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One university ditches EYT, while numbers rise at another

Amid falling numbers of Early Years Teacher students, the University of Worcester has dropped its course, although Greenwich university has doubled its intake this year.

 

Worcester has stopped offering its Early Years Initial Teacher Training course, which has run under various titles since 2007, and will not run it during the 2018-19 academic year.

The university is looking into offering apprenticeship routes instead.

A University of Worcester spokesperson said, ‘We are passionately committed to early years education and have a strong history of education and training for those working within the early years sector, offering a range of programmes from foundation degrees through to MA study.

‘The university constantly reviews its course offering to ensure the most relevant and purposeful programmes are available to students. We have recently been reviewing our early years portfolio and made a decision to phase out the Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT) programme at this time.

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