Education (including foundation year)
London Metropolitan University
UCAS Code: X302 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
GCSE/National 4/National 5
English Language at grade C (grade 4) or above (or equivalent).
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About this course
**Why study this course?**
Our Education (including foundation year) BA degree will open opportunities for you to enter education. Our four-year course is the perfect route into a career in education if you can’t meet the necessary entry requirements or don't have the traditional qualifications required to start a standard undergraduate degree. You’ll graduate with the same degree title and award as students on the traditional route.
On the course you’ll have tutors and academic mentors who will support you to achieve your educational goals and identify your strengths. Offering great flexibility by the end of your foundation year, we’ll provide you with opportunities for specialism in a wide-range of subjects after introducing you to a broad range of social sciences and current subjects.
**More about this course**
Our Education (including a foundation year) BA course will engage your interest in a range of issues within the sphere of education and social sciences. Learning in a stimulating environment, you’ll develop your critical thinking and reasoning skills, allowing you to construct, evaluate and defend arguments in the sphere of education and related studies. We’ll equip you with the practical and academic skills that will allow you to assess what shapes educational practices, policies and institutions.
Throughout your degree, you’ll receive academic and pastoral support from a range of services at the University. Your support system will include an academic tutor and academic mentors, who will offer individual support, as well as small group workshops to reinforce your skills development and to ensure that you’re settling into university.
The foundation year will build your confidence and improve your academic skills, providing a great foundation for higher academic study. You’ll develop an important variety of skills including research, report writing, critical analysis and planning. All of these are considered necessary by employers across an array of industries and indispensable in higher study of education and other social sciences.
Your foundation will be shared with students from a number of our other foundation year courses, so in Year 0 you'll get to study with other students interested in a variety of different specialisms. You’ll also take a taster module in education, so that you can gain an awareness of the field you will be studying for the following years. The taster module will introduce you to perspectives on the nature and purpose of education. It will present a critical overview of key historical changes that have shaped formal systems of education and highlight wider discussion on politics and policy in education, in particular issues around diversity and inclusion.
The focus in the subsequent years will shift from providing you with academic skills in the context of education studies to expanding your knowledge of the theories and practices in the field of education.
Modules
Year 0 modules include:
Critical Thinking (core)
Reflecting on Self and Society (core)
Media, Crime and Race (core)
Researching Discrimination (core)
Researching Inequality (core)
Interventions for Change (core)
Social Issues in Context: Text to Essay (core)
Studying Education: Reflection and Critique (core)
Year 1 modules include:
Making Sense of Education (core)
The School and the City (core)
Knowledge, Culture and Education (core)
Becoming an Educationist: Reading, Writing and Enquiry (core)
Year 2 Education BA modules include:
Sociology and the Curriculum (core)
Researching Education (core)
Psychology of Learning (core)
Education: Experiential Learning (core)
Extension of Knowledge Module (option)
Open Language Programme (option)
Becoming a Teacher (option)
Year 2 Education with Practice BA modules include:
Sociology and the Curriculum (core)
Researching Education (core)
Psychology of Learning (core)
Working in Education: Preparing for Professional Practice (core)
Year 3 Education BA modules include:
Education Studies Dissertation (core)
Educators as Social Pedagogues (core)
Inclusion, Education and Equalities (alt core)
Philosophy of Education (alt core)
Gender and Education (option)
Education, Sport and Health in Society (option)
Extension of Knowledge Module (option)
Open Language Programme Module (option)
Year 3 Education with Practice BA modules include:
Education Studies Dissertation (core)
Preparing for QTS: Becoming a Teacher (core)
Inclusion, Education and Equalities (alt core)
Philosophy of Education (alt core)
Gender and Education (option)
Education, Sport and Health in Society (option)
Extension of Knowledge Module (option)
Open Language Programme Module (option)
Assessment methods
We pride ourselves on our student-centred and varied assessments. Each of the methods have been designed to help you flourish in your studies and support the development of key academic skills.
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When you look at employment stats, bear in mind that a lot of students are already working in education when they take this type of course and are studying to help their career development. This means they already have jobs when they start their course, and a lot of graduates continue to study, whilst working, when they complete their courses. If your course is focused on nursery or early years education, a lot of these graduates go into nursery work or classroom or education assistant jobs; these jobs are not currently classed as 'graduate level' in the stats (although they may well be in the future as classifications catch up with changes in the way we work), and many graduates who enter these roles say that a degree was necessary.
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Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
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