Program Overview

If you’re passionate about educating the next generation, our two-year Primary Education BA will provide you with the skills and experience to join the education workforce in rapid time. This accelerated course, designed so that you can focus on achieving the best possible degree classification, will allow you to graduate in just two years, instead of the traditional three years. This is without the extra pressure of having to meet the teacher standards to gain QTS while on a placement.

Following the two-year course you can then progress on to a PGCE. The reason an accelerated degree course only takes two years to complete is because you’ll study across three semesters rather than two. In year one, the three semesters are October to January, February to early May and May to late July. In year two the last semester finishes in May to ensure you can progress onto a PGCE, if desired.

The combination of an accelerated degree and a PGCE to achieve QTS has a number of benefits:

• Studying an accelerated degree will help you achieve the best degree classification possible without the additional pressure of having to meet the teacher standards and gain QTS while on placement.
• The placements you will carry out on the two-year accelerated programme will allow you to see and practise the skills and knowledge you are learning on the degree course, without having the judgement of whether you meet QTS at an early stage in your development as an educator.
• This allows you to develop more as a reflective practitioner so that when you move onto the PGCE you have gained relevant and useful experience and have had time to reflect on your own skills and abilities.
• On a PGCE you are supported individually by a link tutor from the University, who will help ensure you have the best possible experience, as well as a school-based mentor during your placements.
• A PGCE is an internationally recognised qualification, allowing more flexibility in where you can teach once qualified.
• A PGCE provides you with 60 master’s-level credits, which you can use towards a master’s in education at a later point in your career.

This course will help you form the ability to think clearly about educational theory and how it shapes practice. You'll achieve this through research-based innovation, ethical judgement and a capacity to work in collaboration with others. You will develop your understanding of research-based best practice, the ethical issues involved and how these help or hinder the delivery of social justice and equality.

Our London Met staff, who have many years' experience in the state education sector and higher education, will help you gain an abundance of experience. The curriculum is designed to aid you in becoming an effective teaching professional and build your understanding of educational systems.

Many of our students work as teaching asssistants while they study, allowing them to earn while studying modules that require school placements. These placements also provide excellent opportunities to observe practice and relate this to their learning in lectures and workshops.

QTS can be achieved by studying an additional one-year PGCE course – we’ll guarantee you an interview for a PGCE here at London Met on successful completion of the two-year Primary Education BA course.