MA & PhD: Higher Degrees and Post Graduate Study

Over recent years CREC's Directors' have supported many students to successful completion of MA, MPhil and PhD degrees. The Centre is working to establish, regionally and nationally, a research community of scholars who are committed to children and family services. This open 'Learning Circle' meets monthly at the Centre for presentation or discussions on early childhood issues and includes students, policy makers, local authority leaders and visiting academics. From this learning community will come the future leaders, tutors and thinkers for this key area of social, educational, health and economic policy.

As an independent charity, CREC has established close working relationships with three major Midland universities allowing its team to tutor research degrees and to offer a variety of accredited courses, which can be delivered in CREC or off campus at local venues. CREC can provide post-graduate degree accreditation in the following areas:

• Research Methods
  
• Management of Change in ECE
• Leadership of Integrated Services
• Principles into Practice in ECE
• Policy Developments in ECE
• Quality and Equality in ECE
• Comparative Studies in ECE
  
• NPQICL

Together with its partner, Amber Publications and Training, CREC offers professional development training to practitioners from all backgrounds and at all levels of qualification from NVQ3 to PhD. Many of its accredited pre-graduate courses would qualify for the new Graduate Leader Fund.

Interested in obtaining a full Masters? Click here to read how.