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Scotland launches specialist early education courses
20 May 2009
Ingram made the announcement at an Early Years Framework conference and said: These qualifications will produce teachers with flexible skills in primary education who also have the benefit of extensive training specifically in early years education.
These courses will start running from the autumn with around 40 teachers working in early years settings across the north of Scotland beginning the Postgraduate Certificate in Early Education in Aberdeen, and a class of around 20 undergraduate students beginning the BA Professional Education (primary) with specialism in early years at the University of Stirling. Though the Scottish Government is funding the degree pilots for one year, it is then expected that the courses will continue subsequently without any Government funding.
(Children & Young People Now, 20 May 2009)
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