Bachelor of Arts - Education Studies with Psychology (Honours)

BA (Hons) Education Studies with Psychology puts the education curriculum first — development, pedagogy, inclusion, policy and school experience — and threads through it the psychology most useful at the whiteboard: learning and memory, motivation, behaviour, and the developmental differences that classroom differentiation exists to serve.

The combination targets the schools workforce’s densest hiring zone: special educational needs and behaviour support, where staff who can read a psychological report and translate it into classroom strategy are persistently scarce, and the course’s assessed school-experience component lets students practise exactly that translation under supervision.

One employment statistic belongs in every counselling session for this pairing: special educational needs and disabilities staffing is the schools workforce’s fastest-growing category nationally, with vacancies persistently outrunning applicants — and this award’s explicit SEND-plus-psychology preparation targets that exact shortage, at the standard £16,800 fee across the recorded September cycles — a demand signal that reliably survives education-budget cycles because statutory obligations drive it, and one visible in any week’s national teaching-vacancy listings.

Counselling clarity on the award’s construction repays itself years later: this is an education degree enriched by psychology, ideal for teaching and support careers, while the professional psychology register runs through the science-led sibling elsewhere in this sheet — a fork families should choose deliberately rather than discover.

Graduates enter SEND support, mentoring and teaching-assistant roles at £19,000–£23,000 with the PGCE conversion year opening qualified teaching beyond, and demand for inclusion-literate staff runs nationwide. Completion confers Graduate Route eligibility at the 18-month post-2026 length, dependants remaining excluded on taught undergraduate visas.