Careers

Graduates with expertise in education and childhood studies are increasingly in demand. The degree will enable you to work across traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries.

Graduate careers include:

• educational leadership and management;
• educational journalism and publishing;
• educational research;
• community education and development;
• early years services;
• youth, charity and educational welfare work.

With further training, graduates can pursue careers in social work and educational psychology.

The diversity of the curriculum means that the degree can also lead to careers in a range of other areas, from human resources to business management.

For those wishing to enter the teaching profession, successful completion of the course will enable students to progress on to a primary PGCE.

The School of Education offers excellent opportunities for further study at postgraduate level, on Masters courses and doctoral programmes.

  

For further information aimed at graduates with expertise in educational studies, please follow the following links:

www.prospects.ac.uk/options_education_job_options.htm

www.prospects.ac.uk/options_education_your_skills.htm

www.prospects.ac.uk/teaching_education_sector.htm

https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobfamily/Pages/default.aspx