Secondary English Education With Qts

Secondary English education with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is a degree designed for people who want to teach English in secondary schools and who want to enter the classroom as fully qualified professionals at the point of graduation. English is one of the most important subjects in the secondary curriculum, central to students' literacy, their ability to communicate, their engagement with literature and ideas, and their success across all other subjects and in later life. Teaching English well is a complex and rewarding professional task, requiring deep subject knowledge, strong pedagogical skill, and the ability to engage young people of different abilities and backgrounds with a subject that has both practical and cultural significance.

At Edge Hill University, you will study over three years of full-time study, developing both your knowledge of English as a subject and your professional skills as a teacher. The subject knowledge component covers English language and linguistics, literature from a range of periods and traditions, and media and moving image texts, giving you the breadth and depth needed to teach the full secondary English curriculum with confidence. The education component covers pedagogy, curriculum design, assessment, inclusion and special educational needs, and the professional and legal frameworks that govern teaching practice.

Substantial school placement time is built into the programme, and you will spend significant periods teaching in secondary schools under the guidance of experienced mentors, developing your classroom skills and your professional identity as a teacher.

Graduates from this programme leave with QTS, which is the professional qualification that allows them to teach in state-maintained secondary schools in England. The primary career destination is as an English teacher in a secondary school, where career development can lead to subject leadership as a Head of English, pastoral roles, and senior leadership including deputy headship and headship. English teachers are consistently in demand across the UK, and the combination of subject knowledge and professional training that this degree provides is directly employable on graduation.

Further professional development is available through the National Professional Qualifications and postgraduate study in education, which support progression into leadership and specialist roles.