Education with Sustainability - BA (Hons)

Anglia Ruskin University

**Gain a degree in Education with one of five specialisms: History, English, Sustainability, Inclusive Practice, or Leadership and Management.**Sustainability (taught in Cambridge): critically engage with key topics to understand the importance of environmental sustainability in different educational contexts. Available from September 2025.**Why ARU?*** You’ll benefit from our 20 years + experience of training education professionals.* Ranked 13th in the UK for Education (The Guardian University Guide 2025).At ARU, our BA (Hons) Education degree offers you the unique opportunity to combine a solid foundation in education with one of five high-impact specialisms: English, History, Sustainability, Inclusive Practice, or Leadership and Management.You’ll develop the knowledge and experience for classroom roles and a wide range of education-focused careers. You'll study how education intersects with sociology, policy, globalisation, technology, and social justice, gaining the skills to influence and innovate within evolving educational landscapes-locally and globally.Whether you're passionate about environmental change, inclusive learning environments, inspiring leadership, literature, or historical understanding, you’ll develop specialist expertise that sets you apart in the job market. Alongside academic knowledge, you’ll build practical experience through volunteering, placements, and community engagement.**Careers**Throughout the course you’ll get the support, tools and opportunities you need to succeed as an autonomous, active learner, including on-going feedback, personalised teaching approaches and resources based on your needs, interests, and experiences.You’ll also gain an understanding of educational systems and policies at local, national, and international levels, and the factors that impact human learning and development and influence educational outcomes and practices.You’ll develop a broad range of skills and qualities to work in a range of professions associated with education, development and care of children, young people and adults in many different settings that require a necessarily high personal and professional standard of behaviour and ethical values.With further training you could progress to teaching roles, or other roles within the education sector. You may choose to work in policy or leadership roles or, like us, teach and train our future educators.You might also want to continue on to a Masters course, such as one of our MA Education degrees, which include options to specialise in leadership and management, SEND, and Montessori settings, or our PGCE. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship to get 20% off your fees.

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