Youth Work and Social Education with Foundation Year (ETS Endorsed) (Full-time) (BA Hons)
Youth Work and Social Education (BA) (ETS Endorsed) offers a professional qualification for students, and through a social science lens it explores current and contemporary challenges that are faced by young people, including:
- Trauma
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Substance misuse
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- Health and Well-being
- The impact of relationships
The degree triangulates theory, policy and practice in an applied manner to enable graduates to be both excellent academics and excellent practitioners.
Known often as the ‘best kept secret’, youth work is a powerful approach to supporting young people to build resilience and resourcefulness, and to achieve their full potential. Youth work is based on developing good, positive relationships with young people, and acts as the foundation for supporting young people through a range of issues. This is why the youth work degree is often viewed by other professions as a highly desirable qualification.
Course details
- On-campus
- Full-time
- English
- Welsh
- Bilingual
Tuition Fees 24/25
Home (Full-time): £9,000 per year
Overseas (Full-time): £13,500 per year
Why choose this course?
What you will learn
Youth Work and Social Education (BA) (ETS Endorsed) degree will equip students to be able to work with young people, communities and families, and to be practitioners who are fit for purpose in the 21st century. Through a social science lens, the programme will explore practice with young people and their communities in an applied manner, with a clear commitment to social justice, anti-oppressive practice, and underpinned by the core values and principles of youth work.
The course prepares students to become professionals to work with young people around a variety of issues – issues which are very current in today’s society, such as Child Sexual Exploitation, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Homelessness, Substance Misuse, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Poverty and Obesity among young people – and exploring these in an applied manner, drawing on current research and best practice to equip graduates to be highly effective and reflective in their chosen fields. The programme aligns fully with Welsh Government’s commitment to “develop and strengthen specific provision aimed at supporting and improving outcomes for more vulnerable or marginalised young people’’ (WG, 2019, p.13).
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Course Disclaimer
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We listen to student feedback and insights from industry and from professionals to ensure that course content is high-quality and up-to-date, and that it offers the best possible preparation for your future career or study goals.
For this reason, there might be modifications to the content of your course over time, to keep up to date with changes in the subject area or in the sector. If a module is no longer running, we’ll make sure to keep you informed, and work with you to choose a different suitable module.
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Staff
Our People
You will be taught and supported by a wide range of professional staff and teams here to help you get the university experience you are looking for. Our teaching staff were ranked 2nd in Wales for Teaching, Assessment and Feedback and Academic Support (NSS 2024) meaning that the support and feedback you get will help you learn and develop strong academic skills. Our students have placed us 1st in Wales for Learning Opportunities and Student Voice (NSS 2024) meaning that there are a wide range of opportunities available to enhance your studies and that students play an active role in shaping their learning experiences. Our commitment to your learning has seen our students place us as 1st in Wales and joint 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (Times Higher Education, 2024, ‘Overall Positivity’ measure). Find out more about our academic staff who teach across our courses.
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Further information
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All applicants will be required to provide a satisfactory enhanced disclosure Child and Adult Workforce document from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The programme requirements are between 80 and 96 points and above, however entry to the programme is based on individual merit.
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Assessments are designed to reflect the requirements of the field and develop wide-ranging employability skills in students. There are no exams.
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Mandatory:
None.Necessarily incurred:
Travel costs to and from placements (one placement at each level of study).Optional:
Students who decide to take the opportunity to study abroad for one semester at Level 5 will incur additional costs associated with this;
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You may be eligible for funding to help support your study. To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available please visit our Scholarships and Bursaries section.
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There is also an opportunity for students to study abroad as part of their studies in the second year, in Finland or British Columbia.
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Due to their aspirations when applying for a place on the degree programme, many of our graduates find employment directly in the youth work field, in both the voluntary and maintained sectors. However, the youth work qualification is known for its transferability to wider associated fields, thus demonstrating how the skills that the graduates have developed while studying on the degree programme can be transferred into many settings, and skills that are welcomed within multidisciplinary teams.
Here are some specific examples of graduate destinations:
- Face to face youth work in a range of contexts including in schools, corporate parenting teams, post-16 work, Local Authority youth homeless projects
- Education Welfare Officer
- Work with organisations focussing on issues including substance misuse, projects which support homeless young people and others that focus on adoption, looked after young people, and young adult carers
- Community education
- Youth justice
- Local Health Board
- Students Union President
- PGL Activity Instructor and Group Leader
- Young People’s Peer Mentor for a national mental health charity
- Emotional Health Worker for a Local Authority Youth Service
- CAMHS Support Worker
- Family Support for young people with disabilities
- Post-16 Youth Worker for a Local Authority Youth Service
- Youth Worker with the Corporate Parenting Team at Local Authority Youth Service
- Unit Co-ordinator with a Childcare Team at a Local Authority
- Corporate Manager at a Local Authority Youth Service
- Senior Youth Officers at a Local Authority Youth Service
Many graduates decide to engage in further study. Recent graduates’ MA programmes include:
- Children and Young People: Health and Wellbeing (MA), ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
- Children and Young People: Children’s Rights (MA), ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
- Women and Child Abuse (MA), London Metropolitan University
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (MA), Swansea University
- Social Enterprise (MSc), Stirling University