Higher Education - provision for ‘Third Year’ students and players

As part of an ambitious scouting and recruitment plan, the club is actively seeking high-level ‘third year’ (Year 14) players that will compete in the National League North Academy Division, with a view to working towards contracts with our Under 23s / First Team.

Along with training Monday to Friday (and potentially Saturdays with our First Team, or a loan to a first team elsewhere), these players can also continue their Higher Education with any of the options below.

Level 3 courses:

  • NCFE Diploma in Gym Instructing & Personal Training (equivalent to 1 A-Level). For more information, please click here.

Higher Education - HND with Loughborough College

We also offer a variety of Higher Education degree options, in partnership with Loughborough College. Our flexible ‘blended learning’ degree programme offers the perfect combination of online / distance learning and contact day attendance - ideal for those who want to balance their studies alongside professional or sporting commitments...

  • HND Sport & Exercise Science

  • HND Sport & Exercise Science (Coaching Science)

  • HND Business

TOP UP YOUR COURSE - all HNDs also come with the opportunity to top up to a full BSc/BA (Hons) at Loughborough College in Year Three of the course (subject to validation).

What to expect

  • Free laptop and access to funding for additional courses

  • Contact days at Loughborough College every month

  • Flexible learning around your other commitments

  • Small groups with experienced tutors who will know you on a 1:1 basis

  • Tuition fees and maintenance loans available (Student Loans Company)

For more information, please visit https://www.loucoll.ac.uk/undergraduate-study/blended-learning-degrees

Players can continue their degree studies into a second and third based at Boston United, or transfer after one year to other university establishments.

Of the Talent Pathway, Boston United’s Head of Football said:

“Between the ages of 18 and 21, an obscene number of very good players leave the game as they hit a glass ceiling. Despite outliers like your Rooneys and Bellinghams, very few teenagers play in National League North regularly, let alone in the Premier League. When this happens, an 18-year-old can then become disheartened and walk away from the ‘dream’. Not because they not good enough, they’re just not patient enough – and clubs are not patient with them. What we want to do at Boston United is to create a pathway that keeps these good players in the system longer, whilst also offering a meaningful education to degree level if appropriate.”

If you are interested in exploring a third year football provision at the club, please complete the Expression of Interest Form by clicking here, and a member of our football team will be in touch.