Course summary

If you are committed to making a difference to the lives of children, young people and families or you are looking to advance your current Foundation degree qualification, the Top-up Degree in Early Childhood Studies is the perfect programme to enhance your career opportunities. You will develop skills as a critically reflective practitioner and learn to analyse and critique ideas and practice, in order to inform your lifelong learning post-qualification. In addition to this, students are offered the opportunity to be assessed against the new Graduate Practitioner Competencies. Successful completion of this optional module provides you with an additional certificate. The modules studied may include: • Concepts of Childhood • Global Perspectives on Education • Contemporary Discourses in Early Years • The Creative Reflective Practitioner • Dissertation. You will have the opportunity to undertake a small-scale primary research project within an early years setting. The development of such a project further develops your organisational, interpersonal, critical and evaluative skills context. Progression Opportunities You could secure employment in family support and projects working in a range of early years settings as a children’s centre worker, early years practitioner or a role within a primary school. The Honours Degree could also lead to management and leadership roles within early years settings, children’s centres and schools. Post graduate qualifications such as PGCE and Masters degrees are frequent destinations for students