De Montfort University in Leicester is offering a foundation degree in Families, Parenting and Community, run in partnership with further education colleges in Grantham and Leicester, and taught at local Sure Start centres from April. The course has been designed to offer Sure Start employees and community members flexible entry routes to work and a way on to an honours degree for 'non-traditional' students.
Initial recruits are expected to be nursery nurses and family support workers, as well as members of the community who use facilities offered by local Sure Start programmes.
Kathie Moore, head of the health studies division at the university's faculty of health and life sciences, said, 'We're trying to get people into higher education who traditionally would not have gone. We want to encourage people who might have a had a very poor experience of school and left at 16 and would never have imagined studying further.'
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