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The Faculty of Education has a well-established national reputation for the delivery of high-quality Initial Teacher Training (ITT) across the full range of age phases alongside a substantial track record in supporting partner schools and colleges in school improvement initiatives.

Edge Hill becomes only English university graded Ofsted ‘outstanding’ in all three teacher training age phases

The University was awarded the highest grade for ‘overall effectiveness’ across primary, secondary, and further education and training – inspectors judged the quality of education, and leadership and management to be outstanding.

Edge Hill awarded ‘Outstanding’ by Oftsted

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BSc (Hons) Secondary Mathematics Education with QTS student, Lukas Allsworth

Finding the right university was extremely important and Edge Hill has everything I was looking for and more.

Lukas Allsworth

BSc (Hons) Secondary Mathematics Education with QTS

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BA (Hons) Primary Early Years Education with QTS alumni, Elias Hughes

The early years of education is a fun, creative place where you can see the difference you are making to children’s lives.

Elias Hughes

BA (Hons) Primary Early Years Education with QTS

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Primary Education with QTS, Meg Davis

Teaching is not just inspiring new generations, it is being actively part of that formation yourself.

Meg Davis

BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

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Secondary English Education with QTS student, Lina Martins

My placement has been a huge learning experience, as I had never attended an English high school. It was definitely the most memorable moment of my degree so far.

Lina Martins

BA (Hons) Secondary English Education with QTS

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Secondary Mathematics Education with QTS student, Hafsah Nakhuda, completing maths sums on an interactive whiteboard at the front of a classroom.

I really like the passion all the lectures have at the university. This was something that really stuck with me when I first came to the open day.

Hafsah Nakhuda

BSc (Hons) Secondary Mathematics Education with QTS

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Education and Religion student Lucy

The course is not at all what I was expecting when I chose to study Religion. But in a good way. We look at religion through lots of different lenses, including sexuality, gender, feminism, family origins and disability, which I hadn’t even considered before.

Lucy Hulme

BA (Hons) Education and Religion

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Peter Bradley professional photo

The world is massive and there’s lots to discover, but since joining Edge Hill, I’ve realised there’s just as much to discover about yourself.

Peter Bradley

BA (Hons) Children and Young People’s Learning and Development

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Primary Education with QTS alumni student, Freddie Berry

Studying at Edge Hill gave me the support, expertise, and challenge needed to become a confident class teacher.

Freddie Berry

BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

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Alice Featherstone wearing a volunteer lanyard

Edge Hill offers constant support for students no matter what the problem is, which is something I found very helpful in my first year.

Alice Featherstone

BA (Hons) Education and English

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Hannah Baskeyfield professional image

That moment when a child understands a concept for the first time, it’s the most rewarding thing.

Hannah Baskeyfield

BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

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Secondary Religious Education with QTS student, Claire McFadden

The place, the people and the support is unmatched. I am proud to say I attend Edge Hill University.

Claire McFadden

BA (Hons) Secondary Religious Education with QTS

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rebecca atherton

I had never gone to university before and had several years away from education, but my tutors at Edge Hill were very supportive from the start.

Rebecca Atherton

Early Years Education and Leadership

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Kyle Brocklehurst BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

My favourite thing about my degree is the people and the opportunities. Everybody is so friendly and supportive.

Kyle Brocklehurst

BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

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MA Education (Leadership) student, Steve Clark

The best thing about Edge Hill is the encouragement to develop and grow as an individual thinker, and to develop a creative way of looking at the world of education.

Steve Clark

MA Education (Leadership)

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Secondary Geography with QTS (11-16) student, Annabelle Hawley, wearing graduation robes and a mortar board

Studying my PGCE at Edge Hill has drastically changed my confidence academically and socially.

Annabelle Hawley

PGCE Secondary Geography with QTS (11-16)

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Secondary Geography with QTS (11-16) student, Charlotte Smith

I wanted to find a way to share my passion with pupils showing them the importance of our world, and this course is allowing me to achieve this.

Charlotte Smith

PGCE Secondary Geography with QTS (11-16)

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I thoroughly enjoyed my three-year BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology. The tutors were all fantastic, with a wide variety of module options allowing me to broaden my knowledge in the third year.

Hollie Wilkinson

PGCE Primary Mathematics Specialist with QTS

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Primary Education with QTS student, Sophie Dottie

I’ve been given plenty of opportunities for continued professional development, and all my theory work is put into context either with real-life examples from my tutors, or when I see it first hand out on professional practice.

Sophie Dottie

PGCE Primary Education with QTS

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Alumni student Emma Spink

This programme at Edge Hill is a great way to enter the wonderful world of teaching.

Emma Spink

PGCE Primary Early Years Education with QTS

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Alumni student Rosie Tootell

A PGCE provides insight into what goes into teaching – planning, creating resources, the theories behind teaching and learning, and what is best practice.

Rosie Tootell

PGDE Post-14 Education.

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Mica Jayne Coleman Jones

Completing this course has given me opportunities to reframe the problems I have identified in education as opportunities to find improved solutions.

Mica Jayne Coleman Jones

MA Education

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A photo of Lydia Wakeham in a school classroom.

Edge Hill University has a fantastic reputation especially for education and teaching. After visiting an open day and meeting the lecturers I knew that Edge Hill was the place I wanted to study.

Lydia Wakeham

PGCE Primary Education with QTS

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Megan McGarry PGCE Secondary Physical Education with QTS

Whilst on placement in a school based in Liverpool, I have learnt new things every day.

Megan McGarry

PGCE Secondary Physical Education with QTS (11-16)

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Edge Hill University
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP
United Kingdom