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Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Location
Main Site
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP-21
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Duration
3 Years
Course summary
**Reasons to choose Kingston**– This course is accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Once you graduate, you can apply to register with the HCPC to start work as a qualified social worker.– You’ll use our award-winning Practice Learning Suite, with simulated interactions with service users (on doorsteps, in living rooms, in reception areas and interview spaces).– This course received 100 per cent overall student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2018).**About this course**Social work is a caring profession with a vast scope. It has both employment opportunities and opportunities to improve people’s lives. This course offers hands-on experience of social work and a supporting foundation in ethics, diversity, psychology, sociology, social policy and law. You’ll study mental health, disability, adoption, fostering, substance misuse, children in conflict with the law, and domestic violence. You’ll choose a specialist area to explore in depth in your final year. There are placements in field, residential, daycare, hospital, prison and service user-run settings. To support your work on placement, you’ll study assessment, intervention, evaluation, safeguarding, law and best practice with adults and children.
Application deadline
15 January
Tuition fees
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Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
Entry requirements
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QUALIFICATION TYPE
- A level
- Scottish Higher
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- UCAS Points
- Access to HE Diploma
- GCSE/National 4/National 5
- HNC (BTEC)
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- Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
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- OCR Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma
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- Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
A level : BBB
Other A Level combinations possible to achieve 120 points.Minimum of 2 A Levels, can be combined with other Level 3 qualifications eg. AS levels/Extended Project to achieve 120 points
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University League Table
100th
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Campus address
Kingston University, River House, 53-57 High Street, Kingston upon Thames, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1LQ, England
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Subject ranking
63rd out of 83 14
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Entry standards
/ Max 177111 64%59th
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Graduate prospects
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 53.86 77%69th
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