Education is one of the most exciting and rewarding sectors and one that needs top quality staff at all levels and offers plenty of career choice, working with children of all ages and within various settings.
Education & Early Years can open the door for careers in teaching, health, social and youth work, counselling, and paediatric nursing. Not to mention working abroad and travelling the world on cruise ships or as a nanny/au pair. Many of our students progress onto the foundation degree in Children, Young People and their Services and top-up their degree.
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Our tutors are all ex-industry professionals with vast experience who have built up excellent links with local employers, including schools, nurseries and children’s centres.
We deliver the University of Lancashire degree programmes, the foundation degree and the top-up programme.
Courses focus on work placements to develop first-hand experience and practical skills. Classroom work is varied and mirrors authentic working environments, such as classrooms used when primary school children visit the college.
A wide range of full-time, part-time, apprenticeships, and degree-level study courses in childhood studies are available.
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A great opportunity to learn about the safeguarding needs and legislative requirements for children and young people including the risks of radicalisation and the Prevent Strategy.
The purpose of this qualification is to give learners the skills to support colleagues with mental health problems. These skills will be gained by increasing the learner's knowledge and understanding of mental health conditions and the principles of mental health first aid and how this can be implemented in the workplace.
A great way to develop knowledge and understanding of children and young people's mental health via a distance learning platform. This is a dominant topic considering the increase in mental health issues for children and young people in recent years, and a must have for those working in the childcare sector.
Designed to increase your awareness and understanding of behaviour that challenges and its effects. This includes recognising different triggers for key behaviours and strategies and approaches that can be adopted to promote positive behaviour, considering both proactive and reactive methods.
This qualification aims to develop learners' understanding of autism and the principles of supporting individuals with autism - covering the person-centred approach and influence of positive communication methods, how to support positive behaviour, and how individuals with autism can be supported to live healthy and fulfilled lives.
T-Levels are a high-quality, work-focused alternative to A-Levels for young people after completing their GCSEs. T-Levels are one of the main routes for a young person to enter the education and care sector.
This one year T-Level transition course is designed as a progression route to the T-Level in Education and Childcare.
The Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England) is a nationally recognised vocationally-related qualification and has been developed to allow learners to demonstrate competence as a Residential Childcare manager.
