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Reply 1
oh. most of my teachers here do have a degree in education.
but i think the course is a good one even tho u don't want to be a teacher.
but do u want to work in the education field?
Reply 2
I think it's more of an academic course so it's not necessarily directed at you going into that area as it doesn't include training, so it'd be the same as say something who did a Law degree but instead wanted to go into the civil service. It's not like they only have to have a career in law :smile:.
Reply 3
yep. i may not have a career in law. just do the degree first. :P
Reply 4
i think education studies is studying education policy (ie. not very practical, but more theoretical/policy). so you can go into policy research etc. if you want to go into teaching, usually you do a degree like history and education (ie. subject you want to teach+education) or BA History+PGCE.
Reply 5
if u dont want to be a teacher, why study education studies?
Reply 6
JA_Prufrock
is education studies worth doing in your opinion. does anyone here do it? really looking for some more info on it. I would like to study it with english at a top university. will i be as employable as a sociology student?

I am talking about the more academic version of the course that places like york, cambridge, durham and exeter offer. I dont want to be a teacher!

please help:confused:


Ed. Studies is an academic qualification just like Sociology or English Literature or History. In fact, you will undoubtedly be using some of the same theoretical resources (theory is sometimes transdiscipline, so Historians, Lit. students and Sociologists learn about Feminism etc just like Ed. Studies students). The Ed. Studies (or Education and Early Childhood Studies) courses basically give you an academic grounding in subjects related to young people. This sounds obvious, but it's important to point out that you won't have a degree in teaching, but an academic degree in issues related to youth, child development, social policy, education and welfare, disability rights and human rights for young people, educational philosophy etc etc. There is so much more to the degree than people realise. Given all of this, your degree will be well received in those areas of work directly related to such topics. Also, your degree will put you on the right track for fast-track postgraduate training courses, such as teaching, psychology, social work etc (somebody on TSR has a first class honours degree in Ed. Studies and is now doing Law at Durham). Trust me, if the degree was a joke it wouldn't be offered by almost every university in the UK, and given the high employability rates of graduates from Education Studies departments that offer no undergrad undergrad teacher training (such as Exeter or Cambridge), it seems to be that many employees don't worry about the status of an Ed. Studies degree.
Reply 7
I study education studies and it is most certainly worth doing. I don't want to be a teacher, but I would like to work in the education field maybe as a mentor or something.

We learn everyday. Education studies applys to every day of our lives and gives a broad perspective about learning. We touch on schools but what we mostly learn about is how people learn and why, what values people hold about education.

it's taught me a lot about life, it touches on loads of different stuff! Hope this helps.