Bachelor of Arts - Education Studies (Honours)

BA (Hons) Education Studies examines how societies teach and learn: philosophies and psychology of education, child and adolescent development, curriculum and assessment, inclusion and special educational needs, education policy and international comparison, developed across three years toward a dissertation many students anchor in school-based inquiry.

The course deliberately keeps education’s big questions and daily practice in one frame — students analyse policy while also observing real classrooms through structured school experience, building the reflective evidence base that both PGCE selection panels and school employers examine — and the SEND strand answers the schools workforce’s most acute current demand.

The structured school-experience component repays deliberate use: students who spread their placements across contrasting settings — primary and secondary, mainstream and special, urban and suburban — graduate with the comparative classroom evidence that PGCE interviews probe hardest, and Leicester’s unusually varied school landscape makes that spread achievable within a single bus network at the £16,800 faculty rate — an accessibility advantage students in campus-town universities genuinely lack.

Assessment favours applied production alongside essays: learning-resource design, observation reports, policy briefings and a research project with genuine method, so graduates leave holding artefacts that education interviews recognise rather than theory alone.

Destinations divide between the classroom track — teaching assistant roles then PGCE — and education’s wider economy of administration, mentoring, EdTech and community learning, entering at £19,000–£23,000. The honours award carries Graduate Route rights — 18 months under the rules applying to current applicants’ graduation dates — with dependants excluded across taught study.