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Hey im currently doing a english and education degree at Hallam, i may stay but i may move and do straight education. However i want to work within the social services/work field and eventually want to work along the lines of educational psychology.
Do you think i would be able to get onto a masters course to do something like social work or something similar doing a straight education course?

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username36063

Hi there my GF is considering doing ed psy so I know a wee bit about the route.

http://www.bps.org.uk/careers/areas/educational.cfm

take a look at that.

its a long road to Ed Psy.

You will need to get GBR of the BPS so you will need to get a masters that confers GBR as neither education or english/education will do this. See http://www.bps.org.uk/membership/grades/gbr1.cfm for info and courses giving GBR.

Once you have done your undergrad, you should look for a GBR confering masters.

You then need to do a 3 year doctorate of ed psy, but to get on this you will need some long-term experience with children (eg. teaching assitant)

You could also look at doing it in Scotland where you can do a 2 year MSc at Dundee or Strathclyde that makes you elligible for ed psy, however much more children experience is required.

If you wanted to speed things up a tad, try and get on to a GBR undergrad http://www.bps.org.uk/bps/careers/accredited-courses/accredited-courses.cfm?action=results&in_id=204&level_of_study=all&submit=Search, at shef hallam you have the choice of Psychology or Psychology/law. Get yourself a 2:1, go do a PGCE do an NQT year (so 2 years working with kids) then apply for the D.Ed.psy.

So you are looking at 8 years work really (might be able to knock a year or so off if you can transfer to 2nd year of undergrad somewhere).

Its surprising that ed psy requires mainly psy background and not ed.

good luck

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