Hi. My name's Kath Hickman, and I'm the Programme Director for the
BA Honours Top Up in Early Childhood Education and Care.
This is a one year, full-time programme of study which uses blended learning.
So you'll be on campus
for face-to-face lectures weekly, and also weekly online sessions.
This course enables you to continue working with children nought
to eight years whilst you're also studying for your degree, and you'll be taught
by a team of really experienced, very enthusiastic lecturers,
many of whom are authors within the field of early years.
As it's a level six program of study, you're going to start to be developing
your own research areas, so you'll be able to delve
much more deeply into topics of personal interest to you.
You'll be conducting a research dissertation
and for that you will have a dissertation supervisor
and they're going to help you frame your question and decide
what ways you're going to collect your data
and how you going to present your findings.
As well as the BA top up qualification,
you have an opportunity to achieve graduate practitioner status.
And to do that, you're required
to produce a portfolio of evidence of your professional practice.
And again, this is an enhancement to your employability.
It's an optional choice.
You don't have to do that unless you want to do that.
But if you are interested, we can give you that support.
As well as your dissertation supervisor,
you'll have a personal supervisor who acts as that critical friend, enabling
you and helping you to go through your studies
and get the best award that you want to achieve.
We also offer opportunities for you to gain accredited training
in Forest Schools, and this is a real sought after qualification.
It's externally accredited and we believe it will enhance your employability.
We offer this only to University of Hull students
and it is offered at a a very, very competitive fee.
I'm really looking forward
to seeing you at an Open Day to answer any of your further questions.