Education Studies BA Honours

Why choose Education Studies BA Honours at Middlesex?

The education sector requires a skilled and confident workforce with a range of academic knowledge, transferrable skills, practical experience and critical reflection skills.

This ambitious and challenging course responds to sector-wide demands, by offering confident graduates with a broad range of academic knowledge, transferrable skills, practical experience, professional values and critical reflection skills relating to the Education sector and becoming an education professional.

This course will prepare you for employment both within the education sector and other sectors working with children and young people.

What you will gain

You will gain a wealth of knowledge of and experiences in the education sector, including critical knowledge around current Education policy, practice and issues, and through experiences such as undertaking a placement in an educational setting, learning how to plan and deliver a classroom session, as well as public speaking skills.

Typically, graduates go on to careers in educational settings, training programmes, and charities. It's also a route into a teaching role through a Primary or Senior PGCE.

You will be studying on a course with an excellent reputation and a high student satisfaction rate:

• 89% of students were positive about the learning resources and facilities on their course – National Student Survey (NSS) 2023
• We are in the top 100 of Young Universities in the world for Education – Times Higher Education, 2022.

We have over 145 years of experience delivering professional, creative and technical education that prepares students – like you – for success in global careers, so find out more today.

What you will learn

We blend theory and practice to extend and apply your knowledge, skills and understanding of education studies throughout your time with us. You’ll be taught by experienced academics who are research leaders across areas of diversity, child development, multilingualism and education. This course draws from a range of disciplines so you’ll learn about subjects such as history, sociology, law, and philosophy, and how they relate to education.

Gaining real-life experience is an important part of your learning. The course’s timetable is specifically arranged to give you the opportunity to arrange voluntary or paid work experience or shorter placements. You’ll receive a Placement Planning Pack to help with structuring and planning for work experience, ensuring you get the most out of it. Additionally, you’ll undertake a practitioner-based module, set within a workplace, and build a digital portfolio that showcases the development of your knowledge and skills throughout the course.

The strong themes of social justice and inclusion running through the course will enable you to feel confident to challenge inequality, to promote children’s and young people’s rights, and to embrace diversity and inclusion.

Your learning will also be supported by:

• Highly experienced, supportive and approachable tutors who will encourage you to understand, apply and debate the material from this course
• A personal tutor and committed student learning and graduate academic assistants who have studied your subject and can support you based on their own experience
• Encouragement to develop your graduate and employability skills, such as professionalism, reflection, communication skills and teamwork, to develop a value-led professional identity.

Careers

How can the Education Studies BA support your career?

Graduating from the course you’ll be a reflexive, confident, highly skilled and inclusive education professional with clear career aspirations and goals. Our graduates enter a wide range of highly skilled professional careers and destinations.

Students completing the programme may apply for the PGCE / QTS Training in Education (Primary and Early Years) or related professional programmes, such as Social Work and Youth Work. Students also progress onto other roles in the Education sector, including careers in Special Educational Needs support services, unqualified teaching positions in independent and free schools, teaching assistant roles in Primary and Higher Education, Local Authority education administration and Parenting Support programmes. Others seeking a more academic or research route may continue to develop their careers studying for master's programmes, including our very own MA programme or taking up work as research assistants.

Typically, graduates go on to careers in a range of educational settings or work for charities and other organisations in a range of educational, supportive, staff development or administrative roles.

The course is an ideal preparation for a route into Teacher Teaching when combined with a subsequent Primary or Secondary PGCE qualification. Graduates opt for other professional training programmes working with children and families, such as Social Work, Nursing, Speech Therapy, Youth Work etc.

Others seeking a more academic or research route may continue to develop their careers by choosing postgraduate studies, such as our own MA in Education and Childhood in Diverse Societies, or seek employment as research assistants.

We help you develop employability skills and this is often built into the modules from the start. These skills, sometimes referred to as soft skills, include reflection, professional development and teamwork.

MDXworks

Our employability service, MDXworks will launch you into the world of work from the beginning of your course, with placements, projects and networking opportunities through our 1000+ links with industry and big-name employers in London and globally.

Global network

You’ll study with students from 122 countries who’ll hopefully become part of your global network. And after you graduate, we'll still support you through our alumni network to help you progress in your chosen career.

Placements

In your second year, you’ll undertake a 40 hour placement, ideally over a number of weeks. This enables you to assess and develop your professional skills and knowledge base, as well as enabling you to identify priority areas for professional development to achieve your career goals. Supported by your tutors, you'll choose an educational setting of your own choice, helping to support your personalised learning.

It is strongly recommended that you also gain additional work/ voluntary experience in educational settings throughout the programme to give you further opportunities to gain broader experiences to enhance your employability and to enable you to reach your career goals. The timetable is arranged to permit students to volunteer for at least 1 day a week during the academic year. There may also be opportunities to find a block work experience (e.g. over the summer break).