Early Years (top up) – BA (Honours)

The aim of this course is to enable you to progress and build on your foundation degree in Early Years or other relevant level 5 qualification that has an early years focus in order to meet the needs for early years practitioners to be educated to degree level. It is designed for early years practioners and professionals with significant experience including managers and advisory staff within all early years related services.

Your study focuses on the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage, and other current national policy requirements relevant to the early years sector. We use a work-based learning approach to ensure the development of your knowledge, skills and understanding is directly relevant to your role. This means that your projects and assessments use your daily work experiences as the basis for your learning.

This qualification can help you to gain positions with greater responsibility. It also enables you to progress to postgraduate level study.