Norland Nannies how much??!!

daisyboo

I would really like to train to be a norland nanny, however from looking at the website I found out that for the two year course it is going to cost................. £20432!!!!!!!

The fees for the diploma in childhood care and education are £3165 per term (there are 6 terms) all the additional fees add up too the uniform is £300 alone.also Please note that the Diploma in Childcare and Education is not eligible for Local Education Authority financial support:eek:

This is something I would really love to do tho and so i'm in a bit of a dilema. I already have a psychology degree and so by the end of everything if I did the course I would be £32432 (+ interest) in debt so would be working just to pay it off. What do people think, or have I just worked it out all wrong.

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Lakelady_2

Well that is alot of money - but from what I`ve heard once you`ve qualified you will be paid alot so the investment might be worth it.
The only thing that would worry me was if I could stick out the work, living in etc. for say 5 years till I`d paid the debt off.

wendym

I know being a Norland nanny is quite something, but one of my daughter's friends decided the debt just wouldn't be worth it.

I reckon that with say an NNEB qualification, plus your degree, employers would be fighting to get you. She spent almost 10 years nannying, and now has children of her own (4 under 5!) with no debt.

Justie

as a Norland Nanny you would earn it back but you can also earn a good living (although not as much) with an NNEB and hard work - but most NNEBs I know started much younger and worked their way up. Being a Norland also stands you in good stead for future employment if you decide to leave nannying, which NNEB doesn't always. With your degree you'd be in a bit of an odd place to do NNEB and then work as a lot of families would see you as over qualified and to work in a nursery would mean low pay. If your long term goals are to work in child behaviour or something similar then a Norland qualification would be good or look at what NHS qualifications there are for child psychology but you'd be selling yourself short being an NNEB nanny (in earnings level I mean being a nanny is one of the hardest jobs but most rewarding).

Mrs_pbradley936

I think that is a great deal of money to pay out and since you have a psychology degree already they will not be teaching you much in this area. You may find yourself in an awkward position if you take an NNEB or BTEC in a child centred subject because most of the other students will be teenagers who will definitely not have degrees!

You have some questions to ask yourself which I have had to ask myself on occasion,
Do you actually like being around children in the day to day aspect of their lives?
I prefer to look at the academic side of children’s behaviour rather than wipe noses and change bottoms. I have an interest in the way children learn to read and as much as I like the satisfaction of turning a non reader into a reader, I could not spend all day everyday with hesitant readers. Instead I like to focus on why they did not pick up the skills in the same way others in the class did.

Raspberry_Swirl

BTEC National Diploma in Early Years is a good route into nannying. Slightly higher level than the NNEB as it has as much an academic side as a practical side.

i did the course a few years ago and it gave me such a range of real life experience with working with kids; nannying, nursery, hospital work, infant school, that it cleared my mind and made me reaslise that i wasn't cut out for working with children!

daisyboo

thank you all for your opinions, I think I will just have to realise that there is no way I could afford it but will look into the other options suggested thankyou.

Nenen

You could also consider doing a PGCE (post graduate teaching qualification) in early years (3-8 year olds). Teachers are certainly better paid than NNEB nursery nurses although I don't know how it compares to Norland. If you did this and were also interested in babies you could get a job in a nursery going from 0-5 and be in a good position for promotions, especially with all the government initiatives on 'every child matters' and incorporating 'joined up' services for families. I'm not sure if the scheme still exists, but at one point the gov were paying all fees for PGCE plus a bursary of £6000 for the year. You could also do on the job training as various schemes exist for this that allow you to be paid while training.

aurora89

I am just about to go off to Norland College. I know that the fees are an astronomical £24000 for the six terms, that is not including housing in bath (350 a month), uniform (£500 for complete formal and informal) or any thing else. However from this year you can get a student loan which will cover a terms fees.
I know that I will finish norland with a lot of debt but i think that the job prospects are amazing. The 3rd year of the course is a year in industry where I will be earning a minimum of 15k so i know that i will be paying my debt back within a few years unlike if i had gone off to uni and raked up a debt of 20k i would still be paying that bak in 15-20 years time.