Early Years Education and Care: Early Years Practitioner Status (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

• A typical offer for this course is 88-104 UCAS points.
• All applicants will be required to provide a satisfactorily enhanced disclosure document from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
• This degree is ideal for school-leavers studying a range of courses including A-Level, BTEC, CACHE and Welsh Baccalaureate. These course subjects can be linked to child development and care; however, the degree is also appropriate for those with no specific childcare qualifications and who have studied subjects including language, arts, music, drama, mathematics, sciences or humanities.
• Early Years encourages and values applications from students who are returning to education.
• As part of the application process, students will be given an opportunity to attend visit days. This provides applicants with an opportunity to visit the campus, meet the lecturers, ask questions about the degree and have a tour of the site with a current student.
• During visit days the course lecturers are always interested in the applicant’s experiences of volunteering and working with young children, for example, school/college placements. The team also likes to hear about applicants’ interests, hobbies, and responsibilities.
• 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