Hello, I'm Michelle Wormald, and I'm the Programme
Director for the Teaching Studies for Secondary Education.
The BA / BSc Hons degree in Secondary
Teaching Studies is a unique new course that's specifically designed
for anyone who's looking to go into secondary education.
And that might be if you're coming straight from college, it might be
that you're looking to change career or you might even be an overseas student.
It's an accelerated course so that you'll be doing three trimesters
each year, and that means that you'll finish the course in two years,
which is one year earlier than other undergraduate courses.
That means you can go on to train
officially for a teacher post straight afterwards,
so you'll be finishing a year earlier than other people.
The course itself is 50% subject specialism,
so whatever subject specialism that you choose, you will be spending 50%
of that time with your peers in those subjects areas
and the rest of the time the other 50% will be in Education modules
and that's going to be led by my colleagues on the course.
We are all well established practitioners in Education,
and they've had lots of experience supporting people going into teaching.
You'll also have opportunity to go on to placements.
That could be in a school or any other educational setting
where you will interact with young people and you get a chance
to develop the skills that you've learned from the university course itself.
I look forward to seeing you in the next Open Day
and I look forward to having you on the course in the future.