The Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education prepares the student to be aware of the current reality in classrooms, training the so-called teachers of educational change. It is a Degree that seeks to make a vocation the student's future. The program includes extensive language skills training, both in Spanish and English, to respond to the demands of educational administrations and society in general for this profession.
To this end, framed within the European Higher Education Area, it intends to promote the internationalization of students, improving their language skills and their knowledge about other cultures and teaching models. In this way, future teachers will be prepared to teach students according to the educational needs of society.
The changing Spanish society has provoked in universities the need to respond to these demands. The curricula have been updated to satisfy all aspirations and adapt their content to the different problems and needs of the population.
Our students, future educators at the beginning of our children's school life, can choose the way that best suits them to study the Degree: class attendance, blended or online. In this way, it responds to a current demand of students, who need the possibility to combine their studies with their work or family life.
Read moreSome of the general objectives of the program are:
The School of Languages and Education teaches all its degrees in the renovated facilities of the Madrid-Princesa Campus, a few steps from Puerta del Sol and close to museums, galleries, institutions and transport.
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All our degrees and curricula have been prepared in accordance with the new guidelines set by current legislation, having already been verified by the National Agency for Quality Assessment.
The student must complete 240 credits
In accordance with article 12.6 of R.D. 1393/2007 of October 29, students can obtain academic recognition in credits for participation in cultural, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation activities up to a maximum of 6 credits.
The recognition of 6 credits will be assessed depending on the different activities that the student performs throughout his degree. They will be awarded for university cultural activities, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation, or for taking one of the following subjects: Ethics of volunteering or Human Rights.
School internships whose objective is to favor the practical training of the students, under the continuous supervision of a tutor of the University, the academic department of Education and a tutor of the corresponding educational center.
The Professional Internships allow our students to experience their activity as a future professional of education in educational environments, thus combining it with the theoretical knowledge obtained in the different subjects. For this, external internships are carried out in all the academic years.
The evaluation process for each practicum employs a weighted approach to ensure a thorough assessment of acquired skills and knowledge:
The center tutor report carries the primary weight, making up 75% of the total score. This report extensively evaluates the student's performance during their professional internships. Additionally, the Final Practicum Report contributes 25%, allowing students to present a comprehensive summary of their experience and engage in reflective analysis.
The University carries out the allocation of internship placements in the Educational Centers according to the regulations in force in each Autonomous Community.
The procedure for assigning placements is carried out in the following phases:
This project involves the development of research tasks regarding different subjects by the student under the advice of one or several professors of the Department and, occasionally, professionals from the business world. For this, the student has the possibility to choose a project from among those offered.
Nebrija University, which is committed to languages and quality, provides the student with added value with the Diploma in English Professional Communication, which will allow him/her to achieve with confidence the competence demanded to successfully join the labor market.
It corresponds to level C1.
More information hereThe student must take 240 créditos
In order to obtain a Concentration in Foreign Language, students must pass 54 credits of the Curriculum by taking courses that are offered in Spanish and English. Obtaining the concentration in a foreign language requires that the subjects be taken in English.
Below are the subjects that make up the concentration:
The recognition of 6 credits will be arranged according to the different activities that the student carries out throughout his/her degree. They will be awarded for cultural activities, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation, and/or to attend one of the following subjects: Ethics of Volunteering or Human Rights.
A program whose objective is to favor the practical training of the students, under the continuous supervision of the Department of Professional Careers of the University, the academic department corresponding to the degree and the company or collaborating institution where the internships are carried out. We provide advice on the choice of internships and follow-up and tutoring, always considering the professional orientation of each student.
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More information on Internships in CompaniesThis project involves the development of research tasks regarding different subjects by the student under the advice of one or several professors of the Department and, occasionally, professionals from the business world. For this, the student has the possibility to choose a project from among those offered.
Program for: Program aimed at graduated professionals of Early Childhood Education who want to obtain the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education.
Modality: Classroom attendance and distance learning. Schedule adapted to professionals.
Required English level: A2 (Monolingual modality), B2 (Bilingual modality)
Official degree: Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education.
Through the Adaptation Course we try to respond to the needs of many professionals in the field of Primary Education, offering a training that complements their initial associate's degree.
RD 861/2010 establishes that "In those cases in which the university intends to offer a specific curricular design (bridge or adaptation course) for access to undergraduate studies by graduates of the previous ordinance, all the aspects related to that curricular design, as well as those related to the criteria and conditions of access to it must be specified."
In addition, the 7th Assembly of the Conference of Deans and Directors of Teaching and Education, meeting in Granada in 2009, stated:
“The Conference notes the existing demand on behalf of those holding an associate's degree to access the Undergraduate Degree, and therefore urges the Ministry of Education to give clear and common operational criteria, urgently, for the adaptation of Associate Degrees to Undergraduate Degrees. With regard to the undergraduate degrees of Early Childhood and Primary Education, the Conference has already adopted an agreement on the adaptations of Associate Degrees to Undergraduate Degrees of Teaching Early Childhood Education and Primary Education.”
Under this Royal Decree, a bridge or adaptation course will be organized, in a distance learning modality, to facilitate access to the Undergraduate degree courses by those holding an associate degree according to the previous ordinance, whose aspects related to the curricular design, criteria and conditions of access are described below.
This program will be taught in the distance learning modality to facilitate access to the course to all active professionals, as well as associate degree graduates in teaching who do not live in the community of Madrid.
This Adaptation Course aims to respond to the needs of many professionals in the field of Primary Education, offering training that complements their initial associate's degree and allows them to access postgraduate studies.
That is why training is offered in three basic subjects: Educational methodology, innovation and research, Interculturality and education and ICTs in primary education, as well as specific training in English, with the subject Strategies for oral and written communication in English I.
The 6 credits corresponding to the Practicum can be recognized if there is proof of having worked professionally in the corresponding field for at least 2 months, since Royal Decree 861/2010, of July 2, in article 6 Recognition of credits, indicates that "The accredited professional and work experience may also be recognized in the form of credits that will be computed for the purpose of obtaining the official degree, provided that said experience is related to the competences inherent to said degree.".
In no case will the Final Research Project (14 credits) be recognized, in accordance with Royal Decree 861/2010, of July 2, which in article 6 establishes that "in no case will the credits corresponding to the Final Research Projects be recognized."
Profesores Professors | Porcentaje de Doctores Percentage of PhD holders |
148 | 60% |
Official Degree:Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education
Profession regulated by the Order ECI / 3857/2007.
Possibility of obtaining a Concentration in: Foreign Language: English, Foreign Language: French, Hearing and Language, Therapeutic Pedagogy or Physical Education.
The graduate in Primary Education from the Nebrija University will be trained for the educational attention to Primary Education students and for the preparation and monitoring of the pedagogical proposal referred to in Article 16 of the Organic Law 2/2006.
240 ECTS credits.
- Full-time:
Minimum: 45 créditos ECTS
Maximum: 90 créditos ECTS
- Part-time:
Minimum 12 créditos ECTS
Maximum: 45 créditos ECTS.
Access from professional vocational training: - According to the agreement signed with the CAM, a total of 42 ECTS credits will be recognized - For professional experience, a maximum of 36 ECTS credits will be recognized (RD 861/2010).
Center responsible:School of Language and Education
Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences
Available places: - Classroom attendance: 100
- Online: 450
Places will be offered for the bilingual modality only in Classroom attendance mode, in total 50 of the 100 verified places.
Places for each concentration in the classroom attendance modality:
- Concentration in Foreign Language English: 30
- Concentration in Therapeutic Pedagogy: 20
- Concentration in Hearing and Language: 20
- Concentration in Physical Education: 20
- Students who will not take the elective subjects linked to a concentration: 10
Places for each concentration in the online mode:
- Concentration in Foreign Language English: 100
- Concentration in Foreign Language French: 30
- Concentration in Therapeutic Pedagogy: 100
- Concentration in Hearing and Language: 50
- Concentration in Physical Education: 50
- Students who will not take the elective subjects linked to a concentration: 120
Academic year of verification by ANECA: 2011 - 2012
Academic year in which it was implemented:2012 – 2013
Type of Education: Classroom attendance / Online
Languages: This degree is taught in Spanish and English.
- Minimum level of English required upon admission:
A2 (monolingual modality).
B2 (Bilingual modality)
The English level tests consist of a written exam with multiple choice questions, oral and written comprehension, and use of the language. They are taken in person and are held in the computer rooms of the campus. It lasts approx. 60 minutes.
- Level of Spanish for non-Spanish speakers:
B2 (CEFR) in Spanish.
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The following are identified as General-Transversal Competences of the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education:
The block of specific competences can be grouped into two sections. On the one hand, Common Specific Competences referred to the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education and, on the other hand, Specific Modular Competences, being these either basic training, didactic-disciplinary training or belonging to the practicum.
Next, the Specific Modular Competences of the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education are listed. These Specific Modular Competences are detailed below organized by modules, according to whether they belong to the block of basic training, didactic-disciplinary or the practicum.
Module: Learning and personality development
Module: Educational processes and contexts
Module: Society, family and school
Module: Teaching and Learning Experimental Sciences
Module: Teaching and learning Social Sciences
Module: Mathematics
Module: Languages
Module: Musical, plastic and visual education
Module: Physical Education
Practicum Module:
The suitability of the distance learning modality for the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education is justified due to the existing need to grant access to the teachings of this degree to all those people who, for personal or professional reasons, have difficulties in traveling to a university campus, either due to lack of time, physical mobility problems, because the degree is not taught in their city or a nearby one, etc.
Likewise, with this distance learning modality, the aim is to give access to the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education to people who are active, from other related areas, who wish to complement their studies with this degree, or who wish to begin these studies.
Certain social conditions, such as geographical isolation, lack of mobility, lack of time, have a negative impact on the possibility of obtaining studies. These situations can be resolved with the help of electronic means aimed at distance education, since the student is freed from the constraints of time and space, which makes the student's dedication more flexible, regulating it according to their context.
The advantages of the distance learning modality are many: the autonomy of the student in terms of learning, self-assessment and updating of knowledge, the usefulness of teamwork, as well as the quantity and quality of educational resources. In addition, this modality reaches students with different cognitive styles and different learning strategies.
Additionally, this modality acquires great importance due to the social and professional demand for proposals and implementation of digital learning resources for curricular planning with an open, flexible and distance methodology.
The student must take 240 credits.
The admission profile is that of a student who wants to prepare for the regulated profession of Primary Education. The student acquires personal and professional experience of inestimable value for their subsequent entry into the labor market through internships in different educational centers.
The access channels to study the Undergraduate degree level courses are those indicated in art. 3 of Royal Decree 412/2014, of June 6, which establishes the basic regulations for the admission procedures to the official undergraduate university courses. In addition, at Nebrija University it is necessary to pass the specific Admission Tests of each degree, whose content and specific procedure will be listed in section 4.2. Access requirements and admission criteria of this section number 4.
From academic years 2014/2015 to 2016/2017 and as established in RD 412/2014, for students who have passed the 2nd year of Baccalaureate, Nebrija University respects the provisions of Article 13 of RD 1892/2008 and its subsequent modifications about passing the university entrance exam:
“Access to the Spanish university, both public and private, to attend the courses leading to obtaining the various degrees of the official university degree programs valid throughout the national territory will require, in general, the passing of the test. referred to in article 38 of the Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, on Education, which is regulated in this royal decree, without prejudice to the other cases provided for in article 3 of this royal decree.”
“The students who hold degrees of Senior Technician of Vocational Training, Senior Technician of Plastic Arts and Design or Senior Sports Technician, as well as students coming from foreign educational systems and those who hold the European Baccalaureate degree or the International Baccalaureate Diploma may access Nebrija University only after passing the entrance tests of the University, without it being necessary to pass the University Entrance Exam (PAU).”
With respect to the entrance of non-native speaking students of Spanish, the same profile as that of Spanish speakers will be required and they must also demonstrate their communicative competence in oral and written Spanish language at a B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for teaching, learning and evaluation of languages.
As of the 2017/2018 academic year, all students who meet the access requirements legally established in RD 412/2014 will be able to access the Undergraduate studies after passing the University's own Entrance Tests.
Students who are in any of the following academic situations can apply for admission in the first year of the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education:
Teachings that are taught in other modalities: "blended" or "distance learning".
Students who access the University to study in the blended modality will have the same mechanisms of prior information as those in the classroom attendance modality (web page and brochures, among others). The Department of Promotion and Admissions is responsible for providing personalized academic information to those who request it, to monitor and facilitate collaboration in the different phases of prior information and access to the University.
Students who study this modality require a more complete information process, since the students must know precisely what is the teaching methodology used, the teaching-learning method, the available means, documentation, resources, software, etc. However, the University website, in each degree taught in blended or distance learning modalities, provides detailed information on the methodology and activities to be carried out throughout the academic years of the curriculum.
To do this, during the week of the start of the academic year, the student will receive through the virtual campus a technical guide with information related to resources, the use of the campus, and general information about the academic year. An academic guide will also be sent for each of the subjects.
Finally, it is important to point out that prior to enrollment, students will be informed that in order to comply with section 5 of ORDER ECI/3857/2007, the Practicum will be carried out in primary education centers recognized as practices training centers through agreements between the Educational Administrations and the Universities, providing -prior to enrollment- the students with information about the Autonomous Communities with which the university has signed an agreement and the requirements.
The access channels to the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education have been described previously in the section Information Systems prior to enrollment.
The Antonio de Nebrija University will make public on its website the offer of places available for the first year of the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education, distributing as best it considers the number of places awarded for each modality of the degree.
At the Antonio de Nebrija University, the admission procedures established by university legislation will be carried out with particular reference to the guiding principles of access to the Spanish university: equality, merit, ability, universal accessibility and adjustment to the criteria of the European Space of Higher Education.
The admission process consists of several phases that are described below:
In addition, according to the access channel of the student to the Undergraduate Degree, the following documentation will be requested:
Only candidates who have submitted the required documentation within the deadlines established by the Admissions Department will be processed. In addition, the student will be asked for all the additional information considered appropriate to know the suitability of the candidate for the Undergraduate degree.
For the purposes of pre-admission and admission, the evaluation of the candidate will be carried out taking into account the following criteria and percentages:
Additionally, candidates must pass a specific language skills test.
The English level test is a written exam with multiple-choice questions, oral and written comprehension, and use of the language. They are taken in person, and are carried out in computer rooms on each campus. They last 60 minutes, and the student must prove to have knowledge of the English language at least at an A2 level (CEFR) to take the Monolingual Program, and a B2 level (CEFR) or higher to take the Bilingual Program.
In the event that the candidate's mother tongue is not Spanish, they may accredit a B2 level of Spanish, by means of any accredited certificate. In the event that the candidate's mother tongue is not English, they may accredit a B2 level of English, through any accredited certificate, to access the bilingual modality.
All the student's tests and records will be evaluated and assessed by the Bachelor's Degree Admissions Committee, who will grant or not grant the student's admission taking into account the criteria reflected in the "PGA_11 Procedure for the Operation of the Bachelor's Degree Admissions Committee”, which are part of the Internal Regulations that regulate the access of candidates to the University.
The Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education from the Antonio de Nebrija University does not allow the simultaneity of teaching modalities, but rather the change of modality from classroom attendance to blended learning, or vice versa. The following are the specific regulations for the change of modality, Article 7 of the General Regulations of the Student Body:
Article 7. Changes in enrollment
Si el alumno, estando matriculado en determinada titulación, materia, opción o programa decidiera cambiar su matrícula, deberá solicitarlo mediante escrito dirigido a la Secretaría General de Cursos para su autorización.
If the student is enrolled in a certain degree, subject, option or program and decides to change his/her enrollment, he/she must request it by writing to the General Secretary of Courses for authorization.
Students who wish to change the modality in which they study a degree, from classroom attendance to distance learning modality, or vice versa, must request it in writing to the Courses Secretary that will authorize it or not, after having the report from the Department that will conduct a personal interview with the student who wants to change the modality, in which the interviewer will assess whether the candidate's work and personal situation, his/her availability of time, etc. is compatible with the normal development of the process and teaching-learning activities with the expected teaching load. As a result of this joint analysis, which will entail a mutual exchange of information, students can be guided on their real possibilities, the recommended annual enrollment fee, the mandatory presence in some activities (exams, etc.) or even reject their candidacy if a probable impossibility to carry out the programmed formative activities satisfactorily is detected.
In no case may the quota for each of the verified modalities be exceeded.
The objective criteria that will be used to authorize or not change the modality will be the following:
Also, to access the Undergraduate Degrees in Primary Education they must pass a specific test of access, coordinated by the Commission created for this purpose in the Community of Madrid, which will aim to assess the knowledge, skills and competences that are considered essential to be able to successfully carry out the educational activities of the curriculum. The test, which will take place in each university, can be done in several calls.
The Specific Access Test will be set according to the criteria established by the Commission, which will publish the calendar and conditions for pre-registration and testing, a detailed description of its contents and the evaluation criteria. In the organization of the test, full respect of the principles of equality, merit and ability will be guaranteed, in all cases adjusting to what the basic state regulations establish, in accordance with articles 38 LOE and 42.3 LOU.
Until the introduction of the Specific Access Test, said test will be considered as passed, obtaining a grade equal to or greater than 5 in the Spanish Language and Literature of the general phase of the University Entrance Exam, or when the final grade of admission for Primary Education was equal to or greater than 9. Those students who want to access the University through access channels other than the University Entrance Exam must accredit an admission grade equal to or greater than 6.
These requirements will not apply when the access channel to the Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education is by transfer or change of the record that has its origin in other higher education than the Undergraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education or Primary Education.
Profession regulated by ORDER ECI/3857/2007, of December 27.
This degree qualifies one for the regulated profession of Teacher in Primary Education.
On the other hand, they can go into sectors of different nature, but require the knowledge of a graduate in Primary Education, such as:
After studying the curriculum map of Nebrija University's Bachelor's degrees, the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of Ecuador (SENESCYT) recognizes this Bachelor's degree through document number SENESCYT-SGES-SFA-2019-0722-O
The International Mobility Office of Nebrija University makes a constant effort to monitor the agreements with the most prestigious universities. Students may study an annual or semi-annual period in universities in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. This option will expand their vision of the world as well as their linguistic training, and will prepare them to rigorously perform their professional work anywhere in the world. Some of the Universities with which Nebrija University has established agreements are:
NOTE: The host universities offered by degree may vary according to the International Mobility Program. For more up-to-date information, students can consult the online information in the International Mobility Program.
The information published here is for guidance only and may be subject to modification.
Several universities have special academic or linguistic requirements. For more information, consult the Department of International Programs
For more information about academic and linguistic requirements, contact the Faculty's international coordinator: Cristina Herrero Fernández.
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