Politics A Level

Applications Open - 3 November 2025

Applications Close - 17 July 2026

Entry Requirements - Applications are considered on an individual basis.

How to Apply - Please apply via KentChoices

A Level Politics engages students with the core political ideology behind Western democracy: Conservatism, Socialism and Liberalism. They also have the option to study one non-core ideology such as feminism. Students focus on British politics and the British political landscape, including case studies from recent elections. The Global Politics unit allows students to examine the wider political environment with focuses on regionalism and the EU, international organisations such as the UN and international political issues ranging from the global environment to human rights.

Unit 1 UK Politics

Political Participation:

• democracy and participation,

• political parties,

• electoral systems,

• voting behaviour and

• the media.

Core Political Ideas:

• conservatism,

• liberalism,

• socialism

Unit 2 – UK Government

• the constitution,

• parliament,

• Prime Minister and executive,

• relationships between the branches.

Non-core political ideas - one idea from the following:

• anarchism,

• ecologism,

• feminism,

• multiculturalism,

• nationalism.

Unit 3 Global Comparative Politics

• sovereignty and globalisation,

• global governance: political and economic,

• global governance: human rights and environmental, power and developments,

• regionalism and the European Union,

• comparative theories.

Minimum grade 5 in GCSE Humanity Subject – History or Geography and minimum GCSE Grade 5 in English Language