BA (Hons) Professional Practice Top-up Degree

BA (Hons) Professional Practice Top-up Degree

If you are currently working in a professional area such as early years, children’s services or elsewhere in the education sector, this degree will enable you to enhance your skills and expertise, furthering your professional development.

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BA (Hons) Professional Practice Top-up Degree

As a skilled professional, you will constantly evaluate your performance, striving to meet both current and future demands, and facilitating positive changes in the workplace. This degree will help you engage proactively with the professional challenges encountered in your role. You will be encouraged to share expertise and insights with colleagues from other professional contexts, promoting an inter-disciplinary approach to learning.

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Modules

These may may alter following course revisions

  • Independent Study (triple module)
  • Specialism module (double module in either early years, children’s services or education)
  • Professional Development Planning
  • Applied Psychological Perspectives
  • Reflecting on Practice: Evaluation & Change
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Contact time:

In a typical single module you will have 10-hours contact hours of teaching. You will be expected to complete learning activities before and between sessions.

You will have an introductory 5-hour session for the independent study and the specialism module followed by timetabled tutorials, some of which are accompanied by group seminars. The specialism module also includes online learning activities supported by an e-tutor.

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Progression

Completion of the degree will enable you to progress to postgraduate study in education or other related areas. We offer a variety of postgraduate training programmes for primary teaching, such as our SCITT programmes and teaching apprenticeships. We also offer a Masters in Education through the University of Worcester.

Details

Audience

Anyone working within a professional role who would like to further their knowledge and qualifications and gain a BA Hons degree.

Independent/Self-Study/Teaching/Assessment

Independent self-study:

In addition to the contact time, you are expected to undertake around 15-20 hours of personal self-study per week. Typically, this will involve completing online activities, reading journal articles and books, undertaking research in the library and online, preparing coursework assignments and presentations, and preparing for final assessments.

Independent learning is supported by a range of excellent learning facilities, including the library resources with extensive electronic learning resources and Blackboard, the virtual learning environment.

Teaching:

You will be allocated a personal tutor who will support you through tutorials, the independent study and Specialism modules. You’ll attend a combination of lectures, seminars, and also learn through discussion and small group activities.

Assessment:

The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments. Each module has one or more formal or ‘summative’ assessments which are graded and count towards the overall module grade.

Assessment methods include the independent study, portfolio, essay, case study and reflective evaluation.

The precise assessment requirements for an individual student in an academic year are set out in the module outline, the handbook for each module.

Duration and Level

1 Year full time course. Term time Only.

Level 6

Awarding Institution

University of Worcester

Course Requirements

120 credits at Level 4 HE

120 credits at Level 5 HE

Current experience of working in a relevant professional setting

Cost

Standard tuition fees apply. You may be eligible for a student loan to help pay the cost of your tuition fees.

How to apply

UCAS – www.ucas.com

UCAS course code: X370

Institution code: W80

Campus code: G