Delivered by Kingston University, the School Direct course was a Graduate Entry route to becoming an Early Years Teacher (EYT) and would have been due to start this month. It recruited five students last year, but missed its targets for recruitment for 2015/16.
Bright Horizons, which provided placements for the course and helped shape the training, is now ‘reviewing different course options for 2015 graduate applicants’.
Jessica Johnson, senior lecturer in early years, Kingston University, said that the ‘low numbers made it not feasible for next year'.
‘This is becoming a national problem and this is bringing it to the fore,' she added.
The university will continue to run its graduate employment-based route, for those with degrees already working in settings, from this September.
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