Before enrolling Ms Mcloughlin had worked in the sector for eight years, having obtained the Diploma in Pre-School Practice and an NVQ Level 3 in Early Years Care and Education. She assumed the foundation degree would be work-based in a similar way to the NVQ, 'But I could not have been more wrong,' she says. 'Much more reading and research was necessary - at least 12 hours a week - and more if it was a subject that I was new to, such as social policy, research methods and the role of the senior practitioner.'
A good knowledge of how to use a computer also proved invaluable: 'I was helped a lot here by my children and partner - particularly when it came to using PowerPoint for a presentation,' she says.
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