Primary Education (Accelerated Degree)

Fast track your future in education. Earn your primary education degree in just two years and start making a difference to children’s lives sooner.

Fast-track your career
If you’re passionate about helping children thrive and want to progress into the classroom, this accelerated primary education course gets you there sooner.

You'll complete your degree in just two intensive years, without compromising academic depth, while developing the confidence, critical thinking, and real-world experience needed to work with children across the primary age range.

This course takes a child-centred, reflective approach to education. You’ll explore how children learn and develop, question current practice, and engage with the social and educational issues shaping schools today.

As part of this primary education course, you'll:
- Learn from experienced educators and specialists with backgrounds across schools and the wider education sector


- Explore key module themes including social justice, inclusive practice, child development, the National Curriculum, and educational policy


• Build confidence and professional skills through supported placements, working directly with children in real learning environments



- Connect theory to practice, deepening your understanding of teaching and learning in action


You’ll graduate with a strong academic foundation, professional confidence, and a clear sense of direction, ready for the next step in your education chapter.

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Placements that bring learning to life
We work closely with local schools and education providers to ensure your studies reflect current classroom practice. The degree provides an ideal opportunity for you to identify your chosen pathway into primary education. You’ll be immersed in children’s learning environments, observing how priority areas such as EAL, SEND, and the teaching of core subjects are addressed across the primary phase. Alongside this, you’ll undertake a block placement in a primary school and gain experience in a range of wider educational settings, including galleries, museums, pupil referral units, family centres, and charities. Your placements will help you build practical experience and enhance your employability.

Placements also give you the opportunity to:


• Plan and deliver cross-curricular activities



• Support children in the classroom



• Gain insight into primary school education and wider children’s services



• Build experience beyond traditional settings, including outdoor learning centres and alternative and specialist learning provision



These experiences help you grow in confidence, refine your strengths, and make informed choices about your future in education and child-focused careers.

Why study the BA Primary Education (Accelerated) course at Leeds Beckett University?
- 99% of students were positive about the teaching on BA (Hons) Primary Education (Accelerated Degree) (National Student Survey 2026)


• Graduate in just two years, without compromising the quality of your education



• Build real world experience through placements in schools and specialist settings



• Designed to propel you into postgraduate teacher training, including PGCE with QTS programmes



• No formal exams – you’ll be assessed through coursework and practical learning while you develop broad primary-phase knowledge

Curiosity needs thinkers, makers, and dreamers. It needs you!

Leeds Beckett believes that when unlike minds come together, incredible things happen. That’s why they don’t just teach; they collaborate, challenge and inspire.

Their courses are meticulously designed, combining practical experience through work placements with a vibrant location at the heart of one of the UK’s largest student communities. Boasting a top 10 UK ranking for both course quality and student life (Unicompare 2026) and a prestigious five-star QS rating, LBU sets the standard for excellence.

The university prioritises student wellbeing and stands among just seven universities nationwide to earn the University Mental Health Charter Award - proof of their unwavering commitment to advancing mental health and wellbeing.

All of this is why 98% of Leeds Beckett students and graduates would recommend studying at the university to a friend (Unicompare, 2024 reviews).