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Why study Education in a
joint honours degree?

Studying education gives you the chance to explore the systems and structures that provide the framework for education today, looking at both formal and informal learning across a range of life stages.

By developing a critically informed understanding of education, you’ll also gain transferable skills that you will be able to apply to a range of sectors in roles covering youth work and education services.

What will I learn?

You’ll examine education in its widest contexts. You’ll develop an awareness of the aims and values of education and its relationship to society, and how government ideology and policies shape this. You will examine the ways which formal education settings address inclusion, and look at education in the UK and internationally. You’ll also gain a critical perspective of educational theory, policy and practice.

Placements

During your second year, your tutor will help you to find a placement matching an area of your specific interest, which may reflect the education part of your degree or the other subject.

Career options

Areas in which you may be able to apply your knowledge of education theory include leisure services, youth and community work, educational management and administration, the museums, libraries and galleries education services, and educational research. Employment opportunities also include non-government organisations concerned with overseas development, environmental change and sustainable development.

To teach in a school, you need to attain Qualifed Teacher Status (QTS). After successfully gaining a BA(Hons) or BSc(Hons) degree, you may be eligible to apply to be considered for further study to gain QTS. Postgraduate teacher training courses last for one year full-time.

Who will teach me?

Our lecturers are experienced and current practitioners. We have an excellent reputation for developing flexible, high quality programmes, which respond to both local employer needs and emerging national strategies. The University of Brighton’s School of Education has been rated outstanding in consecutive years by Ofsted, and our primary education provision has the highest quality rating (category A) as awarded by the Training and Development Agency (TDA).

Key staff 

“My background in teacher training has enabled me to contribute towards the shaping of young people’s experiences of education and a role that I feel privileged to occupy. Education is something that affects us all and it can impact on the way we see the world and the choices we make. You will be encouraged to challenge those experiences and emerge with your own personal philosophy of what education is, and should be, about.”

Jane Cawdell, education pathway leader

 

 

Module in focus

Systems and Structures in Education

This first-year module introduces students to the ways in which education has been organised in England, both in the present and in the past. It examines the impact that changes in educational policy have had on how education is perceived and managed as a result of the ideologies of successive governments.

Discussion is a key feature of the module as students relate their own experiences of education to the current systems and structures in place, in order to begin to develop their own philosophy of what education is, and should be, about.