Bachelor of Educational Studies

Overview

This flexible non-teaching education degree incorporates a wide range of subjects to prepare you to work in a range of educational fields, including training and management environments. With UNE’s Bachelor of Educational Studies, you will learn in a flexible and supportive environment. Hone your skills to be transferable across a range of contexts and future-proof your career.

Why study the Bachelor of Educational Studies with UNE?

A career in education goes beyond the classroom. This non-teaching course gives you the knowledge and skills to pursue a wide range of career options, with the flexibility to focus on subjects that interest you most.

The mix of disciplinary and educational studies, communication skills, problem solving and information literacy, and understanding of the opportunities and challenges in education, will open to door to a wide range of careers in business, school management, educational psychology and human resources.

By enrolling in this course, you will be studying with Australia’s longest continuous provider of distance (now online) education.

What makes our course different?

Key strengths of this course are its opportunities and flexibility including the entry and exit pathways:

If you haven’t quite met the entry requirements to a teaching degree, it’s a pathway into various teaching degrees. The completion of an appropriate number/combination of NESA-approved bridging units, or 48 credit points of Discipline units offered in this course, will meet NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)'s 'three Band 5s including English' requirement for admission to an Initial Teacher Education course.

Alternatively, if you have started a teaching degree and decided the classroom is not the right space for you, but you want to pursue an education-related career, it’s an ideal non-teaching degree exit pathway.

If you are a mature-age student changing careers or upskilling and want to step into a teaching degree, this degree is an ideal springboard into, or out of, the classroom.

Benefit from a variety of education career options and have the choice to study a broad range of subjects relating to education as a discipline (non-teaching).

Improve your problem-solving skills not only in contemporary education, but widely transferrable to other fields.

Develop your skills in enabling learning and collaboration across various professional areas.

Balance your study with other commitments by studying online. By choosing UNE, you are choosing an industry leader in the provision of online lifelong learning for aspiring and qualified professionals in the education field. Year on year, students award UNE 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support.

Study online

Most of our students choose to study online across three study periods with 24/7 tutor support* and fit study around work and family commitments. Uniquely, our online students are mostly over 30 and bring valuable experience with them. They form a community of adults juggling the same challenges and priorities and who bring their life and work experience together at UNE in order to become future-fit and better respond to a rapidly changing world.

Study on campus

Many of our students choose to take advantage of the on-campus lifestyle in Armidale, in the beautiful New England region, with access to unparalleled support, accommodation and sporting facilities. These students are often starting their first degree and have left school recently. Through access to academic and career support they get a fantastic start to their careers.

* 24/7 tutor support includes: essay feedback (within 24 hours); live chat 24/7 for generic feedback on academic writing; and subject-specific help at a foundation or first-year level for subjects including mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, business, accounting, microeconomics, macroeconomics and statistics. There are also a wide range of workshops, resources and courses available in academic skills support to assist you and help you to succeed.