Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Eunice Lumsden

There is a lot of concern about recently qualified staff who appear to find adjusting to the workplace a challenge and seem to have emerged with degrees which are low quality. As an employer of nearly 1000 staff, that is an issue, because my job isn’t simply to recruit staff but to succession plan ( and I don’t mean that in a Brian Cox sort of way!). Therefore, these concerns which I am hearing about from many quarters are of concern. But are these facts or rumours and setting out self -fulfilling prophesies? Is it just university ranking snobbery? So, I asked Professor Eunice Lumsden, from the University of Northampton who heads up the Childhood Youth and Families Department and is responsible for a whole suite of degrees from undergraduate to postgraduate, that cover a raft of subjects including early childhood studies, education, social work to working with children. Listen to find out what this means for us as employers and university and college teachers!

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Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Eunice Lumsden is an episode from Talking Early Years with June O'Sullivan by June O'Sullivan.

This episode is 35:36 long.

This episode was published on Nov 21, 2024.

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