Nursery World - NVQ4 students heading for top

The first three early years practitioners to take the fast track through a degree after achieving NVQ4 in early years care and education are expected to graduate in July next year. The three candidates have completed NVQ4 to CACHE's satisfaction, although this is yet to be moderated by the Early Years National Training Organisation. They are expected to take up places in September this year at an as-yet unnamed university which has given them two years' remission off its early years degree programme.

The three candidates have completed NVQ4 to CACHE's satisfaction, although this is yet to be moderated by the Early Years National Training Organisation. They are expected to take up places in September this year at an as-yet unnamed university which has given them two years' remission off its early years degree programme.

Richard Dorrance, chief executive of the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE), said he welcomed their achievement but warned that NVQ4 candidates 'must not assume they will get two years' automatic remission off a degree programme, because the content of their NVQ4 may not match the content of the degree'. The NVQ4 candidate might have covered aspects scheduled over the first, second and third years of the degree but might also have 'enormous holes', he said. He also pointed out that very few other NVQ4 candidates so far had expressed an interest in going on to obtain degrees.

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