Practice-Based Education

As part of our Careers Guarantee, we offer a unique approach to education that places real, public-facing experience at the heart of your learning.

At UEL, you’ll:

gain real-world experience in one of our Practice-Based Centres
have access to industry-standard facilities that simulate your future working environment
benefit from close collaboration with our 2,500+ industry partners

Practice-Based Education (PBE) gives our students valuable experience and our communities valuable resources to engage with. Through PBE, we’re making a direct impact on the local community while training the next generation of skilled professionals.

What is practice-based education?

Practice-Based Education is an innovative approach to higher education that is designed to make your learning more practical, meaningful and useful in your career journey.

Our mission is to prepare students for the careers of the future - and to ensure that future is healthier, more equitable and more sustainable. PBE is a major engine for this important ambition - giving students unique experiences and local communities access to free services that might otherwise be out of reach.

Our approach to PBE incorporates three key elements:

Practice-Based Centres
Future Campus
Industry Collaboration

Practice-based centres

We have established a number of practice-based centres on our campuses that offer real services to the local community, while allowing students to gain work experience as part of their degree.

While this is a more common approach to training in fields like healthcare and education, we have extended the use of practice-based centres across nearly all of our subjects – including Sport, the Arts, Law, Business, Psychology and more.

Sports Injury Clinic

At our Sports Injury Clinic, Sports Rehabilitation students offer assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation, with supervision from experienced professionals.

Visit the Sports Injury Clinic

Human Performance Clinic

Our Human Performance Clinic is a cutting-edge facility dedicated to advancing health, fitness, and athletic performance through evidence-based testing and expert guidance.

Visit the Human Performance Clinic

SportsDock

SportsDock is an inclusive community space to help improve both physical and mental wellbeing, whether you enjoy training in the gym, playing different sports in our multi-purpose arenas or joining our exercise classes.

Visit SportsDock

The Source

The Source is our brand new arts venue in Stratford’s up-and-coming cultural quarter. For East London Arts students, The Source is as an exciting performance space to showcase work.

Visit The Source

Between People Gallery

Between People Gallery is an institutional art space that showcases higher education group exhibitions as well as invited established artists. It houses a UEL art collection that tours its campuses, as well as managing multiple events and symposiums relating to practice-based research.

Visit the Between People Gallery

Legal Advice Centre

The UEL Legal Advice Centre is a learning facility for students. Law students offer free written legal advice to members of the public.

Visit the Legal Advice Centre

Tax and Accountancy Clinic

This community-focused initiative provides our students with practical and necessary on-the-job experience, at no cost to the East London community.

Visit the Tax and Accountancy Clinic

Business Advice Centre

The Business Advice Centre (BAC) provides free business advice, networking, business plan creation, and workshops to locals, SMEs, and the university community.

Visit the Business Advice Centre

Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth

The Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth has developed innovative, world-leading methods to study how early environments shape early development. We use these insights to provide consultancy, training, and policy advice.

Visit the ISEY

Psychological and Wellbeing Clinic

The psychological and Wellbeing Clinic presents an opportunity for trained postgraduate counselling students to provide mental health support to the community.

Read a recent success story

Future campus

We’ve invested millions in our campus facilities to ensure you’ll have access to world-class resources, whatever you study. We’ve designed our facilities to reflect the real working environment that you'll be employed in, so you can start your career with improved skills and confidence.

Facilities like our Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub accurately simulate a real hospital environment, while our Business students have access to Advanced Analytics and Bloomberg Trading suites. Law students train in a mock court room and our Creative Industries students learn in professional-standard studios, media centres and theatres.

Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
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Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
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Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
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Advanced Analytics and Bloomberg Trading suites
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Advanced Analytics and Bloomberg Trading suites
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Mock courtroom at our USS campus
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Professional-standard media centres
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Professional-standard studios
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Professional-standard theatre
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Digital Fabrication Lab
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Professional space to deliver architecture and visual arts showcases
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Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
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Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
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Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
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Advanced Analytics and Bloomberg Trading suites
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Advanced Analytics and Bloomberg Trading suites
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Mock courtroom at our USS campus
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Professional-standard media centres
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Professional-standard studios
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Professional-standard theatre
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Digital Fabrication Lab
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Professional space to deliver architecture and visual arts showcases
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Industry collaboration

Our partnerships with employers run through our entire educational model – we work with industry to inform our curriculum, we bring industry partners in to teach our students and we collaborate with major organisations on training, research and community engagement.

We’ve grown our list of partners over 800 per cent since 2018, now numbering over 2,500 in almost every sector. These partnerships allow us to deliver a future-proofed, careers-first education that meets the needs of industry and ensures our students are trained for evolving careers.

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