Education with Sustainability BA (Hons)

<strong>Gain a degree in Education with one of five specialisms: History, English, Sustainability, Inclusive Practice, or Leadership and Management.</strong><br/><br/>Sustainability (taught in Cambridge): critically engage with key topics to understand the importance of environmental sustainability in different educational contexts. Available from September 2025.<br/><br/>You’ll benefit from our 20 years + experience of training education professionals.<br/><br/>Ranked 13th in the UK for Education (The Guardian University Guide 2025).<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>You’ll develop the knowledge and experience for classroom roles and a wide range of education-focused careers. Youll 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.<br/><br/>Whether youre 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.<br/><br/><strong>Careers</strong><br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.

The team at Anglia Ruskin understand that Clearing can seem scary. But don't worry, they make it simple and will guide you every step of the way. <br/><br/>ARU students are supported at every stage of their journey, from counselling and wellbeing sessions to a money advice service.<br/><br/>Whatever your career ambitions, ARU's innovative curriculum is developed to provide you with the transferable skills and practical experience that employers are looking for. <br/><br/>ARU has been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework in recognition of their high teaching standards. ARU was also named University of the Year for 2023, reflecting their commitment to excellent education. <br/><br/>You'll have access to their careers service throughout your time at ARU, and after you graduate. They even have an in-house recruitment agency, ARU Temps, who can help you start building your CV, while also earning some extra money. They were also a finalist in the Academic Employability Awards 2025, showing the great opportunities that await ARU alumni!<br/><br/>ARU's £95m investment in the last five years means you'll get top-notch facilities: award-winning SuperLabs, financial trading rooms, TV studios, engineering labs, gaming suites, mock law courts, nursing and paramedic skills labs, and much more! ARU's Peterborough Lab building was also named building of the year at the 2025 Pineapple Awards.<br/><br/>Find out more and apply to ARU today.