Course summary

This course will engage you in critical and analytical reflection, as well as encourage you to carry out individual and collaborative research. Aimed at professionals from a range of settings, you will be provided with opportunities to refine professional practice, relate theory to practice and to evaluate your capacity to facilitate change in the working environment. You will also be equipped with the skills to make a significant impact on your own workplace practices and to positively influence those of others. The separate pathways available within the course structure will allow you to continue your own professional journey. The potential for knowledge development and skills acquisition can support you to fulfil future specialist roles within your field. To ensure that your studies are relevant to your current or future role, you will also have the opportunity to negotiate a specific assignment that is suitable to you. This University of Worcester award is delivered by the partner institution The Learning Institute. Delivery venues range across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, London and Somerset, (though not on the University of Worcester campus). The running of the degree and of individual groups will be subject to minimum numbers. Key features

• Available pathways include Early Years Professional, Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People, Learning and Education and Inclusive Education

• Regular learning sessions, either face-to-face learning in local venues or online, enabling you to balance study, work and home demands

• Local delivery in a study group to support you to be successful in your study

• Multi-disciplinary weekend conferences, Friday evening and all day Saturday, to assist you to engage and network with students and tutors on your course from across the country

• Share your study with students across a small number of interrelated pathways

• Opportunities to develop networks across education, mental health and well-being sectors

• Benefit from strong practice links already established across The Learning Institute and professionals, practitioners, service managers