T-levels – the Level 3 programmes of study that will come in from 2020 – look set to replace the Early Years Educator qualification. Hannah Crown has an update

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T-levels are big news for the early years sector, but you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise. The new courses, designed to be a vocational equivalent to A-levels, have been on the Government’s agenda for a couple of years, but key detail about crucial elements has been sketchy and they have failed to generate much interest among the sector at large.

Yet the Education and Childcare T-level will be one of the first to come in, launching from September 2020. And this matters: Nursery World can reveal that Government funding is expected to dry up for college-delivered Early Years Educator courses once the T-level is established, unless the Government decides to make an exception.

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