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Undergraduate courses/Education courses/Education Studies with Mandarin

Key facts

Entry requirements

104 or DMM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

XR40

Institution code

D26

Duration

3 yrs full-time

Three years full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

2025/26 international tuition:
£16,250

Additional costs

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Entry requirements

104 or DMM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

XR40

Duration

Three years full-time

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Combine your passion for education with Mandarin language skills to stand out in the global job market and unlock diverse career opportunities.

Did you know that Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world?

In today’s global job market, proficiency in an additional language is a valuable asset. By combining Education Studies with Mandarin, you will develop a unique skill set that enhances your employability and sets you apart from other graduates. Learning a language not only expands career opportunities but also strengthens cognitive skills, critical thinking, and communication—highly transferable across multiple sectors.

At DMU, you can study Mandarin at a level that suits you—beginner, GCSE (intermediate), or advanced—allowing you to progress at your own pace while deepening your understanding of Chinese culture and society.

Alongside language study, you will explore key Education Studies modules such as Perspectives on Education, Inclusion and Diversity, Understanding Learning and Wellbeing, and Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity. You will also take part in weekly language practice sessions and intensive workshops, gaining insight into Mandarin-speaking cultures and their impact on education.

  • Specialised skills: Learn Mandarin while exploring educational perspectives, with the flexibility to specialise in your areas of interest. Optional modules include Creativity in Education, Radical Education, and Music in the Life of the Primary School.
  • A pathway to teaching: This course provides a foundation for Initial Teacher Training (ITT), supporting your journey to becoming a qualified teacher in the UK.
  • Real world application: Boost your CV with placements and volunteering in schools, museums, and community learning centres, where you can apply your knowledge in professional settings.
  • Industry-informed teaching: Delivered by experienced academics and informed by industry professionals, ensuring content is relevant to current challenges and best practices in education.
  • International experience: As part of DMU Global, previous students have studied museum education in Amsterdam, studies on inequality in New York, and refugee support projects in Berlin.
  • Focused learning: Block teaching lets you focus on one subject at a time, with a balanced schedule for better engagement.

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What you will study

In Block 1 and 2, you will also have one hour (two hours for Beginners) of language conversation weekly.

An Introduction to Education: History and Academic Discipline

Perspectives on Education

Beginner or Post-Beginner Mandarin

Contemporary and Evidence-Based Issues in Education

In Block 1 and 2, you will also have one hour (two hours for Post-Beginners) of language conversation weekly.

Ways of Learning and Wellbeing

Research Methods in Education

Post-Beginner or Intermediate Mandarin

Inclusion and Diversity

In Block 1 and 2, you will also have one hour (two hours for Intermediate) of language conversation weekly.

Choice of modules

  • Creativity in Education
  • Radical Education
  • Global and Comparative Education
  • Music in the Life of the Primary School

Choice of modules

  • The Practice and Policies of Primary Education
  • Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity 
  • Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity

Intermediate or Advanced Mandarin 

Dissertation

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, independent research and self-directed study. In your first year you will normally attend around 9 hours of timetabled taught sessions (workshops and seminars) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 30 further hours of independent study each week to complete preparation tasks, assessments and research.

Assessment may include, but is not limited to:

  • Presentations
  • Micro-teaching sessions
  • Contributions to electronic discussion boards
  • Creating wikis and lesson planning
  • Blogs
  • Essays
  • Negotiated assignment
  • Research project
  • Portfolio
  • Co-production activities
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The facilities and spaces in the Hawthorn Building are designed to replicate current practice in health and life sciences, including contemporary analytical chemistry and formulation laboratories, audiology booths and nursing and midwifery clinical skills suites.

Purpose-built clinical skills areas allow you to practice in a safe environment. You will receive guidance and support from expert academic and technical staff.

Recently renovated, the Undercroft offers dedicated break out spaces and study spaces allowing for collaborative and interprofessional learning beyond the classroom.

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Nursing facilities in the building and others on campus, allow our students to learn in clinical settings.
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Our expertise

Education Studies staff have professional experience across all stages of learning and education from primary schooling through to adult learning, nationally and internationally.

Staff are members of a number of professional associations including the British Education Research Association and British Sociological Association, and are affiliated with research groups including the Centre for Critical Education Policy Studies at the Institute of Education; the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London, DMU Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development and DMU Institute of Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice.

The teaching team includes professors, associate professors, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. The team have a number of notable awards and accolades including the Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award and Director of the Institute for Research in Criminology, Education and Social Justice.

Staff are currently engaged in leading, internally and externally funded research projects relating to their areas of expertise, including:

  • A Germ’s Journey: co-creation of resources for addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals in education & health in low-and-middle-income countries. This participatory research project evaluates whether specifically developed resources (‘A Germ’s Journey’) aid children in India’s understanding of hand-hygiene principles and discusses how the findings can inform the future development of culturally relevant resources for developing countries.
  • Awarding of an Advance HE Good Practice Grant to re-develop our SEND module through co-production with students and practitioners who are disabled, neurodivergent and/or have special educational needs.
  • Race, education and decolonisjng the curriculum
  • Gender and education
  • SEND
  • Creativity and education
  • Sustainability, the environment and wellbeing
  • Technology and education
  • Alternative education
  • Social justice, childhood, youth and education
  • Traveller education
  • Music education and vocal pedagogy
  • Global comparative education
  • Educational transitions and transferable learning

What makes us special

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DMU Global

This is our innovative international experience programme which aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons – helping you to become a global graduate, equipped to meet the needs of employers across the world. Through , we offer a wide range of opportunities including on-campus and UK activities, overseas study, internships, faculty-led field trips and volunteering, as well as international exchanges.

Students on this course have previously undertaken trips to summer schools in Turkey, Japan and South Korea, which offered them the opportunity to learn alongside students from around the world, as well as study unique modules and explore the cities of Istanbul, Fukuoka and Seoul. Other trips have given students the opportunity to teach English to schoolchildren in Taiwan, consider inequality and segregation in New York, and support refugees in Berlin.

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Placements

A key element of our Education Studies programme is for students to gain placement and work-based learning experience. This helps provide you with first-hand knowledge and experience of educational settings and opportunities to apply the theory from your studies to real-world contexts.

In the first year, you will be complete a placement in an educational setting of your choice. You are also offered an optional placement module in your second and third years, as well as have the opportunity to study a number of modules that are embedded with work-based field trips and placement experiences.   

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Graduate careers

This course helps develop skills that are invaluable for graduates who want to build a career working with young people and children. While this can open up opportunities for employment in primary schools, it can also include nurseries as well as other pre and after-school settings.

Many of our recent graduates have started their careers in teaching, education practice, nurseries, youth work, educational publishing and the creative industries. Graduates can also build on their knowledge with postgraduate opportunities, including an Education Practice MA, which opens up opportunities to work in a number of wider educational environments, including youth and community work, local authority employment, social and educational research and early years settings.

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Course specifications

Course title

Education Studies with Mandarin

Award

BA (Hons)

UCAS code

XR40

Institution code

D26

Study level

Undergraduate

Study mode

Full-time

Start date

September

Duration

Three years full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

2025/26 international tuition:
£16,250

*subject to the government, as is expected, passing legislation to formalise the increase.

Additional costs

Entry requirements

  • 104 points from at least 2 A Levels
  • BTEC Extended Diploma DMM
  • International Baccalaureate: 24+ Points or
  • T Levels Merit

Plus five GCSEs grades 9-4 including English Language or Literature at grade 4 or above.

  • Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit (or equivalent) and GCSE English (Language or Literature) at grade 4 or above.

We will normally require students have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.

Note: Applicants with non-standard qualifications may be asked to complete a piece of work to support their application.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 overall is essential.

English language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.

Contextual offers

To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application, we consider more than just your grades. So if you are eligible, you may receive a contextual offer. Find out more about contextual offers.

This course is for students who intend to build a career working with young children. While this is most likely to mean employment in primary schools, it can also include nursery and other pre-school and after-school settings.

  • Personal statement selection criteria
  • Clear communication skills, including good grammar and spelling
  • Information relevant to the course applied for
  • Interest in the course demonstrated with explanation and evidence
  • If relevant for the course — work and life experience

DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check

You must submit an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure application form before starting the course (if you are overseas you will also need to submit a criminal records certificate from your home country), which needs to be cleared in accordance with DMU’s admissions policy. Contact us for up-to-date information.

We strongly advise that you opt for the DBS update service as it is possible that future placement providers may request a recent DBS and not one from the start of the programme. If you decide not to opt for this service then you will have to pay for the DBS again if requested by your placement provided – the university will not cover this cost.

UCAS tariff information

Students applying for courses starting in September will be made offers based on the latest UCAS Tariff.

Additional costs

The core textbooks for all modules are available in the Kimberlin Library, and journal articles in your reading lists are also mostly available electronically from your myDMU login.

Some students like to purchase their own text books or print course documents and we suggest allowing approximately £200 per year for this.

All students are required to pay for their DBS check if required for your programme or placement.

In addition students will be required to pay for their travel costs to placements or project locations.

All students are provided the opportunity to participate in DMU Global trips. These trips are subsidised by the University, and the cost and subsidy varies by location.

Learn more about fees and funding information.