Education and Early Years T Level

This is a new two-year course that is designed in collaboration with employers to ensure that you have the knowledge and skills needed to meet the needs of industry or progress into higher education.

You’ll be able to put everything you learn in the classroom into practice. You’ll be given an amazing opportunity to work with an employer while you study, such as a school or nursery, and gain invaluable experience as well as key skills that employers are looking for.

T Levels are two-year, technical study programmes, designed with employers to give you the skills the industry needs. You take just one T Level which is equivalent to three A Levels.

Unlike A Levels, T Levels provide:

• technical knowledge and skills specific to your preferred career

• an industry placement of at least 45 days/750 hours

• maths, English, and digital skills

• common workplace skills

The course combines a mix of college-based study, training, and supported industry placements. The T level qualification is designed with occupational specialisms in mind, specific to education and early years.

What you'll learn

You will learn:

• The differences between a range of childcare and education provisions, 0 to 19 years

• How stakeholders can support children and young people with their education

• How metacognition supports children and young people to manage their own learning

• Why up-to-date and appropriate technology is important to effectively support children’s and young people’s educational development

• How legislation informs organisational policies and procedures for recording, storing, and sharing information on children’s/young people’s progress, needs, and welfare

• How the stages of children’s and young people’s social, emotional, and physical development may inform their behaviour.

• Understand the possible barriers to effective partnerships with parents, carers, and wider families