Programme summary for B A (Hons) Education and Community Development

This degree prepares you for education-related careers in the public or private sectors such as teaching, community work, or working in the caring professions.

About the programme

Education and community development refers to education in the broadest sense encompassing both informal and formal education contexts. The programme is about exploring the values that underpin teaching and learning in informal contexts, the approaches and methods used in informal contexts, and the application of these in formal contexts as well. In addition to modules about issues of diversity, inclusion, citizenship and social justice in education, you will learn about communities as sites of learning, government policy relating to communities, and practical skills for individual and community transformation.

CRB check

This programme involves working closely with children and/or vulnerable adults. Applicants are therefore subject to a satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) Enhanced Disclosure check. If you have any queries regarding this procedure, please contact Lucy Watson on +44 (0) 20 8223 6271 or l.watson@uel.ac.uk

Programme structure

Students may study full-time or part-time to complete the BA Education and Community Development degree. A full-time programme would typically take three academic years to complete with students taking six modules per year. If studying part-time, students would take between two and four modules per year. The BA EDUCOM degree programme can be taken as either a single honours or a combined honours degree.

Career opportunities

Successful completion of the programme will prepare you to proceed to a career carrying out community development work in a wide range of contexts including the voluntary sector, local government, and health & social services as well as education. With this degree, you can also apply for the Primary PGCE programme school teaching or continue your studies at master’s level.

Support

The team who deliver Education and Community Development in the Cass School of Educaiton have knowledge and experience in the field from all sectors and are experienced teachers and researchers.

For each of the modules of learning guides are provided which detail the requirements for attendance, participation, and assessment as well as academic stqandards and conventions that students are expected to meet and follow.

Academic Writing and Study Skills modules are a core part of the programme. Student experiences and views are taken in to account in the development of the programme by means of student elected representatives who present student views to the degree programme committee which reports, in turn, to the Field of Education and Community Committee.

Admission

200 UCAS tariff points

If you are entering from school or college the basic entry requirement is usually a minimum of two A level subjects, (or equivalent e.g. Baccalaureate, Irish Highers, GNVQ or BTEC awards) and five GCSEs at Grade C.

For all programmes we welcome mature students who may not have formal qualifications. Their prior learning and experience will be taken into account as will their attendance at a recognised Access to Higher Education or Access to a Teaching programme.

The University of East London actively promotes and celebrates equality and diversity and positively welcomes applicants regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality, age, religion or social class.