We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified*:
IELTS Academic module overall 6.5 with 5.5 in each component.
TOEFL-iBT (including Special Home Edition) 92 or above with 20 in each section. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
Cambridge English: Advanced or Proficiency overall 176 with 162 in each component.
Trinity ISE: ISE II with a distinction in all four components.
We also accept a wider range of international qualifications and tests.
English language qualifications must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the degree you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, or Trinity ISE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.
This programme prepares you for a management role within the early childhood learning and care sector. It examines issues of childhood, including childhood studies, health and wellbeing, child development, education, family sociology and childhood policy and rights.
Leadership, management and professionalism also feature prominently. You will develop communication and management skills and learn about organisational development and inter-agency working.
This work-based programme is for students with 120 Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Credits at level 7/8, or equivalent, working in a relevant childcare environment. You enter directly into Year 2.
Year 2
You will study Children and Childhoods, Childhood Studies Work-Based Learning 1: Professional Development and Children in the Family which will enable you to evaluate your own role in a childcare setting.
Year 3
You will take:
Childhood Studies Work-Based Learning 2: Organisational Development
Children's Education and Social Justice
Children's Health and Wellbeing
Year 4
You will study Integrated Working in Children's Services and Children's Rights and carry out a Childhood Practice Research Project.
Programme structure
Find out more about the compulsory and optional courses in this degree programme.
To give you an idea of what you will study on this programme, we publish the latest available information. However, please note this may not be for your year of entry, but for a different academic year.
Graduates in Childhood Practice can register as lead professionals and managers in early learning and care, to apply for promotion in their current workplace. Some of our graduates also work in the voluntary and policy sectors or pursue further study, for example teaching or social work.
