BA (Hons) Early Childhood

Explore the importance of early childhood education and care to bring about change in children’s lives, with our BA (Hons) Early Childhood degree in Peterborough. As an education student at ARU Peterborough, you'll have the opportunity to develop your knowledge of a broad range of professional practice areas within early childhood learning and development including social, psychological, cultural and sociological factors.

Practical experience is fundamental to the development of your core professional skills, so you will have the opportunity to undertake professional placements alongside your studies, which can be in a paid or voluntary capacity (subject to agreement by the Early Childhood Placement Tutor). There will be opportunities for you to focus research on specialist areas of interest within early childhood.

Your employability after graduation is central to this course and you will be supported to understand the wealth of graduate opportunities available to you. You’ll prepare for your future career through a personalised career development planning process. This course is linked to the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies to help you move into an early childhood career when you graduate.

Courses at ARU Peterborough are designed to help you become a life-long learner, ready to adapt and respond to changes in the future. When you graduate from our BA (Hons) Early Childhood degree, you will have learned the essential skills needed by employers and be ready for a graduate professional role or to continue your studies further, should you so choose.