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9 Feb 2009 11:44:09
The Government has granted the University of Bedfordshire an additional 40 primary teacher training places, to meet the predicted shortage of primary school teachers in the local area.
University of Bedfordshire is bucking the national trend as surrounding towns Luton and Milton Keynes expand.
The University is also offering new teacher training courses in secondary education to teach 14 to 19-year-olds Applied Society, Health and Development, and Applied Creative and Media, as well as over ten other subjects at secondary level.
Employees at risk of losing their job or those thinking about a career change during the current economic downturn are being encouraged to return to education.
Paul Davies, Head of the University’s School of Education, said: “In some areas of the country there is a massive oversupply of primary teachers, but we have been awarded extra numbers over the next two years as the population of the surrounding area increases. We are very pleased to offer new training places as unemployment rises.
“For our applied secondary subject teacher training places we are looking for people with experience in industry who maybe looking for a career change, as the subjects are vocationally orientated. During a recession there’s never been a better time to retrain and there’s a lot of financial support available.”
More than 40 per cent of the University’s students are aged over 25 when they start studying and there are a vast array of courses to re-skill including teaching, nursing, social work and numerous business studies courses. A course which attracts a lot of mature students is creative writing, which sees graduates go on to become writers, teachers or researchers.
Student Margaret Harvey-Smith, 63, said: “Coming back to learning has been a very positive experience for me. There are hundreds of prospective mature students out there who could find themselves at university and probably don’t realise what is available.”
For further information about studying at the University of Bedfordshire contact 01582 489286.
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