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Introduction
Location
Location: De Montfort University Leicester UK
Course Length
UK
Institution code: D26
UCAS course code: X300 (Part-time entry: apply direct to DMU)
Duration: Three years full-time, or six years part-time
Start date: September 2023
EU/ INTERNATIONAL
Institution code: D26
UCAS course code: X300
Duration: Three years full-time
Start date: September 2023
Why choose this course?
Key features
 You will benefit from Education 2030 - DMU’s new way of delivering courses, focusing on ensuring the best possible experience for our students. Through block teaching, you will focus on one subject at a time instead of several at once. This means that you will be able to focus closely on each subject and absorb your learning material in more depth, whilst working more closely with your tutors and course mates.
 Engage with the local community and boost your CV through placements and volunteering opportunities in learning environments such as schools, art and learning centres or museums.
 Successful completion of the course provides a foundation to progress onto Initial Teacher Training, enabling you to become a teacher in the UK.
 Select a route through this degree in English Language, English Literature, Creative Writing, History or Drama. These carefully chosen routes will complement and enrich your understanding of your main subject, alongside broadening your skillset to give you a wider range of career paths upon graduation.
 Our students have gained international experience related to their studies through our DMU Global programme. Education Studies students have previously explored museum education in Amsterdam, considered inequality and segregation in New York, and supported refugees in Berlin.
Overview
This programme provides opportunities to engage in many aspects of education, childhood, and life-long learning. You will engage with a range of academic disciplines to discuss, debate and question educational structures, policy, practice and theory.
Our Education Studies programme enhances personal development and depth of thought. We believe in creative and collaborative approaches to evidence-based teaching and learning. The programme will empower students to see their own career path in education environments as individual, ongoing, multi-faceted and with many routes. With social justice and inclusion at its heart, alongside work-based learning opportunities, the programme inspires its staff and students to engage with local, national, and global issues. The programme aspires to achieve sector recognition for its innovative research, engaging content and modes of delivery which are transformative for its staff, students, and the wider community.
Our students explore how people develop through education and, by taking part in placement and volunteering opportunities from the first year of study and throughout their degree programme, gain a broad range of skills that are transferable to careers in socially-orientated professions.
You will cover modules including Perspectives of Education, Childhood, Social Justice and Education, Ways of Learning and Wellbeing, and Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity. The programme will also help you to develop transferable skills and your professional agency through placement opportunities.
Recent graduates have gone on to work in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work, educational publishing, the creative industries or choose to progress to postgraduate level courses, such as our Education Practice MA.
Modules
Year 1
Block 1: An Introduction to Education: History and Academic Discipline
Block 2: Perspectives of Education
Block 3: Childhood, Social Justice and Education OR you can select to study one route from the list below:
 Creative Writing route: Writers Salon
 Drama route: Shifting Stages
 English Language route: Evolving Language
 English Literature route: Introduction to Drama - Shakespeare
 History route: Global Cities
Block 4: Contemporary and Evidence-Based Issues in Education
Year 2
Block 1: Ways of Learning and Wellbeing
Block 2: Research Methods in Education
Block 3 Select one of:
 Applied Performance
 Preparing for Professional Practice (placement module) and Cultural and Educational Transformations
OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
 Creative Writing route: Story Craft
 Drama route: Theatre Revolutions
 English Language route: Sociolinguistics
 English Literature route: Text Technologies
 History route: Humans and the Natural World
Block 4: Inclusion and Diversity
Year 3
Block 1 Select one of:
 Creativity in Education
 Radical Education
 Global and Comparative Education
 Music in the Life of the Primary School
Block 2 Select one of:
 The Practice and Policies of Primary Education
 Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity
 Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity
Block 3 Select one of:
 Adult Learners and Life-long Learning
 Gender and Education
 Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning (placement module)
OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
 Creative Writing route: Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
 Drama route: Performance, Identity and Activism
 English Language route: Language and Identity
 English Literature route: World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond
 History route: The World on Display
Block 4: Dissertation
Routes: You can select to study a route in Block 3 during your first year. When selecting a module for Block 3 in your second year you can opt to remain on your chosen route or return to Education Studies. If you choose to remain with the route, it must be continued in your third year.
Entry Criteria
ENTRY REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
Home Office Share Code
For EU students only.
IF no Qualification
Please provide CV with at least 2 years of work experience, and employee reference letter.
Entry criteria
GCSEs
 Five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including: English and Maths
Plus one of the following:
A Level
 A minimum of 104 UCAS points from 2 or more A levels
T Levels
 Merit
BTEC
 BTEC National Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit or
 BTEC Extended Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit
Alternative qualifications include:
Access to HE Diploma
 Pass in QAA accredited Access to HE overall 112 UCAS tariff with at least 30 Level 3 credits at Merit.
We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course
International Baccalaureate: 24+ points
English language requirements
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 overall is essential.
English language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.
Interview: No
Work experience: No
This course is for students who intend to build a career working with young children. While this is most likely to mean employment in primary schools, it can also include nursery and other pre-school and after-school settings.
 Personal statement selection criteria
 Clear communication skills, including good grammar and spelling
 Information relevant to the course applied for
 Interest in the course demonstrated with explanation and evidence
 If relevant for the course — work and life experience
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check: Yes
You submit an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure application form before starting the course (if you are overseas you will also need to submit a criminal records certificate from your home country), which needs to be cleared in accordance with DMU’s admissions policy. Contact us for up-to-date information.
We strongly advise that you opt for the DBS update service as it is possible that future placement providers may request a recent DBS and not one from the start of the programme. If you decide not to opt for this service then you will have to pay for the DBS again if requested by your placement provided – the university will not cover this cost.
Assessment
ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. INTERNAL ENGLISH TEST if you don't have an English accredited certificate
2. Academic Interview
Career Opportunities
Placements
A key element of Education Studies programmes is for students to gain placement and work-based learning experience. This provides students with a deeper hands-on understanding of educational settings and opportunities to develop their professional identity as well as relate theory with real-life practice.
Graduate Careers
This course helps develop skills that are particularly useful for students who want to build a career working with young children. While this can open up opportunities for employment in primary schools, it can also include nurseries as well as other pre and after-school settings.
Many of our recent graduates have started their careers in teaching, education practice, nurseries, youth work, educational publishing and the creative industries. Graduates can also build on their knowledge with postgraduate opportunities, including an Education Practice MA, which opens up opportunities to work in a number of wider educational environments, including youth and community work, local authority employment, social and educational research, museum and gallery education and early years settings.
DMU Global
This is our innovative international experience programme which aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons – helping you to become a global graduate, equipped to meet the needs of employers across the world. Through DMU Global, we offer a wide range of opportunities including on-campus and UK activities, overseas study, internships, faculty-led field trips and volunteering, as well as Erasmus+ and international exchanges.
Students on this course have previously undertaken trips to summer schools in Turkey, Japan and South Korea, which offered them the opportunity to learn alongside students from around the world, as well as study unique modules and explore the cities of Istanbul, Fukuoka and Seoul. Other trips have given students the opportunity to teach English to schoolchildren in Taiwan, consider inequality and segregation in New York, and support refugees in Berlin.
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