Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion and Early Childhood Studies (with Foundation Year)

The BA (Hons) SENDI and ECS degree will provide opportunities for you to develop an understanding of important concepts such as multiagency working and different categories of need, in addition to offering opportunities for critical, reflective and evidence-based practice in order that graduates might become advocates of change.

You will gain the knowledge and skills required to support families and young children in a range of education related settings and through practice with young children and their families, you will be encouraged to explore your own personal, professional and ethical values.

This new programme will support you if you have aspirations to be an Early Help Worker attached to Children’s Centres, Early Years Practitioners working with young children and families in specialist and mainstream provision, charity roles (paid or volunteering) such as care support, respite and play workers.

If you don’t have, or don’t think you will attain, the normal tariff points for studying at BGU, this course will enable you to study for a degree without any UCAS points. The course is delivered over four years and includes a Foundation Year, which gives you a perfect introduction to what it means to be a university student and prepares you for effective undergraduate study. In your Foundation Year, you will study eight modules, all of which are designed to equip you with the necessary academic skills and knowledge to progress successfully in your chosen subject. You will also engage in a series of bespoke subject sessions delivered by experts, designed to introduce you to your chosen subject area.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS