Higher Diploma in Pre-primary & Primary Education

A three-year course leading to the Higher Diploma in Pre-primary and Primary Education. This Higher Diploma prepares students for a teaching career in nursery or primary schools and focuses on Education in early childhood (3-6 years) or the Junior years (8-12). In years 1 and 2 students are also required to study a subject appropriate to the pre-primary and primary curriculum (in Cyprus and the UK). In year 3 the subject chosen is related to appropriate subject work in the student's chosen age-range specialism (Subject Study Curriculum Course).

The subjects currently available are:

• Art and Design
• Child Development
• Information Technology
• History/Geography
• English/Greek
• Mathematics with Computer Studies
• Physical Education/Sport/Dance
• Philosophy of Education
• Social Ethics
• Environmental Studies
• Educational Studies
• Science
• Religious Studies
• Music
• Sociology of Education
• Psychology of Education
• Children's Literature
• Education in the pre-school and school years

Subjects are taught through lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and individual projects.

There is a Teaching Practice requirement in Years 1,2 and 3: this combines intermittent days in school and blocked periods of 2-8 weeks. The location of the College enables students to have access to a variety of schools, urban and suburban, and with different types of organisation.

Duration of Studies

The period of study for full-time students is three academic years or six semesters covering both core and elective subjects.

Each subject carries a fixed number of study credits. Fifteen lecture periods of forty-five minutes each plus all the prescribed work normally constitute one credit hour.

Graduation Requirements

Students studying towards the Higher Diploma in Pre-Primary and Primary Education are required to take a minimum of 109 credits out of a possible 126. Ninety-five (95) credits must come from core subjects and the rest from electives.

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