Primary Education 5-11 with QTS

A Brighton Primary Education (5–11 years) degree prepares you to teach children in Key Stage 1 and 2, where you’ll have an early impact on children’s learning and development and help lay the foundations for their academic success and personal growth.

This course leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) – the professional qualification for teachers – enabling you to teach in schools in England. Brighton is graded ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted for its primary initial teacher education, with the report stating that ‘the quality of education and training in the primary phase is exceptional’. Of the students on this course who filled in the National Student Survey 2025, 98% said that teaching staff are good at explaining things and 97% said teaching staff often make the subject engaging.

You’ll be part of a community that helps you grow, no matter what your background. In each year of the degree, you’ll spend time in schools on placement gaining hands-on professional experience. At university you’ll develop your skills, knowledge and confidence in practical activities in our specialist facilities, labs and classrooms. Our inclusive approach to learning will help you go further; we’ll make sure you play to your strengths and learn in ways that suit you best.

Brighton teaching graduates are highly sought after and known for their creative and innovative approaches to teaching – they benefit from excellent employment rates that are consistently above the sector average. We also offer support after you qualify through our ECT programme to help you develop and thrive in your early career.

Top reasons to choose this course

• You’ll train to teach with an Ofsted ‘outstanding’ provider.

• You will learn with a team who have all been teachers themselves.

• School placements in each year of the degree with opportunities in large, small, urban and rural settings.

• Gain knowledge and understanding of the full primary curriculum, with option modules to develop your expertise in the subjects that interest you most.

• Learn in specialist classrooms that replicate those used in schools as well as our curriculum centre with its 30,000 resources for student teachers.

• Our teaching graduates benefit from excellent employment rates that are consistently above the sector average.

• There are no written exams.

Why Brighton is a great place to study Primary Education
Brighton is less than an hour from central London and has been named one of the 50 best cities in the world and the happiest city in the UK by Time Out.