Bachelor Of Arts At Sydney (1 Viewer)

[monzi]

I wanted to know, does a bachelor of arts degree entitle you to do Secondary Teaching ?

Coz im really confused and this hsc is shitting me to the core

CANT WAIT TILL ITS OVER FOR NOW
*SMILE N SHINE* I HAVE 5 EXAMS TO GO!!!!!!!

 

[googy_1985]

You would do a Bachelor of Arts
Then a 1 yr Diploma of Teaching

So in 4 yrs you would be a teacher..

 

[Generator]

You can take some education units in a stand-alone BA (although why you would want to... ?), but you would be better off aiming for an education/arts double degree if you want to take an arts degree and become a teacher.

 

[googy_1985]

For teaching in NSW schools (and I am sure all other states)
You need a Bach of Education, Bach of Teaching or Dip of Teaching/Education...

If you do some 'units' of education in your degree, i don't think that is enough...

 

[Generator]

I didn't say that taking those units would lead you into teaching, I was just noting that you could take them as part of your BA.

 

[White Rabbit]

The UAI for Arts/Education at Sydney is lower than Arts anyway.. it would be easier to get into. But then I left your really limmited on the majors you can do -- I think..

 

[Lexicographer]

The government desperately wants teachers, so Arts/Ed, like Nursing, has special status. No rising UAI apparently.

 

[jnothman]

In terms of area specialisation, I'm sure that's recommended, but not necessarily required. It depends on the school. Particularly, many private schools will be much pickier on what is required above the minimum listed above.

 

[*~Dazed~*]

well you can do a barts if you arent completely sure if teaching is what you want and then you just do one more year and do a diped...
you ARE still qualified to teach... and that one year is apparently really really really intense because you are trying to get all your education subs as well as the subjects you are going to teach... i think a dip ed at the end of it only allows you to teac 2 subjects.. a major and a minor... but then you can always go back as a postgrad and do more...

OR you can do a combined straight away which specifies whether you want humanities, maths etc etc

 

[*~Dazed~*]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
The government desperately wants teachers, so Arts/Ed, like Nursing, has special status. No rising UAI apparently.

thats not true... uai depends on demand and teaching has gone up a great deal in recent years.... they arent going to leave the uai static because then how will they determine who they will cut off? there is a limited number of places in a particular course and they go down the list from applicants with the highest uai, count the nunber of places they have available and then cut it off after the say 100th person... and THAT determines the cut off..

if they were going to leave it and it so happened that the majority of people that applied for teaching were well above the uai... then how would they determine who was accepted

 

[Generator]

By rank, as always. The entrance score doesn't have to be the lowest UAI for the given course, although in most cases it is.