If your heart is set on studying A-Levels and would like an environment that is different from the traditional school environment, then A-Levels at MidKent College could be your perfect next step.

Based at our Sixth Form Centre in Maidstone, you will be taught by specialist lecturers who will support you to gain the qualifications, skills and confidence to progress to university-level study, an apprenticeship, or into employment.

You will study three A-Levels over a two-year period. Please confirm your preferred A-Level subjects through the application process. (Within the A-Level application process, please read the information for all the subjects you are interested in studying prior to applying, once you are ready to apply – choose 1 of your choices- at this point you will see two sets of drop-down boxes to choose your remaining 2 subjects.)


Politics (Awarding Body: Pearson Edexcel)

A-Level Politics is divided into a number of topics that consider a broad spectrum of political themes within UK Politics and UK Government. You’ll study and discuss such questions as:

• ‘What is Brexit all about and why did it happen?’
  
  
• ‘What powers does the Prime Minister have?’
  
  
• ‘Why did one party win such a significant landslide in the most recent general election?’
  
  
  You will develop skills for reasoning and debate of these topics through consideration of political theory and political ideas. Political ideals include Liberalism, Socialism, and Conservatism; and the work of iconic political thinkers such as Karl Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke will be used to support in the consideration of political structures in UK Politics and Government. There will be some study of US Politics which will provide the chance to compare US and UK politics critically. You will be assessed entirely through examination and there is no coursework component at this time.