Middlesbrough,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
PgDip Youth and Community Work in Sheffield United Kingdom | Teesside University
Teesside University
|
Sheffield United Kingdom
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Qualification
Graduate Diploma
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
GBP
16,500
(c. USD22,124.85)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
Enhance your knowledge of empowering youth and communities, addressing marginalization, and fostering opportunities for personal growth. Study essential concepts and practical learning while building professional resilience to navigate the changing needs of employers.
Advance your expertise by showcasing your ability to grow through ongoing personal and professional development. Cultivate teamwork skills to effectively engage with youth organizations, assessing policy impacts and quality improvement processes.
Align with youth worker standards, gaining techniques to encourage and guide young people toward success through creative approaches. Master inclusive, adaptive, and innovative informal education methods. Grow into a confident, analytical, and visionary leader by connecting theory to evidence-based practice. Develop a critical understanding of current challenges in community and youth work, refining skills like reflective learning, ethical responsibility, and professional integrity. Much of this work involves project-based initiatives tackling topics such as educational support, life skills development, healthy decision-making, empowerment, substance use, mental health, sexual well-being, poverty, exploitation prevention, mentoring, crime reduction, advisory services, homelessness, employment support, domestic violence prevention, and arts, sports, and music programs.
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.5
Qualification Requirements
To apply you need:
a first degree (minimum of 2:2). If you do not meet this criterion but can demonstrate significant experience and/or further study, you may be considered.
a personal statement demonstrating relevant work or voluntary experience with young people or adults in a community setting.
As part of the admissions process, and prior to an offer being made, you need to:
complete and pass a formal interview and written exercise
confirm your ability to complete 400 practice placement hours in an appropriate context during your first year (200 hours each semester)
demonstrate intellectual and academic suitability for the course
demonstrate the appropriate attitudes and values expected of someone working with young people or adults in a community setting
be able to communicate clearly and accurately in standard English
complete a satisfactory Occupational Health Clearance (further details will be provided)
complete a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
provide a completed Declaration of Suitability for Youth Work form
confirm you have basic IT skills including word-processing, internet browsing and email.
International students:
You should have the equivalent of a 2:2 undergraduate degree in any discipline and a minimum overall IELTS (academic) score of 6.5 with 6 in each component (or approved equivalent).
PTE (Academic) - 62
Cambridge English scale - 176
Trinity Integrated Skills in English -ISE II Distinction
a first degree (minimum of 2:2). If you do not meet this criterion but can demonstrate significant experience and/or further study, you may be considered.
a personal statement demonstrating relevant work or voluntary experience with young people or adults in a community setting.
As part of the admissions process, and prior to an offer being made, you need to:
complete and pass a formal interview and written exercise
confirm your ability to complete 400 practice placement hours in an appropriate context during your first year (200 hours each semester)
demonstrate intellectual and academic suitability for the course
demonstrate the appropriate attitudes and values expected of someone working with young people or adults in a community setting
be able to communicate clearly and accurately in standard English
complete a satisfactory Occupational Health Clearance (further details will be provided)
complete a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
provide a completed Declaration of Suitability for Youth Work form
confirm you have basic IT skills including word-processing, internet browsing and email.
International students:
You should have the equivalent of a 2:2 undergraduate degree in any discipline and a minimum overall IELTS (academic) score of 6.5 with 6 in each component (or approved equivalent).
PTE (Academic) - 62
Cambridge English scale - 176
Trinity Integrated Skills in English -ISE II Distinction
Tuition
GBP
16,500