Report Early Childhood degree

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by: iggyfishtank

{quote}Hear hear loubybelle, I agree, qualifications are great but should go hand in hand with experience, something you cant learn in a classroom!!{quote}

Well that is the attitude that holds people back. Its like saying the degree is worthless as if you havent had loads of experience then your level 6 qualification isnt worht anything as you have to start at the bottom where the skills and advanced knowledge you learned at uni wouldnt be best utilised. Also by having people that need to start at nursery nursing after a level 6 it just shows that they have wasted their time as they could be doing that after leaving college with an nvq 2/3. Whats the advantage of doing a degree if this is the way?

[quote]but I would not employ someone if they had a degree with no experience as I feel it would undermine all my staff that have worked so hard through the NVQ route and have many years experience working with children having worked their way up through the ranks. It takes more than knowing theory of child development to work with young children day in day out. I am currently working towards eyps and the experience I have of working with children day in day out has been invaluable. I'm just a little worried about the people who think just because they have a degree they are suitable to work with children.}

You cant think like that otherwise you are undermining the work that person did at uni surely. If you worked at level 3 then someone with level 6 is going to be more likely to have the skills to do a higher level job as that is what their training is for, surely! I agree that it takes more than child development to know how to work with children, but you say you wont even employ them. So they will never find out the other parts of it. Doing a level 6 qualification takes time and dedication so some people may not be able to do aot of experience while studying or if they do have time then have to work in places that pay more than minimum wage to support their own studies.

You could quite easily interchange the last statement by saying just becasue they have a level 3 doesnt mean they are suitable to work with children. Well, obviously. In fact it is more likely they are able to work with children as gettign onto and completing a degree course is much harder than getting onto a NVQ 3 course and completing that.

There seems to be a suspicion in general about degrees and that becasue you havtn come through the NVQ route you are to be suspected as thinking you are better and that in reality you have not got any idea about working in a nursery.

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