Education with a Foundation Year BA (Hons)

Education with a Foundation Year at Swansea is a flexible degree offering a wide-range of specialist modules that allow you to tailor your future career goals while developing your individual interests.<br/><br/>Study draws on the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, history and the social sciences focusing on understanding how people learn and how structures of education operate to foster life-long learning and personal development.<br/><br/>The degree is designed for UK, EU and international students, and it considers education in a wide context – it is not confined to formal primary and secondary school settings, but also covers further and higher education, social services, local and national government, and education in the community.<br/><br/>Our Education degree provides an ideal route into careers such as early years teaching, play therapy, teaching English as a foreign language, education administration, community development work, education research, and roles in local authorities, community education and education publishing.<br/><br/>Education at Swansea is ranked:<br/>- Top 20 in the UK for Research Quality (Complete University Guide 2024)<br/><br/><br/>- 95% of graduates in employment &/or study, or doing other activities, such as travelling, 15 months after leaving Swansea University (HESA 2023)<br/><br/><br/>You will have the opportunity to undertake work placements in organisations such as schools, local authorities, businesses and charities to enhance your student experience and your career prospects. You will use a variety of learning approaches, which will help you develop a range of practical and transferable skills in observation, interpretation, information processing and presentation, all of which are highly valued by employers. <br/><br/>You will need an additional Initial Teacher Education (ITE) or Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) qualification to become a teacher.