Early Years: Education and Childcare BA(Hons) top-up

Why choose this course?

This one-year course offers progression to the Early Years Education and Childcare BA(Hons) for those who already have a foundation degree in Early Years, or equivalent. It is designed for practitioners whose role requires the knowledge and skills necessary to work across professional disciplines in light of Every Child Matters (2003), the Common Core (2010) and the Children's Plan (2007), and who wish to progress to EYPS.

What will you study?

The course covers the following areas:

• Diversity and equal opportunities
• Common Core of Skills (2004)
• Learning through play
• Inclusion
• Creativity and the curriculum
• Critical choices
• Curriculum links
• Liaison with multi-agency/multi-professional and other adults
• Pastoral care
• Management and leadership roles and responsibilities
• Extended long study – focusing on an issue directly related to the workplace, with theoretical and practical underpinning.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Foundation degree

Year 2

• Foundation degree continued

Year 3

• Diversity and Equal Opportunities with Curriculum Links
• Critical Choices Facing Early Years Practitioners
• Learning Environments
• Continuity through the Learning Journey
• Extended Study