Education - Primary (Hons) University of Stirling

Overview

This Education - Primary (Hons)  BA, BSc degree from the University of Stirling will prepare you to teach across the whole curriculum and primary age range, and also enable you to develop a specialism in a particular area.

Key facts

•  In the Bachelor of Education - Primary (Hons) from University of Stirling you can choose from these subject specialisms:
• Early Years
• The Environment
• Modern Languages
• Inclusive Practice
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• You’ll be taught by world-leading academics and outstanding teachers who have strong partnerships with local schools. This ensures you can access cutting-edge practice and research throughout your primary teaching degree. Our pioneering approach of studying education with a subject specialism, gives you the time to excel in teaching, critically reflect and grow in confidence.
• In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, our Educational research had the highest quality of research outputs of any Scottish university, with 100% rated either world-leading or internationally excellent.
• The majority of our graduates enter the Scottish Teacher Induction Scheme (TIS), which guarantees you employment for one year as a newly qualified teacher in a Scottish Local Authority school.*Your teaching degree will also qualify you to enter into a wide variety of other professional roles, such as corporate training and development, museum and leisure education, educational psychology, translation or media.The confidence, communication and professional skills developed over a teaching degree, are transferable into other careers such as the media, PR and training roles.Alternatively, you may choose to continue your education with a postgraduate degree or undertake doctoral research, leading to the award of a PhD.

Accreditation

General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)