Early Years & Education

Early Years

Careers in early years

Our Early Years students go on to a wide range of exciting career paths or further study at leading universities, including King’s College London, the University of Roehampton and St Mary’s.

Or you’ll have the option to move straight into a role such as nursery or teaching assistant, nanny or playworker, or progress into a career as a children’s nurse, nursery manager or primary school teacher. With opportunities in settings from nurseries and schools to hospitals and family support services, an Early Years qualification opens the door to a rewarding career supporting children’s development at every stage.

Our staff

Our Early Years tutors are excellent teachers and mentors with a wide breadth of industry experience, including nursery managers, special needs practitioners, primary school learning support and nannying. The quality of teaching in the department has consistently been recognised as good or above.

Course highlights

• Gain work experience in an organisation relevant to your area of study, so that you can see for yourself how your skills could fit in different sectors. 
• Childcare employers frequently send us their vacancies because they want someone who is ‘Nescot qualified’. 
• Level 3 students get additional qualifications in cooking and paediatric first aid, to increase their employability even further. 
• Students go on a range of trips throughout the year, including to Thorpe Park and Brighton, to give them an opportunity to practice planning an effective trip. 
• Students benefit from an annual careers fair, where a range of local employers network with our students, which leads to real job opportunities within the industry. 

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Teacher Training

Careers in teacher training

A teaching qualification opens the door to a wide range of rewarding and flexible career opportunities. You could work in further education colleges, sixth forms or adult learning, teaching subjects linked to your own skills and experience. Many go on to roles as lecturers, trainers or assessors, delivering professional and vocational courses in areas such as business, healthcare, construction or the creative industries. There are also opportunities in workplace training, community education and private training providers, helping people develop new skills and progress in their careers.  

Our staff

Nescot’s Teacher Training team have had experience in schools, colleges, corporate training and staff development and with specific community groups. They have specialised expertise across a range of needs, including behavioural and dyslexia. There are very few challenges within teaching that our staff have not met before and they fully understand the demands on the modern practitioner. 

Course highlights

• Class sizes are small, at around 16 students, so you are guaranteed individual attention from your tutors and have the chance to build working relationship with your classmates.  
• Our expert tutors will pinpoint the areas you are most challenged by and give you the personal skills and tools to master them. We then encourage you to learn from one another and bring your own experiences to the course using group work sessions, paired work and class discussions.  
• You will even observe and evaluate one another’s teaching sessions as well as observing talented advanced practitioners in action 
• A variety of specialist speakers visit to share their knowledge, and you’ll hear from experts in such fields as Continuing Professional Development and Neuro Linguistic Programming, as well as professionals who support students and teaching like Student Finance and counselling experts. 

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