About the Course

This flexible course offers an integrated international pathway into early years education, with a focus on building your employability through work placements. It also has options to complete over one or two years, depending on your previous related studies.

The degree explores the complexity of early education and child development while placing the developing child within the context of their family and society, both in the UK and globally. It allows you to compare and evaluate international and UK-based early childhood education, offering international students the opportunity to compare their home nation’s early years practice with the UK.

Areas you may cover through the course include early child development; early childhood settings; teaching practice; families and communities; early numeracy and literacy; inclusive education and practice; and international perspectives on early childhood education.

Why choose this course?

• Our Education courses have a high student satisfaction rating for our teaching (91%) and academic support (90%) (NSS 2022)
• Benefit from its strong focus on employability, with placements in settings across the age range (birth to 8) as well as opportunities for voluntary experience
• Learn with a highly experienced, research-active academic team
• Study at a University with over 10 years’ experience delivering degree courses in early years or early childhood education
• Many of our alumni have gone on to qualify as teachers in the UK primary sector or work as leaders in the early years sector
• As an international student, we offer a transition unit before the start of the course that familiarises you with UK early years education

I gained Qualified Teacher Status in 1987 and have worked in a number of educational settings since then. I have taught across the whole primary age range.

My main focus, however, has been working with children in the Foundation Stage (0 – 5) in schools, day nurseries and Children's Centres in both a hands-on practitioner and an advisory capacity and in a range of different local authorities in England.