English with Secondary Education

English with secondary education is a degree for students who want to develop a serious engagement with literature and language while also preparing for a career in secondary school teaching. The English component develops your capacity to read, analyse, and interpret texts across different periods, genres, and traditions, building the subject knowledge that an English teacher needs alongside the critical and communicative skills that the discipline cultivates. The secondary education component develops your understanding of pedagogy, child development, curriculum design, and the professional contexts in which secondary teachers work.

At Nottingham Trent University, this three-year, full-time degree takes you through the first two years at the City Campus alongside BA English students, developing your literary and language skills in a shared scholarly community, before you move to the Clifton Campus in the third year to focus on the educational dimensions of the programme. This structure ensures that your subject knowledge is developed to a high level before the professional and pedagogical dimension takes centre stage. The programme is designed to provide a coherent pathway into secondary English teaching, giving you both the academic grounding and the professional understanding that effective teaching requires.

The typical entry tariff of 136 points reflects strong but accessible academic expectations.

Graduates of English with secondary education are well positioned to progress to a postgraduate teacher training qualification such as the PGCE, which leads to qualified teacher status in England. The combination of subject knowledge and educational understanding developed through the degree makes applicants particularly attractive to initial teacher training providers. Secondary English teachers are consistently in demand across UK schools, and the career provides both intellectual engagement and the satisfaction of making a genuine difference to young people's literacy and love of literature.

Many graduates also go into educational support, tutoring, publishing, and a range of roles where English subject knowledge and an understanding of education are both relevant.