This programme from the University of Greenwich is a one-year 'top-up' qualification for foundation degree graduates and honours graduates of other disciplines who wish to retrain in the early years sector.
The Early Years (Top-up) programme will develop your ability to successfully lead practice across the Early Years Foundation Stage, to support and mentor colleagues and to raise standards in multi-agency settings.
This programme will also develop your understanding of the need to encourage children's physical, intellectual, social and emotional development in partnership with families in a context that values children's rights and encourages practices of equality and inclusion.
The aims of the programme are:
- To prepare you to model the skills and behaviours required to safeguard and promote high-quality outcomes for young children
- To develop your understanding of the need to encourage children's physical, intellectual, social and emotional development in partnership with families in a context that values children's rights and encourages practices of equality and inclusion
- To prepare you for the changing context of early years and to be effective leaders who are visionary and capable of being "agents for change" in the workplace.
