Education (Top-up)

This BA (Hons) Education course (with optional Early Years pathway) has been designed and developed as a final ‘top-up’ year progression route for work-based students who have completed a foundation degree in Education or Early Childhood Studies.

The course operates a pathway model which enables you to choose a broad study of Education or focus on Early Years provision and practice.

If you are an Early Years practitioner, member of support staff (such as a teaching assistant) or a volunteer in an educational setting and are engaged in work with children and young people, then this course could be for you.

The course focuses on you as a learning practitioner. You’ll develop your skills as a reflective practitioner, making connections between your professional practice and academic study. It’s designed to be flexible to your personalised needs, interests and experience and builds on current and previous practice within your workplace setting.

It will deepen your professional understanding and subject knowledge and build your self-confidence and belief in yourself as a professional learning practitioner.

The course requires online attendance for teaching sessions, seminars and tutorials and is designed to fit around your work (paid or voluntary) within an educational setting.

Teaching sessions are delivered online for four hours per week over the course of 3 semesters.

Key features of the course:

• Choose to study modules with a specific focus on Early Years provision and practice, or modules with a more general focus on Education. There are separate pathways to the same degree.
• A focus on you as a learning practitioner, helping you to build self-confidence, self-knowledge and self-belief, and an understanding of your own skills, attributes and abilities.
• A flexible approach to learning using both online teaching sessions for convenience and optional face-to-face seminars and tutorials for academic support.
• Opportunities to choose the context for your module assessments which are linked to your own practice within your own setting.

This course is available at both our Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield campuses. It is delivered online but should you choose to attend the optional face-to-face tutorial sessions, these will be based at the campus you apply to. The Early Years specialist pathway is only available at our Stoke-on-Trent campus.

The course operates a pathway model which enables you to choose a broad study of Education or focus on Early Years provision and practice.

If you are an Early Years practitioner, member of support staff (such as a teaching assistant) or a volunteer in an educational setting and are engaged in work with children and young people, then this course could be for you.

The course focuses on you as a learning practitioner. You’ll develop your skills as a reflective practitioner, making connections between your professional practice and academic study. It’s designed to be flexible to your personalised needs, interests and experience and builds on current and previous practice within your workplace setting.

It will deepen your professional understanding and subject knowledge and build your self-confidence and belief in yourself as a professional learning practitioner.

The course requires online attendance for teaching sessions, seminars and tutorials and is designed to fit around your work (paid or voluntary) within an educational setting.

Teaching sessions are delivered online for four hours per week over the course of 3 semesters.

Key features of the course:

• Choose to study modules with a specific focus on Early Years provision and practice, or modules with a more general focus on Education. There are separate pathways to the same degree.
• A focus on you as a learning practitioner, helping you to build self-confidence, self-knowledge and self-belief, and an understanding of your own skills, attributes and abilities.
• A flexible approach to learning using both online teaching sessions for convenience and optional face-to-face seminars and tutorials for academic support.
• Opportunities to choose the context for your module assessments which are linked to your own practice within your own setting.

This course is available at both our Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield campuses. It is delivered online but should you choose to attend the optional face-to-face tutorial sessions, these will be based at the campus you apply to. The Early Years specialist pathway is only available at our Stoke-on-Trent campus.

This course is designed to enhance your career opportunities, so work-based reflection and development forms a major part of the overall course content.

Throughout the course, you’ll engage in:

• Work-based tasks and research
• Creation of resources to support learning
• Observation of the practice of professionals
• Reflection on organisational practice
• Wider understanding of sector practice

You’ll develop a broad understanding an knowledge of how education can take place in a variety of organisations and locations, and how education can be delivered outside of the traditional classroom to enhance the learning journey.

As part of the course you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a small-scale research project on a topic that is relevant to your current practice and interests.

Throughout the programme you’ll be encouraged to reflect critically; to listen carefully to the views of others; to question values and opinions; to investigate evidence and you’re your own informed conclusions. You’ll be encouraged to develop as an independent learner and to extend your skills of collaborating and negotiation.

This course is designed to enhance your career opportunities, so work-based reflection and development forms a major part of the overall course content.

Throughout the course, you’ll engage in:

• Work-based tasks and research
• Creation of resources to support learning
• Observation of the practice of professionals
• Reflection on organisational practice
• Wider understanding of sector practice

You’ll develop a broad understanding an knowledge of how education can take place in a variety of organisations and locations, and how education can be delivered outside of the traditional classroom to enhance the learning journey.

As part of the course you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a small-scale research project on a topic that is relevant to your current practice and interests.

Throughout the programme you’ll be encouraged to reflect critically; to listen carefully to the views of others; to question values and opinions; to investigate evidence and you’re your own informed conclusions. You’ll be encouraged to develop as an independent learner and to extend your skills of collaborating and negotiation.