Following the training article ('Work on it', 21 June), I am seriouslyworried about the message the profession is giving to experienced andeffective early years practitioners with level 3 qualifications, who areineligible to undertake the Early Years Professional Status because theylack a degree.
The two case studies of EYPS candidates in the article were a schoolgovernor, who had her own child and set up a playgroup, and a man whohad been made redundant from a film and theatre company and 'was hookedby the EYP marketing material'. They had degrees in electronic imagingand sound design respectively, but no childcare experience.
As an EYPS assessor, I fully understand the rigour of attaining thequalification and know that these two people will not be awarded thestatus if they do not meet the standards required. But how belittled andfrustrated level 3 practitioners must feel to hear the kind of commentfrom one of them, who confesses he 'still feels like an amateur', whenthey have committed years of their lives to the profession.
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