by the Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2020
- TEF Gold Award in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework – the only government-endorsed measure of teaching quality in higher education.
- Campus of the Future - DMU has invested £136m in transforming its campus, creating new green space in Leicester and using renewable energy technology. Four of the largest campus buildings generate renewable energy via more than 1,110 solar panels, and a wood biomass boiler cuts out the need to burn fossil fuels.
- 2030 Climate Action - More than 100 students and staff have taken part in carbon literacy training to understand how choices like transport, clothes, overseas travel and food impact the planet. DMU and the University of Leicester have teamed up with Leicester City Council to deliver the training in city schools. DMU has halved its carbon dioxide emissions since 2005.
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