Primary Education Studies (Accelerated Blended Learning)

Shape the future of education while broadening your career options. Delve into many different subjects with a focus on Primary-age children.

Whether you want to start or advance a career in primary education, or work in an adjacent field, you’ll study education history, policy and the way children are taught today, as well as the core subjects: reading, writing, maths and science.

You’ll also explore related areas such as health, welfare, child psychology and children’s rights, gain an insight into special educational needs provision, and observe teaching in local schools.

• Join the only new accredited university provider of teacher training in the UK.

• Study at a university ranked 13th in the country for Education in the Guardian League Table 2025.

• Develop your understanding of primary education and gain versatile knowledge and skills.

• Choose to study over two or three years, with both face-to-face and hybrid learning options available.

• Take part in Live Briefs to gain work experience and build your network.

• Study at a university with over 20 years’ experience of training education professionals.

Careers

Our BA (Hons) Primary Education Studies is the first step on your career path to working with primary-aged children and their families.

You might also want to continue on to a Masters course, such as one of our MA Education degrees, which include options to specialise in leadership and management, SEND, and Montessori settings, or our PGCE. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship to get 20% off your fees.

If you’re interested in teaching, our degree will prepare you for postgraduate initial teacher training programmes. We work with local ITT providers who actively recruit our students to School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITTs), so you’ll be well prepared for interviews throughout your degree.

Teaching

At levels 4 and 5, we’ll explore the history of, and current issues affecting education. We’ll also look at core subject areas and ways of engaging children with a range of abilities and needs as a teacher.

At Level 6, we’ll focus on sustainability and its intersection with subjects such as arts and drama, design and technology, PE, music, and modern foreign languages. You’ll also study special educational needs and disability (SEND), inclusion and common developmental difficulties, and complete an independent research project on a relevant topic of your choice.

Year 1: English and the Arts in Primary Education; Journey Through Life: Stages of Human Development; Safeguarding and Wellbeing; Research Foundations; The Power of Connection: Building Strong Educational Relationships; Into ARU. Year 2: STEM Pedagogy and Classroom Practice; Equity in Education: Understanding Identity and Social Justice; Learning Theories in Education; Educational Research Methods; Ruskin Module. Year 3: Creative and Sustainable Pedagogies in Primary Humanities; Neurodiversity and Inclusion: Strategies for Effective Learning; Education in the Digital Age: Policy, Theory and Global Trends; Leadership and Enterprise; Undergraduate Major Project. Modules are subject to change and availability, and may vary by location.

You’ll show your progress through many different methods, including: poster presentations, group presentations, essays, reflective logs or commentaries, reports, and your Specialist Focus Project (dissertation by literature review).

You'll also have opportunities for informal (formative) assessment, to ensure you receive the necessary support to be an active learner and contribute to our learning community in lectures, seminars or online groups. Your tutors will monitor individual, group and cohort learning in order to personalise teaching approaches so that you learn in the way that is most suited to you.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS