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Early Childhood (Social Pedagogy) - BA (Hons)

University of Worcester

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University of Worcester
UCAS CODE: X033

Course options

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

  • Location

    St John's Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    21-SEP-26

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary


Overview

The BA Early Childhood is an innovative course for people who want to work with children aged 0-8 and their families to make a difference in their lives.The course is flexible. Dependent on your career aspirations you can choose to follow one of two pathways. The Early Childhood (Graduate Practitioner) pathway is for those wishing to work in early years education. Alternatively, you can follow the Early Childhood (Social Pedagogy) pathway if you would prefer to work with children and families beyond the classroom.This degree is superb preparation for employment in a range of occupations such as child and family support work, leadership in an early years setting, fostering and adoption services, play therapy facilitation, advocacy roles in charities such as UNICEF, Action for Children, and Barnardo’s, family assessment, or work in nurture hubs in schools, to name a few. You could also undertake further study, for example an MA in Social Work or a PGCE in Teaching scroll down the page for more details. Join in your first year, or contact us to see about transferring as a direct entry into the second or third year.


Key features

Convinced you want to work with children and families but not quite sure in what way? This degree lets you explore many possibilities and leads to a range of job opportunities.Choose modules and placements that fit with your interests, for example:- Select the ‘therapeutic approaches’ module and undertake a placement in a setting that uses a ‘trauma informed approach’ if you’d like to work with children who have experienced trauma.- Interested in speech and language work? Choose ‘Children’s communication and language’ as an optional module and try a placement in a speech and language unit.- Would you like to work as an education welfare officer or family support worker? Choose the ‘Safeguarding for advanced practice’ module and do a placement with the Local Authority.- Hoping to work with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities? Choose the ‘Inclusive approach to working with children with additional needs’ module and undertake placement in a school for children with an Education, Health and Care Plan that identifies a specialist placement is required.The achievement of the Social Pedagogy Professional Standards qualifies you as a Graduate Social Pedagogy PractitionerStrong course links with teacher training. A 2.2 degree classification or above will enable you to be considered for an interview for one of our PGCE Primary courses, provided you meet the course prerequisitesA strong emphasis on assessed work placements (210 hours a year). You are permitted to find your own placements, should you wish, or a placement can be found for youThere are no exams. Assessment is through coursework assignments and professional placement activity


Why the University of Worcester?

The University of Worcester is a campus university, meaning everything you need is on site. We’re based in a vibrant cathedral city just 40 mins south of Birmingham and an hour north of Bristol, and our beautiful green campuses have plenty of parking and quality on-site accommodation.At Worcester, small class sizes, supportive tutors, and professionally focused courses mean you’ll be prepared for your dream career. These are just some of the reasons why we’re first in the UK for both graduate employment and quality education.-


University of the Year finalist in the Times Higher Education Awards 2025

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First in the UK for sustained employment

, further study or both, from any multidisciplinary university – Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) 2017 to 2025.-

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Tuition fees

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£ 16,200per year

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University information

University of Worcester

University of Worcester

  • University League Table

    80th

  • Campus address

    St John's Campus, Henwick Grove, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 6AJ, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Education

    64th out of 91 1

    29th out of 46 5

  • Entry standards

    / Max 212
    114 54%

    56th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    79.0 79%

    41st

    13

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.16 79%

    64th

    25

  • Entry standards

    / Max 150
    n/a

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    76.0 76%

    5th

    4

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.26 82%

    27th

    18

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