Early Years Teacher Status (Professional), PGCE

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Duration

    1 Year

Develop your professional practice skills and play an essential role in children’s development as a qualified early years teacher.


This Professional Graduate Certificate of Education (ProfGCE) teaches you how to provide high-quality early years education. We create an individual training plan that is unique to you and help you use your skills to ensure all children have access to high standards of learning.

As part of this course, you will develop professional practice with children from birth to five years, and support and lead reflective practice and quality provision. We provide local placements with dedicated mentors. This course is accredited by the DfE (Department for Education).

Your tuition fees may be covered by a DfE grant, and there are also bursaries of up to £5,000 for graduates with a First Class Honours degree, £4,000 for graduates with a 2:1, and £2,000 for graduates with a 2:2.

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Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now closed

About this course

An undergraduate degree in any subject
Plus GCSEs at grade C or above in English, mathematics and science or equivalent. (We will accept equivalency tests from Equivalency Testing for Career Development and A Star Equivalency Testing).

What you should know about this course
Ofsted rated the quality of teacher training as 'Good' in its recent report for Initial Teacher Education, 2016. Our successful graduates gain a PGC in Education plus Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS).
Accredited by the Department for Education (DfE).

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Subjects

  • Child Development
  • Early Years
  • Leadership
  • Options
  • Teaching
  • Quality
  • Quality Training

Course programme

Year 1

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.

  • Early Years Teacher Status Portfolio of Practice (30 credits)
  • Keeping Children Safe from Harm (15 credits)

Students are required to choose 1 module from this list of options.

  • Leading and Managing in the Early Years (30 credits)
  • Leadership and Management in Early Years: Working in a Multi Professional Context (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 1 module from this list of options.

  • The Child's Lived Experience: Developing Confident Learners (30 credits)
  • Child Development and Learning Birth - 8 Years (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 1 module from this list of options.

  • Early Intervention (15 credits)
  • Mentor Preparation for the Children's Workforce (15 credits)

Early Years Teacher Status (Professional), PGCE

£ 9,250 VAT inc.