Early Years Education and Care: Early Years Practitioner Status is a two year, full-time DipHE programme which includes both lectures and practical placement experience.
DurationEarly Years Education and Care: Early Years Practitioner Status is a two year, full-time DipHE programme which includes both lectures and practical placement experience.
This Early Years Practitioner Status programme is included in the Social Care Wales’ list of qualifications required for work within the early years and childcare sector in Wales.
As part of this programme, students attend a placement at a variety of early years settings to gather the vocational experience necessary for gaining Early Years Practitioner Status. It is also a qualification offering graduate practitioner competencies in England as part of the Early Childhood Studies Degree Network (ECSDN).
The timetable is designed to support students to have plenty of time to complete placement experience and University-based learning. Suitable placements could include:
maintained and non-maintained nurseries
crèche
Cylchoedd Meithrin
Foundation Phase classes in primary schools
Flying Start Centres
Students who successfully complete this programme will have a degree as well as a licence to practice within a range of early years settings.
What you will learn
Students learn about all aspects of young children’s education and care, giving students opportunities to link practical activities and experiences to theories relating to holistic development.
Learning activities include group discussions, workshops, study visits as well as lectures in order to develop knowledge and understanding of a range of relevant topics.
There is an emphasis on hands-on learning in order to support the understanding of the links between theory and practice within the early years.
Guest speakers provide opportunities to hear from sector-leading experts and keep students up to date with current policy and developments within the early years’ sector.
There are also optional residential visits to other parts of the UK and abroad.
About
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) was formed on 18 November 2010 through the merger of the University of Wales Lampeter and Trinity University College Carmarthen, under Lampeter’s Royal Charter of 1828.
On the 1 August 2013, Swansea Metropolitan University became part of UWTSD.
The University’s Royal Charter is the oldest in Wales and England after the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2011 HRH the Prince of Wales became its Royal Patron.
Together we deliver clear, tangible benefits for learners, employers, industry and communities by offering a vocational approach from entry level to post-doctoral research.
The Group will be further strengthened with the merger of the University of Wales into UWTSD in due course.
The University’s main campuses are situated in various locations in and around Swansea’s city centre as well as in the rural towns of Lampeter and Carmarthen in South West Wales.
The Wales International Academy of Voice, under the Directorship of Dennis O’Neill with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as its patron, is located in Cardiff and in addition the University has a Business School in London for international students.
UWTSD has a clear and exciting strategic plan which places emphasis upon applied learning, strong academic disciplines and a clear commitment to innovation, enterprise and knowledge transfer.
This connected university is driving through structural and strategic change which is closely associated with industry, business and enterprise. The University has a clear national profile – delivering for Wales and celebrating its distinctiveness on the UK and international stage.
The learner experience is at the heart of our mission. We have placed sustainability at the core of our planning. Developed through our award-winning Institute of Sustainable Practice, Innovation, Research and Enterprise (INSPIRE), we have embedded sustainable development through our learning, teaching, curricula, campus, community and culture.
Our aim is to inspire individuals and develop reflective graduates and practitioners who can make a difference in society.
Through work-based learning, research of international excellence and knowledge transfer networks, we aim to play a pivotal role in the promotion of social justice, economic renewal and the development of social and cultural capital.
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