Careers Brief - Education - Post-Compulsory Education BA Hons

Overview

The BA (Hons) Post-Compulsory Education course provides teachers and trainers qualified with a Certificate in Education, the opportunity to gain an Honours degree, improving career prospects in teaching and opening up other opportunities.

Your teaching experience and knowledge of education, in addition to the employability skills you have been developing (such as verbal communication, problem-solving and social interpersonal skills) can also be an advantage in many related occupations.

Examples: community education; Education Officers working in Health Promotion, museums and environmental information; Training Officers in commerce and industry; careers advisers; youth workers; counsellors; education social workers; public relations; educational publishing; broadcasting; journalism; education sector administration.

For an overview of the industry sector, go to National Guidance Research Forum for 'LMI Future trends' and 'Sectors covered'.

To clarify your personal career direction or to consider a wider choice of careers matched to your interests, use the Prospects Planner and other tools in the Career Planning section of this Careers Guide.

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Further study

You may progress onto an appropriate higher level Masters or PhD doctorate. A good Honours (First or 2.1) degree is usually required. This could be to develop your area of study to a more in-depth academic level or to gain other specialist training.

For information on postgraduate study and finance, go to the national online directory at www.prospects.ac.uk/study.htm .