Early Years Education and Care: Early Years Practitioner Status (2 Years) (BA)

at University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Modules:
 

• Children’s Play: Theory and Practice
• Human Development
• Learning in the Digital Era 
• Multilingualism, Multi-thinking
• The First 1,000 Days
• The Professional Practitioner

Entry criteria:
 

• Early Years encourages and values applications from students who are returning to education, as they will have experiences and life skills that could support their entry onto the degree.

• Generally, students will have attained or will be working towards, a relevant level 3 childcare/education qualification such as NNEB, CACHE, BTEC, NVQ, A-levels. However, other experience is also valuable. They will also be working or volunteering regularly in an early years setting or a workplace that provides services for young children and families.

• All applicants will be required to provide a satisfactory enhanced disclosure document from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

• As part of the application process, students will be given an opportunity to attend meetings with the tutors. This provides applicants with the chance to visit the campus, meet the lecturers and ask questions about the degree. During visit days, the course lecturers are always interested in applicants' experiences of volunteering and working with young children.

• To gain graduate practitioner competences a C level GCSE Mathematics and English or other suitable equivalent literacy and numeracy qualifications may also be required.

Tuition Fees
 

• Home (Full-time): £9,000 per year
• Overseas (Full-time): £13,500 per year

Graduates go on to careers in a variety of fields including:
 

• Additional learning needs support
• Afterschool Leader
• Childminder
• Children’s Charity Roles (e.g. Barnardo’s)
• Community Support Officer
• Family Facilitator
• Family Support Officer
• Parenting Officer
• Pastoral Support
• Play Workers
• Room Leaders
• Setting Managers
• Youth Workers