blackburn university any good?

so, I'm thinking of applying for a BA Education studies at Blackburn University. I don't really know much about the University,Is it any good? at? and is the education course worth it?

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Original post by Kauthaar

so, I'm thinking of applying for a BA Education studies at Blackburn University. I don't really know much about the University,Is it any good? at? and is the education course worth it?

Blackburn isn't really a university although it is applying to become one. I think you may find the university experience there limited. It is small (3000 university level students). Moreover the social dynamic will be atypical for an English university. It will have a very high number of students living at home. The larger student body will be mostly further education students, many of whom will be part-time and are likely to have a different outlook.

The overall ethnic minority composition of the student body at 29% was unremarkable but the college website seems to have removed more detailed diversity information, which is likely to show that the student population is less diverse than that figure might suggest with the overwhelming majority of students drawn from only two ethnic groups: White Lancastrians and Lancastrians of South Asian origin. That may be discouraging for someone not of one of those groups and potentially giving a limited social experience to someone from one of those groups.

Be careful about this course. This is not a teacher training course. Nor will it adequately prepare students to do a PGCE to become secondary school teachers. You would need to check whether it provides an adequate foundation to do a PGCE to become a primary school teacher. The demand in the economy for people with academic educational skills but who are not qualified teachers is low. Educational research will largely be undertaken by graduates from far better institutions than this.

The cynic in me suggests that this course will mainly be undertaken by local women of Asian origin as a way of finishing their general education who do not then progress into any form of graduate employment and the course has been established with that market in view.