How long is the BEd in Teaching & Learning?

The BEd in Teaching & Learning is a three-year full-time UK honours degree, with part-time and accelerated routes available online and via distance learning under a shared assessment calendar.

Can I study the BEd in Teaching & Learning online?

Yes. The BEd in Teaching & Learning is delivered on-campus, fully online with live teaching practices, or by distance learning with structured residential blocks and supervised classroom placements.

Does the BEd in Teaching & Learning lead directly to QTS?

The BEd in Teaching & Learning prepares you for a QTS-track ITT route but does not in itself confer QTS, which is awarded by the Department for Education through an approved ITT provider.

What are the entry requirements?

For the BEd in Teaching & Learning you need three A-levels at BBC or equivalent, GCSE English at 5/C, Maths at 4/C (Science 4/C for primary), IELTS 6.5 and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

What does the BEd cost and are scholarships available?

Fees for the BEd in Teaching & Learning vary by route and domicile; merit and access scholarships are reviewed each intake — contact LSCT admissions for the current fee schedule.

BEd in Teaching & Learning — UK Honours Degree | LSCT | Harold International College of London

Course Overview

The BEd in Teaching & Learning at LSCT sits inside the Education & Professional Studies department and is a three-year UK honours degree for students who want to teach — in UK state schools, independent schools or internationally — and need a degree that is genuinely classroom-facing rather than only academic. Delivered on-campus, fully online with live teaching practices, or by structured distance learning, the programme combines pedagogy, subject knowledge and supervised classroom practice. Note that QTS is awarded separately by the Department for Education through an approved provider; this BEd prepares you for that route but is not in itself a QTS award.

From the first term you will be planning lessons, observing teachers, running small-group teaching with supervised feedback and writing reflective journals against the Teachers' Standards. By graduation you have a portfolio of lesson plans, observed teaching feedback and a dissertation grounded in classroom-relevant research.

The BEd in Teaching & Learning timetable is built around UK assessment realities: continuous coursework that produces the artefacts employers actually ask for, plus end-of-module case-based assessments rather than rote examinations. Tutors include working practitioners drawn from London-borough teaching networks and the wider DfE estate — not only academics — so the standard being marked against is the standard education employers apply at first interview. Students join one cohort intake per year, so the cohort moves through the programme together and forms the working network that matters when first education-sector job applications start going out.

Key Features

UK honours degree aligned to the DfE Teachers' Standards and the Chartered College of Teaching early-career framework.
Three study modes — on-campus, fully online with live teaching practices, or distance learning with structured residential blocks.
School placement programme across the three years, partnered with UK schools in the London region or distance equivalents internationally.
Subject-knowledge strand in English, Maths or Primary Curriculum, depending on chosen pathway.
SEND and inclusion module mapped to the SEND Code of Practice and adaptive-teaching evidence.
Behaviour-and-culture practicum drawing on Tom Bennett and DfE guidance.

What You Will Learn

Graduates leave able to plan and teach a coherent sequence of lessons, assess and feedback to pupils, adapt for SEND, manage a classroom and reflect on practice to a Teachers'-Standards-aligned standard. Modules include:

Pedagogy and Learning Theory
Curriculum Design and Sequencing
Adaptive Teaching and SEND
Behaviour for Learning
Assessment and Feedback
Subject Knowledge (English, Maths or Primary)
Safeguarding (Keeping Children Safe in Education)
Education Research Methods
Dissertation and Capstone Practice Portfolio

Who This Course Is For

A-level leavers aiming at UK teaching careers via a QTS-track ITT route.
Teaching assistants and cover supervisors moving towards qualified-teacher status.
International students preparing for UK or international teaching qualifications.
Mature applicants from other careers entering education as a second career.

Career Pathways

Graduates feed UK and international teaching pathways. After QTS (awarded separately), typical roles include:

Qualified Teacher (after ITT/QTS route, primary or secondary)
Teaching Assistant (senior or specialist)
International School Teacher (where QTS is not always required)
Tutor (private or supplementary education)
Education Officer (museums, charities)
SEND Support Specialist (with further training)

The degree is a strong foundation for an Early-Career-Framework-aligned QTS route, NPQML or an MA in Education.

One pragmatic note for prospective applicants: UK schools, colleges, nurseries and adult-learning providers are recruiting beyond pre-pandemic levels, and the BEd in Teaching & Learning is designed to produce the documented portfolio that gets a CV read rather than only an academic transcript that does not. Coursework is structured so that, on graduation, you can hand a hiring manager three or four pieces of evidence — a project, a report, a deck, a documented intervention — that map directly to a published UK job description. Personal academic tutors also run two one-to-one careers conversations during the programme to keep that mapping honest.

Entry Requirements

Three A-levels at grades BBC or above, or an equivalent UK / international qualification (IB 28+, BTEC DMM, Foundation Year pass).
GCSE English Language at grade 5/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C — a statutory requirement for QTS-track progression. GCSE Science at 4/C is required for some primary routes.
IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
A personal statement, satisfactory enhanced DBS check and one piece of written work submitted with your application; mature applicants (21+) may apply with a portfolio and short interview.

Why Study at LSCT

The London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a specialist higher-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies so qualifications carry weight with employers. London puts Whitehall, the City, Silicon Roundabout, the Royal Courts of Justice, the West End and the NHS estate within a short tube ride of every classroom — and our students use that proximity in their projects, placements and graduate job hunts. For BEd students that means placements with London schools, sessions chaired by Chartered College of Teaching fellows and live case material from London ITT partnerships.

The teaching model is small-cohort and tutor-led on purpose. Discussion-based seminars, regular formative feedback and structured peer-review are how professional-judgement is built — none of which scales to large lecture halls. Personal academic tutors are assigned at enrolment, and every student has a named contact for academic, pastoral and career-related questions. UK and international students mix in every cohort, which becomes an active strength in case sessions, group projects and the education-sector network that follows you after graduation.

Beyond classroom contact, the BEd in Teaching & Learning makes deliberate use of UK-specific resources that international comparators cannot reach as easily: open government data on the gov.uk estate, parliamentary publications, House of Commons Library briefings, Bank of England datasets, ONS releases and the open-access research output of British universities. Throughout the programme, tutors expect professional-judgement writing — reflective, evidence-based and aware of statutory frameworks. Graduates often describe leaving LSCT with a set of writing and analytical habits they continue to use across a UK career — not only a transcript and a portfolio.

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