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Education Studies

Entry requirements


Combination from minimum of 2 or more A-Levels

Access to HE Diploma

M:30

Pass in QAA accredited Access to HE overall 104 UCAS tariff with at least 30 Level 3 credits at Merit.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DMM

UCAS Tariff

104

from minimum of 2 or more A-Levels

About this course


Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

Subject

Education studies

**Overview**
This programme provides opportunities to engage in many aspects of education, childhood, and life-long learning. You will engage with a range of academic disciplines to discuss, debate and question educational structures, policy, practice and theory.

Our Education Studies programme enhances personal development and depth of thought. We believe in creative and collaborative approaches to evidence-based teaching and learning. The programme will empower students to see their own career path in education environments as individual, ongoing, multi-faceted and with many routes. With social justice and inclusion at its heart, alongside work-based learning opportunities, the programme inspires its staff and students to engage with local, national, and global issues. The programme aspires to achieve sector recognition for its innovative research, engaging content and modes of delivery which are transformative for its staff, students, and the wider community.

Our students explore how people develop through education and, by taking part in placement and volunteering opportunities from the first year of study and throughout their degree programme, gain a broad range of skills that are transferable to careers in socially-orientated professions.

You will cover modules including Perspectives of Education, Childhood, Social Justice and Education, Ways of Learning and Wellbeing, and Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity. The programme will also help you to develop transferable skills and your professional agency through placement opportunities.

Recent graduates have gone on to work in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work, educational publishing, the creative industries or choose to progress to postgraduate level courses, such as our Education Practice MA.

**Key features**
- You will benefit from Education 2030 - DMU’s new way of delivering courses, focusing on ensuring the best possible experience for our students. Through block teaching, you will focus on one subject at a time instead of several at once. This means that you will be able to focus closely on each subject and absorb your learning material in more depth, whilst working more closely with your tutors and course mates.

- Engage with the local community and boost your CV through placements and volunteering opportunities in learning environments such as schools, art and learning centres or museums.

- Successful completion of the course provides a foundation to progress onto Initial Teacher Training, enabling you to become a teacher in the UK.

- Select a route through this degree in English Language, English Literature, Creative Writing, History or Drama. These carefully chosen routes will complement and enrich your understanding of your main subject, alongside broadening your skillset to give you a wider range of career paths upon graduation.

- Our students have gained international experience related to their studies through our DMU Global programme. Education Studies students have previously explored museum education in Amsterdam, considered inequality and segregation in New York, and supported refugees in Berlin.

Modules

**FIRST YEAR:**
Block 1: An Introduction to Education: History and Academic Discipline
Block 2: Perspectives of Education
Block 3: Childhood, Social Justice and Education OR you can select to study one route from the list below:

- Creative Writing route: Writers Salon
- Drama route: Shifting Stages
- English Language route: Evolving Language
- English Literature route: Introduction to Drama - Shakespeare
- History route: Global Cities

Block 4: Contemporary and Evidence-Based Issues in Education

**SECOND YEAR:**
Block 1: Ways of Learning and Wellbeing
Block 2: Research Methods in Education
Block 3 Select one of:

- Applied Performance
- Preparing for Professional Practice (placement module) and Cultural and - Educational Transformations

OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
- Creative Writing route: Story Craft
- Drama route: Theatre Revolutions
- English Language route: Sociolinguistics
- English Literature route: Text Technologies
- History route: Humans and the Natural World

Block 4: Inclusion and Diversity

**THIRD YEAR:**
Block 1
Select one of:
- Creativity in Education
- Radical Education
- Global and Comparative Education
- Music in the Life of the Primary School

Block 2
Select one of:

- The Practice and Policies of Primary Education
- Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity
- Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity

Block 3
Select one of:
- Adult Learners and Life-long Learning
- Gender and Education
- Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning (placement module)

OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Creative Writing route: Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
Drama route: Performance, Identity and Activism
English Language route: Language and Identity
English Literature route: World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond
History route: The World on Display

Block 4: Dissertation

Assessment methods

This is a full-time course. Each module is worth 30 credits. You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, independent research and self-directed study. Assessment may include, but is not limited to:

- Presentations
- Micro-teaching sessions
- Contributions to electronic discussion boards
- Creating wikis and lesson planning
- Blogs
- Essays

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

England
£9,250
per year
EU
£15,750
per year
International
£15,750
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Leicester Campus

Department:

Health and Life Sciences

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

84%
Education studies

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Education

Teaching and learning

79%
Staff make the subject interesting
85%
Staff are good at explaining things
84%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
75%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

74%
Library resources
87%
IT resources
78%
Course specific equipment and facilities
76%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

98%
UK students
2%
International students
12%
Male students
88%
Female students
56%
2:1 or above
17%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

C
D
C

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Education

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

97%
med
Employed or in further education
38%
low
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

33%
Teaching and educational professionals
16%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers
9%
Customer service occupations

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.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Education

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£16k

£16k

£18k

£18k

£22k

£22k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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