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Introduction
Why choose this course?
Key features
 Benefit from Education 2030, where a simplified ‘block learning’ timetable means you will study one subject at a time and have more time to engage with your learning, receive faster feedback and enjoy a better study-life balance.
 Learn about the connections between Psychology and Education with the flexibility to specialise in your areas of interest through option modules. Modules you can choose from include Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and Counselling Psychology.
 Successful completion of the course provides a foundation to progress onto Initial Teacher Training, enabling you to become a teacher in the UK.
 Take part in our student exchange programme for the opportunity to study in Spain, Finland or Denmark, or our Placement or Enterprise years between the second and third year of your course.
 Engage with the local community and boost your CV through placements and volunteering opportunities at schools, art and learning centres or museums.
 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, life-long learning and psychology.
Education Studies with Psychology provides you with the opportunity to discuss, debate and question educational structures, policy, practice and theory. While also providing you with the opportunity to study the mind and how it shapes and influences behaviour.
You will study core areas including biological, cognitive, developmental and social psychology, and you will cover personality and intelligence. You will also study core modules which focus on the History of Education, Perspectives of Education, Ways of Learning and Wellbeing, Inclusion and Diversity, while also being able to choose modules which focus on topics such as Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity, Radical Education, Global Education and Creativity in Education.
If you want to make a positive change to young people’s lives and society as a whole, then studying this course is your first step.
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 in Education
Block 3: Applied Psychology
Block 4: Contemporary and evidence-based issues in Education
Year 2
Block 1: Understanding Learning and Wellbeing
Block 2: Researching Education
Block 3: Psychology and Mental Health
Block 3: Psychology of Social Problems
Block 4: Inclusion and Diversity
Optional
Placement Year or Enterprise Placement Year
Year 3
Block 1: one module from:
 Creativity in Education
 Radical Education
 Global and Comparative Education
 Music in the Life of Primary Schools
Block 2: one module from:
 The Practice and Policies of Primary Education
 Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity
 Education and Equality: Race, Ethnicity and Social Class
Block 3: two modules from:
 Human Sexual and Reproductive Behaviours
 Forensic Psychology
 Psychology of Health & Illness
 Psychology of Eating Behaviour
 Perception
 Psychology and Education
 Cyberpsychology
Block 4: Dissertation
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 Language or English Literature
Plus one of the following:
A levels
 A minimum of 104 UCAS points from at least two A levels
T Levels
 Merit
BTEC
 BTEC National Diploma - Distinction/Merit/Merit
 BTEC Extended Diploma - Distinction/Merit/Merit
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
Interview: No
Work experience: No
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
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.
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 our Education Studies programme is for students to gain placement and work-based learning experience. This helps provide you with first-hand knowledge and experience of educational settings and opportunities to apply the theory from your studies to real-world contexts.
In the first year, you will be complete a placement in an educational setting of your choice. You are also offered an optional placement module in your second and third years, as well as have the opportunity to study a number of modules that are embedded with work-based field trips and placement experiences.
Graduate Careers
This course helps develop skills that are invaluable for graduates who want to build a career working with young people and 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 and early years settings.
DMU Global
Our innovative international experience programme DMU Global aims to enrich studies, broaden cultural horizons and develop key skills valued by employers.
Through DMU Global, we offer an exciting mix of overseas, on-campus and online international experiences, including the opportunity to study or work abroad for up to a year.
Through DMU Global previous students have taught English to school children in Thailand and explored diversity and inequalities in Florida.
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