A Level Environmental Science
Key Facts
Awarding Body: Assessment & Qualifications Alliance (AQA)
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.
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.
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
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.
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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