Science with Education and Qualified Teacher Status (Three Year Route) – BSc (Honours)

At a glance

Train for a fulfilling career as a science teacher in a subject area that needs more qualified graduates. This course is primarily designed for students who want to teach science at secondary level. In your third year, you spend at least 24 weeks in two or more schools developing your teaching skills and gaining your QTS status.

Key points• Enhance your job prospects in a subject area where there is a shortage of teachers.
• Study to teach all sciences to Key Stage 3 and one subject to Key Stage 4 and beyond.
• Spend at least 24 weeks in two or more schools developing your teaching skills.

What is science with education and QTS?
You study science to bring your expertise up to degree level, while learning how to teach science to a standard which meets the requirements of qualified teacher status (QTS). QTS is the accreditation that you need to be able to teach in schools in England and Wales.

This course

If you have relevant qualifications or academic credit and want to teach science in secondary schools, this course is designed for you. You teach in a subject area where there is a shortage of qualified science teachers and a need for graduates with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

The course includes• two years of science and education-based study to bring you up to degree level
• some experience of teaching in schools early on in the course
• a final year where you gain significant teaching experience in at least two schools and gain QTS

You study biology, chemistry and physics to prepare you to teach at Key Stage 3 and then go on to specialise in one science for teaching at Key Stage 4 and beyond.
During the early part of your course you have some school experience. However it is in your final year that you gain the teaching skills and experience you need to gain QTS. You spend at least 24 weeks in two or more schools practicing your teaching and subject knowledge.

A personal, school-based, trained mentor is assigned to you to help develop your teaching skills and improve through working with individual pupils, small groups and whole classes.

We have strong partnerships with local and regional secondary schools to ensure that you receive high quality training whilst on placement. You may even find employment, as many of our trainees do, at one of your placements.

Key areas of study
Key areas include biology, chemistry and physics, together with maths and ICT to support your teaching and education.