School of Education

The School of Education has a national reputation for excellence and over thirty years experience in teacher training. The School places emphasis on creating a supportive yet challenging learning environment. It is committed to nurturing its students and preparing them to become professionals.

Courses include Foundation Degrees, undergraduate degrees, as well as Masters and Doctorate awards. Courses cover a broad range of careers in education and associated professions working with children and young people. Many of the School's courses lead directly to professional status, such as Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and Early Years Professional Status (EYPS).

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The School of Education is proud to have achieved the highest award from Ofsted, Grade 1, for outstanding management and quality assurance for the School's Primary and Early Years Initial Teacher Training provision. It has also been awarded the Teaching Agency's (TA) highest grade for quality, Category A provider status as a result of the Ofsted success.

The School's professional courses for teaching assistants are among the first in the country to have been endorsed by the TA. This identifies that these courses meet the national requirements for qualifications for the Children and Young People's Workforce.

Research

The School of Education is active in research and home to an approved research centre, The Centre for Education and Research (CeSNER).

The research centre has a commitment to working in partnership with professional colleagues, schools and settings on a national and international level.

Social enterprise

The University of Northampton is committed to delivering a new student experience, underpinned by a culture of entrepreneurship, research and social enterprise. In delivering this aim, we will become the first university in the UK to integrate both teaching and research activities, in all degree disciplines, with social enterprise and aim to be the UK's number one university for social enterprise by 2015.

The social enterprise theme unites work carried out in all our Schools, and many of our Departments, and builds on our existing strengths in enterprise promotion, community interaction, regional engagement, widening participation, third sector partnership, student volunteering and employability.