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We offer professionally recognised qualifications and modules in education for those working or aiming to work in Education and are designed to suit a variety of needs. They are equally relevant if you're starting a career in education, consolidating and extending existing expertise and skills or preparing you for your future career development. At a postgraduate level we offer the Masters in Education which supports your skill development in education or a related field.
In addition to the new knowledge, skills and confidence you will gain, OU study opens up many worthwhile career and personal opportunities.
We have a long and successful track record in education and education technology – the OU-pioneered ‘supported open learning’ – and we are the world leader in this specialist area. The OU's provision is among the largest in Europe and offers a rich diversity of qualifications: undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in education as well as online and distance education.
Our education qualifications will give you a foundation for a range of roles relating to primary education, including helping you prepare to apply for teacher training. They're also relevant to other careers within childcare, health, education, play work and working with families and young people.
BA (Honours) Education Studies (Primary)
BSc (Honours) Mathematics and its Learning
BSc (Honours) Sport, Fitness and Coaching
BA (Honours) Childhood and Youth Studies
BA (Honours) Early Childhood
BA/BSc (Honours) Open degree
Top-up your existing Diploma of Higher Education or Foundation Degree to an Honours Degree in the same subject.
Top-up BA (Honours) Early Childhood
Diploma of Higher Education in Education Studies (Primary)
Diploma of Higher Education in Childhood and Youth Studies
Diploma of Higher Education in Sport and Fitness
Diploma of Higher Education in Early Childhood
Diploma of Higher Education Open
Certificate of Higher Education in Education Studies (Primary)
Certificate of Higher Education in Childhood and Youth Studies
Certificate of Higher Education in Sport, Fitness and Management
Certificate of Higher Education in Children and Families
Certificate of Higher Education in Early Childhood
Certificate of Higher Education Open
Masters degree in Education
MA in Online Teaching
Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Studies in Education
Postgraduate Certificate in Online Teaching
Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education
Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Wales
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