A Level Environmental Science

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Key Facts

Level: 3
Attendance: Full Time (FT)
Duration: 2 Years
Course Code: A1QENV
Start Date: September 2025

Code: A1QENV

Environmental Science is a holistic subject with many interconnected systems and processes. A change to one process can affect many other processes to different degrees.

Consideration of environmental issues is based on evidence-based information and an understanding of how society works. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of both of these approaches.

Features & Benefits

The skills developed on this course enable students to gain a thorough understanding of the world in which we live and the risks and threats Earth faces.

Students are required to participate in a minimum of field work over the two year course in addition to practical, laboratory-based activities. Due to current COVID Regulations, all fieldwork is simulated in the laboratories.

Course Content

The Environmental Science course enables students to gain a well-informed insight into the environment, and the scientific processes that control and affect it. The central theme is an understanding of how different events and cycles within the environment interrelate, the human impacts on these events and cycles, and the strategies that can be used to minimise the problems caused.

Year 12:

  • The Living Environment
  • The Physical Environment
  • Energy Resources

Year 13:

  • Pollution
  • Biological Resources
  • Sustainability
  • Research Methods

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements:
All Loughborough College Sixth Form courses have minimum entry requirements of at least five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above, including English Language and Maths.

Subject Specific Entry Requirements:
English Language, Maths and Science at grade 5.

Progression

An A Level in Environmental Science is an excellent combination with science and humanities subjects. It can lead to further study in a scientific or geographic field.

Career options directly related to this pathway include:

  • Environmental consultant
  • Environmental education officer
  • Environmental manager
  • Nature conservation officer
  • Recycling officer
  • Sustainability consultant
  • Waste management officer
  • Water quality scientist

Jobs where this pathway would also be useful include:

  • Environmental health practitioner
  • Landscape architect
  • Town planner
  • Toxicologist
  • Transport planner

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