Education Studies BA (Hons)

The core concepts, theory and values of our Education Studies programme are embedded throughout the course.

• In your first year, you will learn how different disciplines, such as Sociology, History and Psychology, all approach the same subject: Education.
• Throughout your second year you will evaluate what a ‘quality’ education means, understanding diverse and conflicting viewpoints.
• You will spend your third year preparing to be an educational change-maker, by listening to different voices, learning to be inclusive, and developing the vision to lead practice.

Learning to understand and take part in research is a key element of our course

• The first year of studies supports you to read like a researcher, discovering data and using library catalogues to review literature.
• In your second year, you will learn how to design ethical research projects by engaging with a range of methodologies.
• In your final year, you will work independently on your own dissertation, demonstrating reflexive and inclusive research in education.

The third key element of the Education Studies programme are learning practices and how they impact the real-life people learners you encounter.

• In your first year, you will learn who has experienced educational inequality, normativity and exclusion throughout education’s past and present.
• Your second year will examine education in the context of the climate emergency to consider who will experience education inclusively and equitably in the future.
• Your final year will examine the philosophy and values of a socially just world, taking a more-than-human approach to education.

We have a wide range of optional modules which allow you to specialise your knowledge to focus on your individual interests.

• In your first year, you can choose to study creativity in education or children’s wellbeing in digital and social media.
• In your second year, your options include psychology of teaching and learning or safeguarding in education.
• In your third year, you can opt to study drama and education, the education of the sociological imagination or weaponised education.
• Your options can also include modules in our Centre for Academic English and Skills and the opportunity to qualify as a professional tutor.

Mandatory Modules

• The What and Why of Education Studies
• Using Literature to Initiate Research: From the Library to the Page
• Education’s Past, Present and Future: Mapping Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Specialist Optional Modules

• ‘What If?’ Curriculum: Creativity and education
• Children and Young People’s Wellbeing: Exploring digital and social media
• Option modules from the Centre for Academic English and Skills.

Mandatory Modules

• Whose Standards? (Re)forming quality for education
• Navigating the Research Journey: Ethics, methodology and research design
• Sustainable Futures: Educating for a shared world

Specialist Optional Modules

• The Psychology of Teaching and Learning
• Safeguarding in Education: Learning lessons
• Education @ Work 1: Placement and work-based learning
• Option modules from the Centre for Academic English and Skills

Mandatory Modules

• Listener, Learner, Leader: Becoming education change-makers
• Dissertation: Your independent study of education
• Developing Personal Values and Philosophy in Education

Specialist Optional Modules

• Education @ Work 2: Placement and work-based learning 
• Education and the Sociological Imagination 
• Theatre & Education 
• Ideology and Education: Sites of struggle and stories of emancipation 

UK and EU students

The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £9,535 per year for new and continuing students. 

For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

International students

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £16,700 per year.

For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

UK and EU students

The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £1,190.83 per 15-credit module, £1,587.77 per 20-credit module, £2,381.66 per 30-credit module, £3,175.55 per 40-credit module, £3,572.50 per 45-credit module and £4,763.32 per 60 credit module for new and continuing students.

For more details on course pages, please visit our course fees page.

Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses.

If your course offers a placement opportunity, you may need to pay for an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

For international opportunities, there will be costs involved depending on the nature of the opportunity.

Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience. Our halls of residence are home to friendly student communities, making them great places to live and study.

We have over 1,000 rooms across our range of student halls. With rooms to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Halls' at £131 per week to 'Ensuite Premium Halls' at £228 per week (2025/26 prices).

For full details visit our accommodation page.