Share and inspire the exploration of Art and Design within the classroom, and the potential futures you could inspire through this engaging and practical course. Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher.

We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' learning. During the course, you will learn how to encourage young peoples understanding of art and design through your subject specialism.

We encourage Art and Design trainees to be:

• enthusiastic and confident in the classroom 
• pedagogically skilful and adaptable 
• specialists in the teaching of Art and Design: demonstrating practical skills and a knowledge of subject history
• able to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum 
• competent in a number of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries 
• able to work as part of a team

The course is designed to ensure you are confident in all basic national curriculum requirements.

Careers service
The University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service which provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice and guidance.

Careers and Employability aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.

We are here to help you plan your future, make the most of your time at University and to enhance your employability. We provide access to part-time jobs, extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and offer practical one-to-one help with career planning, including help with CVs, applications and mock interviews. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and we have a wide range of extensive information covering graduate jobs .