Report RE: EYPS jobs?

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by: redsky

All settings are going to need an EYP, but private settings have 7 years to get one, so just because they do not have a graduate working for them doesn't mean they don't have existing staff who are capable of completing a degree and their EYPS in that time. It's important to remember that people who wanted to be nursery nurses up until recently had no need for a degree and wouldn't have wanted to spend time and money on something they weren't going to use. So just because they don't have a degree, it doesn't mean they're not clever enough to get one and now they need one, are quite likely to go and get one. I am a qualified level 3 (BTEC), and am working towards my BA in Early Years part-time so that I can then do the EYPS, because I am the Head of Pre-school in my setting and can see myself losing my job to an EYPS if I don't do it myself. I think it will be quite hard for EYPs to get a job, because private settings will have their own people training up not wanting to lose their jobs, and government-funded settings will probably want QTS as well. EYPs need to make a lot of contacts on their placements to help them get a job when they finish.

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