School of Education and Continuing Studies (SECS)
Occupations
The proof of employability skills is, of course, becoming employed. As approximately 50% of graduate programmes do not depend on your having followed a specific degree programme, the roles that you will be able to apply for after a course within SECS may be drawn a wide range of the job market based on the value of the skills you will have developed. These include:
- Education and training (policy, teaching);
- Postgraduate study;
- Police, Probation, Prisons, Youth justice and Forensics;
- Media, Journalism, Publishing, Communications and Public Relations;
- Local, national, European government and politics;
- Social and community work (voluntary sector, charities);
- Heritage, Libraries, Museums and Archives;
- Journalism;
- Research (government, pressure groups, think tanks, companies, charities, criminal justice sector);
- Teaching and lecturing (schools, colleges, Universities)
- Health care and health promotion;
- HR and Personnel;
- Advertising and marketing; and
- Financial services, insurance etc.
Other occupations are open to you based on the specific knowledge and skills you have gained in your studies with us. These include:
- Adult education lecturer
- Advice worker
- Careers adviser/personal adviser
- Child psychotherapist / counsellor
- Community development worker
- Community education officer
- Early years teacher
- Education administrator
- Educational psychologist
- Equality and diversity officer
- Further education lecturer
- Health promotion specialist
- Learning mentor
- Museum education officer
- Primary school teacher
- Secondary school teacher
- Secondary school teacher
- Social worker
- Special educational needs teacher
- Speech and language therapist
- Training and development officer
- Youth worker
Destination data based on lists provided by Prospects: http://www.prospects.ac.uk/