Education Human Resource Development and Training BA(Hons)

About the course

The effective training and development of people is essential in educational organisations and businesses. This Education, Human Resource Development and Training BA(Hons) course will give you the chance to develop the skills and confidence needed to work within Human Resource departments. You’ll also be ready, following graduation, to potentially pursue other careers focused on training and development.

Why study Education, Human Resource Development and Training BA(Hons)

During your time on this course, we’ll support you to develop your theoretical knowledge and practical skills. You’ll also gain a better understanding of different learning cultures and styles, and motivation theories.

Following this degree, you’ll be ready to work confidently and efficiently alongside others, to meet individuals’ and organisational needs and how to develop personnel and teams.

We’ll support you to develop your ability to critically reflect on your own personal educational development and to plan a bespoke training programme suitable for your chosen career. During your time with us, you’ll be able to access our extensive professional and academic network in education, education studies and human resources.

Targeted at those who work in the industry and want to apply some of their skills to Human Resources (HR), this course will help you better understand wellbeing, while developing the skills needed to build quick processes and inspire teams.

You’ll get access to our resources for life, too, helping you hone your skills within human resource development, education, and development studies. Following this course, you might go on to work in a wide range of careers, or pursue further education in, for example:

• Human resources management/strategy
• Teaching
• Human resource development
• Community studies
• Welfare
• Leadership/management studies.

Education at Huddersfield is top in Yorkshire* for Assessment and Feedback, too, scoring 90 per cent based on experimental statistics from the National Student Survey 2023.

The following positive scores combined to produce this theme: 89 per cent of students felt the marking criteria used to assess their work were clear, 85 per cent felt the marking and assessment on their course had been fair, 93 per cent felt assessments allowed them to demonstrate what they have learned, 96 per cent felt they received assessment feedback on time and 89 per cent felt feedback helped them to improve their work.

*Institutions in Yorkshire with turnover of over £100 million.

Entry requirements

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.

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