You’ll gain essential practical skills
through supported placements in a
range of settings, both traditional and
specialised. Our courses offer a rounded
and grounded education, preparing you
to be an autonomous, critically thinking
reflective professional.
This fresh, new approach to teacher
education offers an exciting variety of
learning and assessment methods.
Our approach to learning and teaching
As stated in our mission, QMU ‘strives to
create a community without borders,
helping to improve people’s lives locally,
nationally and internationally. We are
ambitious and enterprising, and, in
everything we do, we are committed to
social justice.’ We have drawn on our
existing expertise to develop education
courses with a focus on wellbeing,
resilience, child welfare and inequality.
Here you’ll discover a vibrant and
stimulating teacher education
experience, where you will study and
work with a range of community
organisations, schools, parents, local
government and children’s services.
Our new teacher education portfolio sits
within the Division of Psychology,
Sociology and Education at QMU and
will share the acclaimed approach taken
by our psychology and sociology
courses in being intellectually rigorous
and student-centred, with a focus on
wellbeing, social engagement and
diversity at their core. community education, overseas
humanitarian education, or teaching roles
in special setting such as hospitals.
Careers Graduates from our PGDE Secondary
(Home Economics) will be fully qualified
to fill vital posts in secondary schools
delivering the new face of home
economics. There, you will teach and
inspire young people to care about
themselves, their families and
communities through understanding the
links between food, nutrition and
wellbeing and helping them face the 21st
-century challenges of food insecurity,
consumerism, and sustainability.
Our new BA (Hons) Education Studies
(Primary) course will give you the
expertise, confidence and professional
qualification you need to teach in primary
schools. It will prepare you to inspire a
class of young learners, and will engage
you in the wider social issues that affect
education on every level and how this in
turn influences educational outcomes for
children.
Our BA (Hons) Education Studies degree
will prepare you for a range of careers
working with learners of all ages and
abilities and in all settings and contexts.
Your professional pathways could include
educational contexts other than the
traditional classroom such as adult
141
You could also use the degree as a
building block for postgraduate studies,
moving on into our Master of Research
(MRes) or our MSc Public Sociology,
where you will be supported and inspired
to undertake research in an area you are
passionate and curious about.
Join us.