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Education Studies BA

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    Key Information

    • Study Level:

      Bachelor

    • Duration:

      3 Years

    • Study Mode:

      Full Time/Part Time

    • Tuition Fees EU/EEA:

      £ 9,250 Per Year

      These fees apply to students from the EU/EEA

    • Tuition Fees International :

      £ 11,000

      These fees apply to students from outside the EU/EEA

    institution

    Plymouth Marjon University

    Plymouth Marjon University began as a pair of London-based teacher training colleges in the 1840s, St John’s and St Marks.  St John’s in Battersea was the first bespoke teacher training college in England. Its initial class of students in 1840 included orphans from a nearby workhouse. Together, St Johns and St Marks were credited with […]

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    Course Summary

    Plymouth Marjon University’s Education Studies BA program is a great way to prepare yourself for training to become an educator, or to explore the theoretical and practical concerns underlying modern education on an academic level. Whether your career plans include teaching, educational research or education management, this course will give you the foundation you need to move into the field with confidence.

    Students are attracted to this program for many reasons. For example, Marjon has a 180 year tradition for turning out top notch educators of all kinds. Its Education graduates also tend to earn higher salaries than graduates from any other school in the South West or Wales.                       

    This program includes several opportunities for work experience, internships and other experiential events and is very practically oriented overall. These will occur once I every school year, and can be arranged at any of the hundreds of schools, educational research centres and other organisations who regularly work with the university.

    If you are changing direction after starting in another career area, you will possess valuable work experience and professional awareness. Many employers actively seek candidates with these benefits. Our network of contacts, a dedicated employability service and a reputation in the legal profession mean we also have an outstanding track-record of finding students legal employment.Many employers favour GDL students in an increasingly competitive legal job market. Through studying another degree subject, you will have gained many transferable skills. By taking the conversion route into law, you are showing motivation and determination by choosing law at a later stage than some others. This looks good to employers.

    If you are changing direction after starting in another career area, you will possess valuable work experience and professional awareness. Many employers actively seek candidates with these benefits. Our network of contacts, a dedicated employability service and a reputation in the legal profession mean we also have an outstanding track-record of finding students legal employment.Many employers favour GDL students in an increasingly competitive legal job market. Through studying another degree subject, you will have gained many transferable skills. By taking the conversion route into law, you are showing motivation and determination by choosing law at a later stage than some others. This looks good to employers.

    Course Outline

    This program is typically delivered over 3 years at full time. Part time options may be available.

    Year 1 Modules Include:

    • Change, Social Justice and Sustainability
    • Communication in Context
    • Education: Inclusion and Diversity
    • Education: Origins, Ideas and Values
    • Engaging with Learning
    • First Year Placement Project
    • Psycho-Social Development

    Year 2 Modules Include:

    • A Critical Understanding of Approaches to Numeracy
    • Creativity in the Outdoors
    • Critical Perspectives on Families and Parenting
    • Education and Society
    • Effective Group Work: Critical Practice for Social Change
    • Independent Study
    • Inter-Professional Practice: Safeguarding
    • Issues in Educational Management
    • Key Thinkers in Education
    • Learning and Teaching
    • Second Year Placement Project
    • Researching Education, Health and Welfare

    Year 3 Modules Include:

    • Community Psychology
    • Developing a Personal Philosophy of Education*
    • Disability
    • Dissertation
    • Feminism
    • Final Year Placement Project
    • Global Education and Sustainability: Formal and Informal Learning and Change
    • Independent Study
    • Managing Difference: Inclusion and The Primary Classroom*
    • Performativity, Accountability and Assessment*
    • Perspectives on Play and Learning

    Learning & Teaching

    Plymouth Marjon University uses fairly standard teaching methods. These include the familiar modes of large, formal lectures, smaller and more interactive seminars, practical skills workshops and other classroom activities. However, there is also a great deal of emphasis on gaining practical, real world skills.

    Towards that end, you’ll take master classes and visit local schools as well as engaging in working placements in the community. Your teaching will not be assessed, letting you explore different modes.

    Career Possiblities

    More than 95% of Marjon’s graduates find suitable work (or enter into higher degree programs) within 6 months of successfully completing their degrees.

    You’ll have the option if transferring directly into a PG Certification program for Early Years Teaching, School Direct or PGCE, any of which will allow you to teach professionally in the UK. Other options include roles in educational management, welfare, working with young people, community education or more informal education, such as the kind provided at cultural events or tourist destinations.

    Entry Credit

    Successful completion will result in a 3 year BA degree.

    Applicants must typically have earned 96 UCAS Tariff points, 3 A Levels at CCC or better, or the international equivalent. The full list of qualifications which are accepted can be found here.

    All classes are taught in English, and international students will be required to show proficiency in English by scoring well on an approved test. An IELTS score of 6.0 or better overall would qualify, for example.

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