What A levels for BA Education Studies?
Discussion for A-Level students and for those choosing their A-Level subjects.
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?Do you mean the childcare related course? If so, I don't think it really matters. If its childcare you want to do, your better off going an doing a BTEC in childcare and seeing where you can go from there- better than getting into alot of debt from going to university.
A friend of mine wanted to do, went and did a Level 3 BTEC in childcare, did a year in a nursery and now works in Dubai as a Nanny and earns about £600net a week for doing 12 hour days which you can't sniff at- especially when she gets all accommodation, food and bills paid for. -
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?Useful for BA in Education:
History, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy
Useful if later you want to teach primary (I don't think you'd be able to teach secondary with a BA in Education):
Mathematics, English, Sciences, Foreign Language, Music/Art/DT
Personally I would recommend you take:
1 Mathematics,
2 English Language / French / German / Spanish,
3 Psychology / Sociology / History / Politics / Biology / Physics / Chemistry / PE,
4 Biology / Physics / Chemistry / Music / Art / DT / ICT / ComputingLast edited by llys; 23-05-2012 at 11:07. -
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?Would I be considered with Eng Lang, Lit, Economics, Politics?(Original post by llys)
Useful for BA in Education:
History, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy
Useful if later you want to teach primary:
Mathematics, English, Sciences, Foreign Language, Music/Art/DT
Personally I would recommend you take:
1 Mathematics,
2 English Language / French / German / Spanish,
3 Psychology / Sociology / History / Politics / Biology / Physics / Chemistry / PE,
4 Biology / Physics / Chemistry / Music / Art / DT / ICT / Computing -
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?Of course. There are no required subjects as far as I know, just useful or less useful ones.(Original post by GrantG)
Would I be considered with Eng Lang, Lit, Economics, Politics?
I don't see the point of taking Economics and both of Lit and Lang though.
Lang is very good for Education / Linguistics, Lit is better for everything else. I would pick one depending on how sure you are of Education. Then you can pick one other.
Economics, I guess if you are interested in it, but if you wanted to study it at university you'd need Maths anyway and Maths A-Level would be more useful generally. If you don't want to take Maths I'd take a Foreign Language or Biology / Psychology instead.
So something like
English Lit/Lang, Psychology/Biology/Sociology, Politics, Maths/FrenchLast edited by llys; 23-05-2012 at 11:37. -
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?I'm planning on doing Education Studies with Music: I'm doing AS levels (and I want to do all 4 at A2) in Psychology, French, Music and English Lang + Lit (combined). It doesn't really matter, as long as if you want to teach and specialise in a subject you do that one for A level, and you enjoy the subjects you pick. At the end of the day it's done on UCAS points so whatever subject, as long as you get the grades.
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?Do you want to be a secondary school teacher? If you do then half your degree will need to be in a national curriculum subject (the subject you want to teach).
Eg you would do joint honours Education studies and history.
So you would usually need an A level in the subject you want to teach (except sociology and philosophy as not all schools offer sociology and philosophy at A level).
Relevant subjects are any national curriculum subjects, politics, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
Do not pick childcare/any vocational subjects as they are not relevant to BA Education Studies (as opposed to BA primary teaching) degrees: an Education Studies degree is half about studying your chosen NC subject and half about studying the philosophy, psychology, history and politics and sociology of education.Last edited by undergradstudent; 23-05-2012 at 17:29. -
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Re: What A levels for BA Education Studies?That's not true at all. Firstly many unis (eg Cambridge, Durham, York) go by grades (eg AAB offer) not ucas points.(Original post by LaurenD)
I'm planning on doing Education Studies with Music: I'm doing AS levels (and I want to do all 4 at A2) in Psychology, French, Music and English Lang + Lit (combined). It doesn't really matter, as long as if you want to teach and specialise in a subject you do that one for A level, and you enjoy the subjects you pick. At the end of the day it's done on UCAS points so whatever subject, as long as you get the grades.
Secondly just getting the ucas points isn't enough - unis may prefer certain subjects (because they are relevant, or because they are 'hard' not 'soft' subjects).
Even if their offer is '300 points in any subject', that absolutely does not mean that they will treat everyone with 300 points them same. Your choices look really good though.
