Education BA Honours
- UCAS code: X390
- Full time
- 3 years
Explore education in different contexts across the globe and equip yourself with the ability to inspire, support and engage with people of all ages.
You are currently viewing course information for entry year: 2025
Next start date:
- September 2025
UCAS Institution name and code:
- NEWC / N21
Course overview
Our BA Honours in Education explores the study of education across the globe. You'll consider sociological, philosophical, historical, political, and psychological perspectives.
Explore the differences between formal and informal learning environments, from museums, art galleries and community organisations to the more structured environments of schools, colleges, and universities.
Examine issues relating to teaching and learning across a wide range of age phases, from early years to lifelong learners. Learn about the relationships between teacher and learner and how these change over time.
Investigate the role of international development in supporting education in developing countries. Explore barriers, such as poverty and access, on a wider geographical scale.
Enhance your employability and gain real world experience through optional work placements in schools, charities and businesses.
Develop a diverse set of research, communication and critical analysis skills that will set you on a path to wide range of careers.
You’ll have the opportunity to tailor your degree to your interests through a range of optional modules covering topics such as:
- gender
- digital learning
- social justice
- special educational needs
You’ll also have the option to study modules from modern languages, sociology, business and politics alongside your education studies.
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Modules and learning
Modules
The information below is intended to provide an example of what you will study.
Most degrees are divided into stages. Each stage lasts for one academic year, and you'll complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each stage.
Our teaching is informed by research. Course content may change periodically to reflect developments in the discipline, the requirements of external bodies and partners, and student feedback.
Featured module
EDU2010: Gender and EducationExamine the evolution of ideas about natural and socially constructed differences between the sexes up to the present day. Explore the impact of these ideas upon the education system.
Optional module availability
Student demand for optional modules may affect availability.
Full details of the modules on offer will be published through the Programme Regulations and Specifications ahead of each academic year. This usually happens in May.
To find out more please see our terms and conditions
You’ll build key foundational knowledge around the study of education.
Modules
* You may have the option of choosing a different module with approval from the Degree Programme Director
In your second year you will study specialist aspects of education enabling you to apply theory to practice.
Modules
| Compulsory Modules | Credits |
|---|---|
| Psychological perspectives on teaching and learning | 20 |
| Schools, Statistics and Stories: Researching Education | 20 |
| Globalisation and Development | 20 |
In your final year you’ll continue to explore and develop your own interests, delving deeper into issues that interest you the most. You’ll also complete a research dissertation on a topic of your choosing.
Modules
| Compulsory Modules | Credits |
|---|---|
| Research Dissertation | 40 |
Additional compulsory module information
You take either of the following 2 modules:
| Modules | Credits |
|---|---|
| Responding to Special Educational Needs | 20 |
| Social Justice and Education | 20 |
We base these figures and graphs on the most up-to-date information available to us. They are based on the modules chosen by our students in 2024-25.
Teaching time is made up of:
- scheduled learning and teaching activities. These are timetabled activities with a member of staff present.
- structured guided learning. These are activities developed by staff to support engagement with module learning. Students or groups of students undertake these activities without direct staff participation or supervision
Teaching and assessment
Teaching methods
You’ll learn through a combination of:
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Workshops and practical tasks
• Independent study
Assessment methods
You'll be assessed through a combination of:
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Case studies
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Coursework
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Dissertation or research project
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Essays
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Group work
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Portfolio submission
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Presentations
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Projects
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Reflective report/journal
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Reports
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Seminar tasks/exercises
Skills and experience
Real business skills
Optional work placements provide you with the opportunity to develop a wide range of transferrable skills in real-world settings, including:
- written and verbal communication for a variety of audiences
- critical analysis
- time management
- organisation and planning
- teamwork and collaboration
- leadership
Research skills
Throughout your degree you’ll develop your analytical, investigative and research skills enabling you to produce your own original research dissertation in your final year.
Opportunities
Work Placement
You’ll have the opportunity to take two work placement modules during your degree. Our strong local and global connections have allowed our students to secure work placements in a variety of areas and roles, including:
- Schools
- International development organisations
- Charities - UK and International
- Working with refugees of all ages
- English as a foreign language
Facilities and environment
Facilities
You'll be based in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, which has a wide range of facilities for studying how people learn and communicate.
There's a well-equipped Education Resource Centre with excellent computing facilities.
We have an active Research Centre engaging with the latest thinking and research in education. The Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLaT) researches teaching and learning in different contexts.
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Support
You'll have the support of an academic member of staff as a personal tutor throughout your degree to help with academic and personal issues.
Peer mentors will help you in your first year. They are fellow students who can help you settle in and answer any questions you have when starting university.
Your future
Join a network of successful graduates
This course prepares you for a wide range of careers across the globe. Our graduates have gone on to work in:
- Education management
- Community / health work
- Widening participation
- Rehabilitation programmes
- Human resources
- Local authorities
- Museums and heritage
- Digital learning
- Environmental organisations
- Teaching English abroad
- Education research
Further Study
This course is excellent preparation for further postgraduate study. If you’d like to become a teacher, our Primary PGCE may be of interest.
Make a difference
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Entry requirements
All candidates are considered on an individual basis and we accept a broad range of qualifications. The entrance requirements and offers below apply to 2025 entry.
| A-Level | |
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| International Baccalaureate | |
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Other UK and the Republic of Ireland qualifications
Contextual Offers
Through one of our contextual routes, you could receive an offer of up to three grades lower than the typical requirements.
Qualifications from outside the UK
English Language requirements
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Tuition fees and scholarships
Tuition fees for academic year 2025-2026
See our ‘Home Fee Students’ and ‘International Fee Students’ information below for more information on tuition fee levels, fee status and inflationary fee increases.
| Qualification: BA Honours | |
|---|---|
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Home students full time 3 years |
Tuition fees (Year 1)
£9,535 |
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International students full time 3 years |
Tuition fees (Year 1)
23800 |
Year abroad and additional costs
For programmes where you can spend a year on a work placement or studying abroad, you will receive a significant fee reduction for that year.
Some of our degrees involve additional costs which are not covered by your tuition fees.
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