Explore and debate the key issues in education with a career-focused degree. OK, so why should you do Education Studies with us? Because you’ll be able to develop and debate ideas that affect your life (and everyone else’s!), and you’ll get the professional experience that is so advantageous too. Together, we’ll analyse topics that are not just ‘academic’ – they’re in the news and talked about within families and in social contexts. Topics include what should children learn at school, why do some children perform better than others, what is a good teacher and should students have to pay tuition fees? You’ll use ideas from subjects such as sociology, psychology, history, politics and film studies so there’s plenty of variety. Don’t worry if you​’ve not studied all these yet. Our first year course gets you up to speed.

When you graduate you’ll be ready to pursue a career in areas that include teaching (after further study), teaching support (learning mentors, teaching assistants, parental involvement workers), social work (after further study), family support, youth and community work or access general graduate-level positions.