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Top 10 skills you’ll develop whilst studying the T Level in Education and Childcare

21 July 2025
Consider studying Education and Childcare and enter an exciting world of possibilities. Here are 10 useful skills you’ll learn, ready for work.

Designed in collaboration with top businesses, the T Level in Education and Childcare gives you the skills and experience needed to thrive in a career working with children and young people.  

Early Years Student In Classroom working with baby

Here are some of the life-changing skills you’ll learn:  

  1. How to support children and young people’s education 
  1. What the best practices are for safeguarding, equality and diversity, wellbeing, and health and safety 
  1. How to work with parents, carers, and wider families  
  1. How to best support children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) 
  1. The opportunities and challenges faced by the education and childcare sector  
  1. Methods for observing and assessing children and young people  
  1. How to work with agencies and services that support children, families, and carers  
  1. Ways of understanding and managing behaviour  
  1. How to work collaboratively with other early years professionals  
  1. How to use reflective practice and other forms of professional development to enhance your career  
       

   

Click here for more information about the T Level in Education and Childcare, and to apply online today.  

   


 
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