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Education and Professional Development BA/BA(Hons)

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Start Dates

25 September 2027

Duration

2 years part-time

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About this course

Overview

Why choose Huddersfield for this course?

  • Advance your professional expertise through blended learning combining Saturday sessions and online study.
  • Apply theory to your own practice and build confidence in analysis, policy influence, and digital skills.
  • Join a dynamic learning community and showcase at annual student festivals.

If you are working in education, training, healthcare, careers or the uniformed services and want to advance your professional skills, this course helps you develop the confidence and expertise to progress in your career. Designed for busy professionals, it blends Saturday on-campus sessions with flexible online learning, giving you the freedom to study while continuing to work.

Your own professional practice is at the heart of the course. You will explore ideas that strengthen your leadership, critical thinking and digital capability while examining how education policy, organisational culture and innovation shape professional environments. You will learn to analyse challenges, influence change and develop creative, research-informed solutions you can apply directly in your workplace.

You will join a supportive learning community where collaborative study, tutor guidance and peer networks help you grow. The course embraces a ‘students-as-researchers’ approach, offering opportunities to showcase your practitioner-led research at annual events and contribute to professional conversations in your field.

By the end of your degree, you will have the knowledge, confidence and professional insight to take the next step in your career or progress to further study.

Career opportunities after the course *

Graduate Teaching Assistants

School Administrators

Psychology Teaching Assistants

School Business Managers

Academic Mentors

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Who can apply?

Entry Requirements

Entry requirements for this course are normally one of the following:

  • Cert Ed or level 5 teaching/training/education qualification
  • Foundation Degree from the University of Huddersfield

Candidates not meeting the above academic requirements but who are able to demonstrate significant and relevant experience will be considered on an individual basis. Please get in contact for further advice.

In addition you must also demonstrate at least two years teaching or training experience and be in an educational or training role.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

What will you learn?

Course Details

This module is focused on enhancing your professionalism and practice through structured workplace learning. You'll have the opportunity to explore work-based learning opportunities and employability together with student occupational and professional concepts, principles and techniques, including reflective practice and using established analytical tools. You'll develop and maintain a systematic approach to evidencing and reviewing your professionalism and employability. There's an emphasis on you setting your own work related learning objectives, developing reflective practice and using learning agreements. Your development will normally be supported in the workplace through supervision arrangements,

This module will allow you to explore innovative and creative developments in teaching and learning practice. You'll have the opportunity to develop a proposal for innovative practice in your own professional context through a presentation and supporting paper and to evaluate the effectiveness of your intervention through a short presentation and discussion.

This module seeks to explore the social, cultural, political and economic context of education. Assessment is typically via the development of a portfolio analysing the influences on education, a reflexive account of your own personal and professional development and an evaluation of a specific aspect of current educational practice.

Core modules for the Ordinary degree:

This module encourages you to make explicit links between your modules and your own practice, seeking to deepen your understanding of key issues. Assessment is typically via written coursework exploring key themes within education and professional development through reflection on your own professional learning and development.

For more information on when and how we update our modules please see the ‘Legal Information’ section below.

Core modules for the Honours degree:

This module explores a range of research strategies and methods, preparing you to assess the value and significance of different approaches to data collection and analysis within your field of study. You’ll learn how to develop your own research design, and how to collect and analyse information in order to find out new things about a topic that you’re interested in. Coursework typically involves developing your own research proposal.

This module allows you to pursue your particular interests and demonstrate the breadth of knowledge, understanding and strengths that you have developed during your degree studies. You’ll be supported to select a relevant topic and develop a proposal. This module is your opportunity to bring together everything you have learned in a study of your choosing and you'll typically be assessed via a dissertation.

This module encourages you to make explicit links between your modules and your own practice, seeking to deepen your understanding of key issues. Assessment is typically via written coursework exploring key themes within education and professional development through reflection on your own professional learning and development.

For more information on when and how we update our modules please see the ‘Legal Information’ section below.

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How much will it cost?

Fees and Finance

£2,512.50 per 30 credits

This information is for Home students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2027/28.

Modules credits can range from 15 to 60, dependent on the content of the module. Read more about total credits required for a range of degrees, to allow you to calculate the potential total cost.

Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy. 

From January 2027 the UK government is launching a new student funding system for people starting university education. Read more about the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE).

For detailed information please visit our fees page.

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