Education Studies

Are you ready for a future in education but want to keep your career options open? Our dynamic BA (Hons) Education Studies degree lets you do just that. You will take learning beyond the classroom, as you study education in its broadest sense. This unique course covers early years through to adult education - exploring a diverse range of subject areas, including sociology, policy, globalisation, technology, and social justice.

With a wide range of modules, you will have the freedom to build your own degree in line with your specific interests and career aims. Topics include education with a teaching focus; art, culture and heritage; youth studies and globalisation.

From day one, we will help you give real-life context to your studies and gain hands-on experience. Enhanced work-based learning and placement opportunities available through the Nottingham Institute of Education (NIoE) will give you industry experience - making you even more attractive to future employers. So, whether you’re new to the world of work or are planning a career change, you will be well prepared with our extensive network of 600 partnerships in settings, schools, colleges and the community.

Why study Education Studies at NTU?

• You have the freedom to build your own degree with the choice of a wide range of modules in line with your specific interests and career aims.

• Gain hands-on experience throughout your degree in a variety of educational employment roles through over 600 partnerships with local settings, schools, colleges and organisations.

• Work-based learning opportunities are embedded throughout the course. You will have the opportunity to access a placement experience in Year One, Two and Three.

• In Year Three, achieve up to 40 integrated credits at level 7, allowing you to submit work at Masters level, giving you the opportunity to transition APAL onto a part-time Masters in education programme.

Course Modules

Our BA (Hons) Education Studies degree explores how people develop and learn throughout their lives. You will analyse education, drawing upon a range of disciplines, including sociology, policy, globalisation, technology and social justice.

You will examine how people have experienced education and how society and culture influence what is taught and how. Throughout the course, you will consider education as being something that happens in both classroom and community contexts. Government policy and initiatives will be explored to identify how policy affects local, national and international educational practices, as well as peoples’ life chances.

Each year has a key focus that will allow you to think as an educationalist.

Here’s a breakdown of the core and optional modules you’ll be studying across your course:

Year One modules include:

• Lifelong Learning & Development

• Outdoor Learning

• Academic Writing and Study Skills

• What is Education?

• Whose Responsibility is Inclusion?

• Developing Learning

Year Two modules include:

• Experiential Learning & Placement

• Education Policy and Practice

• Research Methods in Education

• Optional modules include: Learning through Arts & Culture; Navigating the Classroom and Curriculum; Youth Health & Well-being; Inclusive Education in a Global World; Sociology of Education; Comparative and International Education; Education and Young People; and Object-based Learning: Combining Arts & Culture with the Classroom.

In your Third Year, you'll complete a year-long sandwich placement where you'll get the opportunity to apply your knowledge in the real world.

Final Year modules include:

• Research Project: Research in Education

• Social Justice in Education

• Education and Digital Technology

• Optional modules include: Race, Media and Popular Culture; Special and Inclusive Education; Advice and Guidance in Practice; Forced migration and education: Key issues; Global Citizenship and Education for Sustainable Development; Radical Education; Society, Culture and Identity; and Education in a Globalised World.

There are no formal exams during this course; we use a variety of assessment types to allow you to demonstrate your strengths across a number of skill sets.