HNC Early Education and Childcare
YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE
Where will I study?
The course will be taught at your local centre.
What qualifications do I need to enrol on this course?
Potential students will require three Highers to include English or Communications units. In addition, students will have successfully completed an NC Childcare qualification or will have achieved either SVQ2 Early Years Care and Education or SVQ2 Children’s Care Learning and Development. Propsective students will be invited for interview
How can I continue to develop my childcare skills? A natural next step for those students who wish to develop their skills further would be a degree in Child and Youth Studies, Teacher Training or Social Work.
Argyll College UHI Ltd is a Scottish Charity, SC 026685
Why should I consider an HNC Early Education and Childcare course? Do you want to develop your existing skills to help you work more knowledgeably with children from 0-12 years of age? Do you want to embark on a career in childcare at Practitioner level? Do you want to work towards a recognised professional qualification which will enable you to study further at degree level and beyond? If yes, then HNC Early Education and Childcare is the right course for you. Taught full-time, this course is suitable for both school leavers and more mature students wishing to return to learning or looking to change career direction. The course is designed to help you develop further the theoretical and practical skills required for continued progression towards a career in the childcare industry. In addition to college study, students will spend a minimum of sixty days in placement which will allow them to gain invaluable hands-on experience in the workplace.
The course will introduce the following required areas: •
Working in an Early Education and Childcare setting
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Children and Young People’s Rights: provision, protection and participation
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Theoretical Approaches to Development and Learning
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Early Education and Childcare: Graded Unit 1
You will also be offered the opportunity to study a range of specialist and optional units in areas which may interest you specifically. The HNC Early Education and Childcare (SCQF Level 7) will provide students with an understanding of the values and principles underlying early education and childcare and will look to develop the appropriate skills needed to work within the multiple and diverse settings of both areas. The HNC will enable students to integrate knowledge, theory and practice effectively in a wide variety of workplace settings and will allow the student to understand and appreciate how the National Care Standards and SSSC Codes of Practice should be reflected in and underpin their own practice.
Argyll College UHI At Argyll College UHI we apply stateof-the-art information technologies – including high-speed internet access and video conferencing facilities – to allow as many students as possible to study throughout Argyll’s dispersed communities. What’s more, as one of the 13 colleges and research institutions that make up the recently formed University of the Highlands and Islands, we can now offer our students even better access to a wide choice of undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. This is in addition to our existing, prolific range of vocational, full and parttime further education courses. Argyll College UHI has 13 centres throughout the Argyll region and you can also look at studying many courses at home if you wish. You choose what you study and how you study it.
Contact your nearest centre. Arran Tel: 01770 600 152 Cairndow Tel: 01546 600 070 Coll Tel: 01546 600 070 Campbeltown Tel: 01631 559 670 Construction, Engineering and Renewables Centre Tel: 01631 559 830 Craignish Tel: 01546 600 070 Dunoon Tel: 01369 707 182 Fionnphort Tel: 01681 700 377 Islay Tel: 01496 810 130 Lochgilphead Tel: 01546 600 070 Oban Tel: 01631 559 500 Rothesay Tel: 01700 501 000 Tiree Tel: 01879 220 372 Tobermory Tel: 01688 302 801