Education (Professional Placement Year)

Change lives through education on this BA Education degree.

• Explore important current themes such as social justice, inclusion, wellbeing, sustainability, and education policy.

• Develop your professional skills through work placements and research projects that focus on real world problems.

• Draw on sociology, psychology and philosophy to examine diverse aspects of education from a national and global perspective.

Are you passionate about changing lives through education? Our innovative Education course will allow you to develop a portfolio of skills that employers look for, such as creative thinking, taking initiative, networking, and problem solving.

You’ll have opportunities to explore a range of education careers and develop professional skills by putting your knowledge into practice through work placements and research projects focused on real-world problems.

Whether you want to be an educator, policy-maker or researcher, continue your studies with teacher training or postgraduate study, or dive straight into a graduate trainee scheme, this degree in education can form the basis of a career in public service.

More about the Professional Placement Year
A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in multiple placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team.