Primary Education (Hons) Plymouth Marjon University

Overview

The Primary Education (Hons) programme of the Plymouth Marjon University offers you many opportunities to work within schools to understand whether you want to develop a career as a teacher or consider other options, with a placement in every year of the course. You will also study primary education in a broad context, considering social and ethical issues as well as the primary curriculum and child development.

You don’t need QTS skills tests prior to taking part in this course. In order to achieve Qualified Teacher Status, you will need to follow this primary education degree with a PGCE or School Direct programme.

Our primary education degree provides students with an academic BA degree that can be used for a wide variety of prospective careers either in the academic sector or elsewhere. If you are certain you want to teach though our BEd Primary Education degree leads to Qualified Teacher Status after three years.

Key facts

On successful completion, you can:

• Begin a PGCE or School Direct qualification to become a Primary School teacher.

• Move into roles in the broad education sector such as educational management, welfare, early years education, community education, youth work, children’s workforce professionals or informal educational environments such as those around tourism or events.

• Use your broad research and critical thinking skills to move into other sectors such as media or publishing.