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All courses in Education

Explore all the undergraduate qualifications we offer, from certificates through to diplomas and degrees, in education.

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Honours Degrees (6)

  1. BA (Honours) Education Studies (Primary)
  2. BSc (Honours) Mathematics and its Learning
  3. BSc (Honours) Sport, Fitness and Coaching
  4. BA (Honours) Childhood and Youth Studies
  5. BA (Honours) Early Childhood
  6. BA/BSc (Honours) Open degree

Top-up Degrees (1)

Top-up your existing Diploma of Higher Education or Foundation Degree to an Honours Degree in the same subject.

  1. Top-up BA (Honours) Early Childhood

Diplomas of Higher Education (5)

  1. Diploma of Higher Education in Education Studies (Primary)
  2. Diploma of Higher Education in Childhood and Youth Studies
  3. Diploma of Higher Education in Sport and Fitness
  4. Diploma of Higher Education in Early Childhood
  5. Diploma of Higher Education Open

Certificates of Higher Education (6)

  1. Certificate of Higher Education in Sport, Fitness and Management
  2. Certificate of Higher Education in Childhood and Youth Studies
  3. Certificate of Higher Education in Education Studies (Primary)
  4. Certificate of Higher Education in Children and Families
  5. Certificate of Higher Education in Early Childhood
  6. Certificate of Higher Education Open

Education modules

OU level 1

  1. English for academic purposes online
  2. Exploring perspectives on young children's lives and learning
  3. Introducing health and social care
  4. Introducing the social sciences
  5. Introduction to childhood studies and child psychology
  6. Learning and teaching in the primary years
  7. Learning to teach languages in primary schools (beginners' Chinese)
  8. Learning to teach languages in primary schools (beginners' German)
  9. Learning to teach languages in primary schools (beginners' Spanish)
  10. Learning to teach languages in primary schools (beginners’ French)
  11. Learning to teach languages in primary schools part 2
  12. Young children's play and creativity

OU level 2

  1. Developing subject knowledge for the primary years
  2. Listening to young children: critical reflections
  3. Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary
  4. Making a difference: working with children and young people
  5. Psychology of childhood and youth

OU level 3

  1. Comparative and international studies in primary education
  2. Contemporary research with children and young people
  3. Language, literature and childhood
  4. Learning and doing algebra
  5. Learning and doing geometry
  6. Mathematical thinking in schools
  7. Young lives, parenting and families

Access modules

  1. Arts and languages Access module
  2. Arts and languages Access module: fast track
  3. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module
  4. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module: fast track
  5. Science, technology and maths Access module
  6. Science, technology and maths Access module: fast track