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.
Why ARU?
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 blended 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.
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.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
Anglia Ruskin University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
See why these ratings were awarded
What does this TEF outcome mean?
The following entry points are available for this course:
You are required to be working in a school or other education setting and written confirmation from your current employer is needed. This can be paid or unpaid work of 0.8 FTE with access to a teaching setting in term time of 0.5 FTE.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
This report uses your grades to show how students with similar results have done when applying to this course in the past. Sometimes, there isn’t data for every possible set of grades. When that happens, universities and colleges occasionally fill in the gaps for sets of grades that are typically accepted.
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|---|---|
| England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland | £12060 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
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