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BA (Hons) Early Years
BA (Hons) Early Years

BA (Hons) Early Years

  • ID:LBU440028
  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

Entry Requirement

IELTS 6.0 with no skill below 5.5

Course Information

Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills you’ll need to be an effective leader working with children, from birth up to the age of five, and their families.

As part of this course you’ll:

  • Gain a deep understanding of the early years of a child's life as the most crucial in their development

  • Combine a thorough academic grounding with practical experience

  • Learn to support a child’s learning, help to shape their identity and give them the best possible start in life

  • Explore a variety of issues relating to early years policy, practice and research

  • Understand the legal, business, financial and ethical aspects surrounding early years provision

You’ll develop the specialist skills to lead learning and development in an early years childcare setting. Your expertise combined with your leadership ability will enable you to follow your entrepreneurial ambition to create your own business in this field.

Our tutors are committed to helping you grow and will provide you with access to the latest research in teaching, learning and educational leadership.

You’ll hear from a range of guest speakers, each giving their own perspectives on current educational issues. Previous events have covered topics such as social work, employability and enterprise activity.

Visiting childcare providers in the area will give you the opportunity to learn about effective methods for operating a business and help you develop your own ideas and plans.

Teaching & Learning

To ensure that our assessments more accurately reflect working in the early years sector, we assess you in your modules using a variety of innovative approaches, such as through professional conversation, the creation of artefacts to use with children, or reporting on your completion of a sector-based intervention. 

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Year 1

  • The Holistic Child

  • Play as an Approach to Learning

  • Curriculum & Pedagogy in the Early Years

  • Developing Academic Skills

  • Personal & Professional Development 1: Your Practice

  • The Context of Early Years Enterprise

Year 2

  • Young Children’s Communication Incorporating Outdoor Learning

  • Creative, Confident Children

  • Observing, Assessing & Documenting Early Years Outcomes

  • Safeguarding, Child Health & Wellbeing

  • Personal & Professional Development 2: The Team in Practice

  • Business Planning for the Early Years

Year 3

  • Current Issues in the Early Years

  • Transitions

  • Sector-Based Project

  • Personal & Professional Development 3: Leading & Managing Practice

  • Nurturing Your Early Years Enterprise

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

When you graduate, you will be well placed to apply for a range of posts in the private, voluntary, independent or public sectors of early years education, or you could use your enhanced entrepreneurial skills to set up and run your own day-care setting, such as a childcare centre or leisure service, including soft play, painting or pottery sessions. Alternatively, you could continue your studies on our MA Childhood & Early Years, MRes Professional Practice or our MA Education courses.

  • Childcare practitioner

  • Nursery leader

  • Reception class teaching assistant

  • Nursery nurse

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Health Insurance_fee: £300/year

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