BA(Hons) in Early Years Education (Top up)

Study our exciting one-year standalone BA(Hons) Early Years Education course (HE level 6) and gain the skills and knowledge you'll need to develop your management or leadership career in early years setting or school.

Why study Early Years Education?

Research has established the importance of offering high-quality education from birth. On the Early Years Education degree, we'll consider the ideas that are central to children's lives and explore how we can offer positive, productive and successful learning opportunities to young learners. We'll also explore aspects of teamwork and leadership.

Why UWE Bristol?

You'll gain an in-depth insight into how key theories and principles inform early years education practice in the UK and explore dialogic approaches to learning and teaching. You'll also have opportunities to develop your skills in research communication and leadership, as well as in debate and critical thinking. The course also includes opportunities to hear from different early years professionals.

Where can it take me?

Our course will prepare you to work towards leadership or managerial roles in early years setting within international contexts.

This is an ideal route to a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). Please note that you'll need a PGCE if you wish to obtain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) (an appropriate visa may be required).

As this is a 'knowledge-only' pathway, if you don't already have a qualification recognised by the Department for Education, then this route will also be required if you wish to be included in the adult: child ratio in a UK Early Years Foundation Stage setting.

At UWE Bristol we empower you to make a choice. To choose a university that challenges itself as much as you. To choose a passion that gives you purpose. To choose a community that leads the way, encouraging you to question everything, and to become the best you can be.

Change the world

At UWE Bristol, we’re focused on solving future global challenges through outstanding learning, world-leading research and a culture of enterprise.

Here, we empower our students to make a choice. To choose a university that pushes itself as much as it pushes them. To choose a community of original thinkers - breaking new boundaries and leading the way.

From our enterprise support programmes to industry masterclasses. Professional mentoring to business incubators. World-leading research facilities to work experience opportunities across the globe. We give our students the tools they need to act on their ideas and make them happen.

Each of our pioneering courses has been created in partnership with industry professionals. And over 150 come with professional accreditation from industry bodies. Coupled with world-class teaching, they’re designed to equip students with the most in-demand skills, and the kind of mindset that employers want and need. So that when you graduate from UWE Bristol, you’re ready to take on the world.

Our mindset

We believe that it’s only when you ask 'what if?' that you discover 'why not?'. That’s why we’re not afraid to ask difficult questions – and tackle the big issues head-on. It’s our way of continuing to make a real difference in the way we learn, analyse and contribute to the world we live in.

Our values

Ambitious

We’re not afraid to shape, challenge and tackle the big issues, to take the initiative and pave the way.

Inclusive

We make UWE Bristol a supportive and inspiring place to learn and work – somewhere where diversity of experience and perspective is encouraged, and learning and research are shared and accessible.

Innovative

We create new opportunities for the people who work and study with us. We embrace different ideas and pioneer new and sustainable ways of doing things.

Collaborative

We have strong connections locally and globally. We help people and organisations be the best they can, building trust throughout our university community and beyond.

Enterprising

We instil a thirst for new knowledge, its creation and application, empowering our students and staff to demonstrate a creative questioning approach, a 'can-do' confidence, and the ability to navigate uncertainty.