Online
DURATION
3 up to 10 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Jun 2025
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning, On-Campus
Scholarships
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Introduction
This flexible non-teaching education degree incorporates a wide range of subjects to prepare you to work in a range of educational fields, including training and management environments. With the UNE’s Bachelor of Educational Studies, you will learn in a flexible and supportive environment. Hone your skills to be transferable across a range of contexts and future proof your career.
Why study the Bachelor of Educational Studies with UNE?
A career in education goes beyond the classroom. This non-teaching course gives you the knowledge and skills to pursue a wide range of career options, with the flexibility to focus on subjects that interest you most.
The mix of disciplinary and educational studies, communication skills, problem solving and information literacy, and understanding of the opportunities and challenges in education, will open to door to a wide range of careers in business, school management, educational psychology and human resources.
By enrolling in this course, you will be studying with Australia’s longest continuous provider of distance (now online) education.
What makes our course different?
Key strengths of this course are its opportunities and flexibility including the entry and exit pathways:
- If you haven’t quite met the entry requirements to a teaching degree, it’s a pathway into various teaching degrees. The completion of an appropriate number/combination of NESA-approved bridging units, or 48 credit points of Discipline units offered in this course, will meet NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)'s 'three Band 5s including English' requirement for admission to an Initial Teacher Education course.
- Alternatively, if you have started a teaching degree and decided the classroom is not the right space for you, but you want to pursue an education-related career, it’s an ideal non-teaching degree exit pathway.
- If you are a mature-age student changing careers or upskilling and want to step into a teaching degree, this degree is an ideal springboard into, or out of, the classroom.
- Benefit from a variety of education career options and have the choice to study a broad range of subjects relating to education as a discipline (non-teaching).
- Improve your problem-solving skills not only in contemporary education, but widely transferrable to other fields.
- Develop your skills in enabling learning and collaboration across various professional areas.
- Balance your study with other commitments by studying online. By choosing UNE, you are choosing an industry leader in the provision of online lifelong learning for aspiring and qualified professionals in the education field. Year on year, students award UNE 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support.
Study online
Most of our students choose to study online across three study periods with 24/7 tutor support* and fit study around work and family commitments. Uniquely, our online students are mostly over 30 and bring valuable experience with them. They form a community of adults juggling the same challenges and priorities and who bring their life and work experience together at UNE in order to become future-fit and better respond to a rapidly changing world.
Study on campus
Many of our students choose to take advantage of the on-campus lifestyle in Armidale, in the beautiful New England region, with access to unparalleled support, accommodation and sporting facilities. These students are often starting their first degree and have left school recently. Through access to academic and career support they get a fantastic start to their careers.
24/7 tutor support includes: essay feedback (within 24 hours); live chat 24/7 for generic feedback on academic writing; and subject-specific help at a foundation or first-year level for subjects including mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, business, accounting, microeconomics, macroeconomics and statistics. There are also a wide range of workshops, resources and courses available in academic skills support to assist you and help you to succeed.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Curriculum
Course structure
To qualify for the award a candidate must pass units to the value of 144 credit points including not more than 60 credit points at 100-level and at least 36 credit points at 300-level, with a minimum of 72 credit points of Education units.
Core Units
48 credit points
Complete the following units:
- History of Australian Education (EDCX135)
- Society and Education (EDCX246)
- Curriculum and the Social Context of Schooling (EDCX301)
- ICT Across the Curriculum (EDIT124)
- Learning, Assessment and Evaluation (EDLT330)
- Advanced Learning Theory 1 (EDLT390)
- Development and Learning in Childhood and Adolescence (EDSP245)
- Investigating Education for Sustainability (EDUC328)
Listed Units Educational Studies
48 credit points
Complete 48 credit points from the following units:
- Learning in Social Movements (EDCX310)
- Innovations in Training and Development (EDCX380)
- Social and Collaborative Learning Technologies (EDIT313)
- Introduction to Learning with Technology (EDIT426)
- Health Promotion in Schools and the Community (EDPE343)
- Educating Students in Inclusive Environments (EDSP300)
- Autism: Evidence Based Intervention (EDSP354)
- Religious Education (EDSS375)
- Teaching for Cultural Diversity - EAL/D Students (EDUC303)
- Reflective Practitioner 1 (EDUC456)
Listed Units Discipline-based Non-Education
48 credit points
Complete 48 credit points from any of the units below with not more than 36 credit points at 100-level:
Students intending to transfer to an undergraduate Initial Teacher Education course where "three HSC Band 5s including English" is an entry requirement may either:
(i) complete a total of four units, with at least one unit in English (ENGL coded unit or EDEE100), and at least two NESA-approved Band 5 Bridging units*; or
(ii) complete 48 credit points from the units below.
In both cases they should consider their intended course, its Program of Study and the combination of units in this course to maximise the amount of Advanced Standing they may be granted.
NESA-approved bridging units are noted under each KLA below.
With the permission of the Course Coordinator, alternative units may be selected, subject to candidates meeting overall course requirements and prerequisite and timetabling requirements for individual units.
Note that EDEE100 is an English bridging unit, and that any bridging units taken must match separate HSC courses i.e. students cannot do multiple bridging units in the one HSC subject area.
- English Primary KLA; Secondary Subject Areas listed below
- Mathematics Primary KLA; Mathematics Secondary Subject Area
- Science and Technology Primary KLA; Secondary Subject Areas listed below
- Human Society and its Environment Primary KLA; Secondary Subject Areas listed below
- Creative and Practical Arts Primary KLA; Drama and Music Secondary Subject Areas
- Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PHDPE) KLA
Program Outcome
- Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge of education as an academic discipline and an understanding of current knowledge in the discipline, and be able to demonstrate autonomy, judgement and responsibility to apply this knowledge to their personal or professional situation;
- Demonstrate knowledge in a range of discipline areas;
- Demonstrate a critical and independent understanding of theories and factual content and be able to communicate this in a clear and coherent manner using a variety of written and oral communication modes;
- Analyse, critically evaluate and communicate ideas and solve problems in the field of study in Education; and
- Take responsibility for their own learning and collaborate with others within broad parameters.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
This course opens doors to a wide range of non-teaching careers in a range of education-related fields including:
- education administration
- school management
- education officer
In addition, if you haven’t met the entry requirements for a teaching qualification, the Bachelor of Educational Studies is an ideal pathway into various teaching degrees.
Or, if you have started a teaching degree and want to pursue an education-related career outside the classroom, the course is an ideal exit pathway.