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Study Details: MA 1 year full time, 2 years part time
If you have a degree, and ideally experience of working with young people, then this is the course for you. You may want to become a (JNC) Professionally Recognised Youth Worker or gain a Masters level postgraduate qualification, or both! This course will provide you with an opportunity to both study and work in Children and Young People Services across differing settings and contexts giving you the freedom to guide your career the way you want to.
This course is approved and endorsed by the National Youth Agency.
What you’ll study
There are two routes within the Masters degree:
This pathway will enable the critical reflection of practice incorporating the related module themes. It will enable you to apply sociological thinking to real world issues and problems in relation to the practice context.
Your practice will be observed and assessed against the Youth Work National Occupational Standards or ‘NOS’ (2019) and will require a minimum of 400hrs professional practice placement. On completion of the endorsed route, you will be eligible to apply for Youth Work roles nationally with JNC professionally qualified status.
Why choose this course
This course explores a number of social, educational, and informal education perspectives, and is mapped against the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work (2019). This makes the course ideal for those interested in the study of Young People, but specifically those who are keen to pursue a career within the Youth Work /Working with Young People sector.
We work closely with employers in the statutory and independent sectors to ensure our course content retains a focus of supporting young people. It also helps to ensure that you are ready for professional practice when you qualify.
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You might be able to get a scholarship to help fund your studies. We award scholarships to those students who can demonstrate excellent achievement, passion and dedication to their studies.
Graduates will have acquired transferable skills for employment, which are highly valued by employers in a range of occupational sectors. Examples of these include:
Graduates may go on to lead projects and work with young people in a variety of roles, where they could offer generic or specialised support (e.g. knife crime, unemployment, health and wellbeing). In addition to Youth Services, organisations which may employ graduates from this course include Education providers; Charities; These could be local, national or international organisations.
Drawing on the research traditions of Youth, this course has wide application within the field of social/informal education, education, sociology, criminology, politics and psychology.
You will be joining a course that explores the most significant social, cultural and economic changes that affect the lives of young people today, and engages with contemporary debates that explain and theorise young people’s lives.
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