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Education Studies (Distance Learning) (Top-Up) at University of Portsmouth - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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7Dec
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Course summary

Overview Education nurtures curiosity, stokes ambition and shapes careers. On this BA (Hons) Education Studies top-up degree course, you'll study education as a discipline and gain the skills and knowledge you need to work within education across a range of sectors and professions. You'll turn your Level 5 qualification – such as a diploma, teaching apprenticeship or foundation degree – into a full Bachelor's degree. You'll develop a deeper understanding of how people learn, explore education in relation to society and build on your research skills. Study part time by distance learning over 15 months, which enables you to work alongside your course and apply what you learn to your role in real time. When you graduate, you'll be ready to step up into a career championing education as a lifelong experience, such as in educational practice, professional training, nurseries, youth work or (with further study) teaching.

  • Explore cultural, emotional and social learning perspectives, such as the significance of heritage in the educational experience, societal norms in education, and the role of mentoring within an educational context
  • Be taught by expert researchers and practitioners from our School of Education, Languages and Linguistics
  • Study on a part time basis alongside your job, by distance learning
  • Graduate with a full Bachelor's degree that’s valued across the education sector
Careers and opportunities This education studies top-up degree will give you a solid grounding in the theory and ideas of practice behind education and the way people teach and learn. It's ideal if you want a versatile Bachelor's degree that will open doors across the education sector and beyond. Further study This course does not provide Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), but it does provide the gateway to study for further postgraduate qualifications, including QTS, early years initial teacher training (EYITT), qualifying social work Master's and other postgraduate courses. For example, once you graduate with this BA (Hons) Education Studies top-up degree, you could do further postgraduate study to become a teacher via a PGCE course, such as our Primary PGCE or Further Education and Training PGCE. Or you could become an early years teacher with our GradCert Early Years Initial Teacher Training course. What jobs can you do with a Education Studies (Top-Up) degree? Roles our graduates have taken on include: teaching in primary education (with further training) teaching in colleges (with further training) early years teacher (with further training) social worker (with further training) senior management roles in nurseries senior positions in education and training in areas such as nursing and police work When you finish the course, our Careers and Employability service can help you find a job that puts your skills to work in the industry. You can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years after you leave the University as you advance in your career.

Modules

Each module on this course is worth a certain number of credits. You need to study modules worth a total of 120 credits. For example, 4 modules worth 20 credits and 1 module worth 40 credits. Core modules: - Becoming a Researcher (20 credits) - Child and Youth Development (20 credits) - Health & Well Being of the Child and Young Person. (20 credits) - Perspectives of Early Childhood Education (20 credits) - Understanding Childhoods (40 credits) We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

Assessment method

You’ll be assessed through presentations, essays, reports and a dissertation.

How to apply

To apply for this course you will be taken to the provider's website, where you can find out more information and make an application.

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Relevant HE study leading to a Level 5 qualification, for example an appropriate HND, foundation degree or Advanced Diploma, or 240 credits from year 1 and year 2 of an undergraduate degree (BA/BSc), in a relevant subject.

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6.5English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0.
PTE Academic65An overall score of 65 with a minimum of 62 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)9191 with a minimum of 20 in Reading, 19 in Listening, 21 in Speaking and 20 in Writing.
Cambridge English AdvancedCambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169.
Cambridge English ProficiencyCambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169.
Trinity ISETrinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components.

Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £4110 Year 1
England £4110 Year 1
Northern Ireland £4110 Year 1
Scotland £4110 Year 1
Wales £4110 Year 1
Channel Islands £4110 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £4110 Year 1
International £10800 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Education Studies (Distance Learning) (Top-Up) at University of Portsmouth - UCAS