Who are you? A simple yet complex question.

For those working with children in schools, nurseries and as childminders you will know that your identity is vast. From conducting an orchestra whilst the children tidy up, to knowing when to offer a cuddle, to having a really hard chat with a worried parent. Your role is huge and ever evolving.

So why work towards a degree in Early Childhood? Well because early childhood care and education is way more than preparing children for school. It is about preparing children for their future lives, their current lives and to help them understand who they are and in some cases work through their past. Our team help you to make sense of how children learn and develop by igniting your passion further and empowering you to share ideas and practices through skills you didn’t even know you had.

We encourage you to question, reflect and research aspects of your everyday practice and new emerging contemporary ways of working with children and families.

Children are precious – all have the right to play, be protected, enjoy their culture, have access to health facilities and good food, water and shelter. These may seem like basic factors of childhood but for many children in the UK and globally these rights are not met. By studying to develop your understanding of early childhood you can make a difference. I have seen this year after year with the transformation of the students on the early childhood degree. For over 20 years I have been amazed at how students who work their way towards a degree show levels of skill, sensitivity and awareness about how to be the best they can to work with the most valuable assets of all of our futures – the children.