BA(Hons) Youth and Community Work: University of East London

About the programme

The location: Within the UEL School of Education in the middle of the massive regeneration zone centred on Stratford , also the new gateway to Europe . You will be studying in the area where policy makers are exploring new ways of dealing with youth and community issues, from the inner city to the reaches of the Thames Gateway.

The programme explores youth and community issues within the scope of a wide range of co-ordinates, embracing diversity, citizenship, arts and education, underpinned by the United Nations Charters on Human Rights and the Child. This programme is professionally validated by the National Youth Agency.

Career opportunities

• A degree in Youth and Community Work from UEL will show a prospective employer that you have developed critical skills in the field, that you are a flexible and thoughtful practitioner, and that you have also developed transferable practical skills in researching, leadership and management and writing presenting and organising ideas along side working in youth and community settings.
• Progression to further study at UEL: MA Youth and Community Studies (subject to validation)
• Career paths: youth work and community work; children’s services, youth offending, local authorities and national government; jobs in regeneration zones with a community or youth focus.

Admission requirments

• Applicants need 200 UCAS tariff points.
• One to two years experience of youth or community work, voluntary or paid.
• No criminal record which would prevent the student working with children or young people.