Career Prospects

Graduates with the Early Childhood Education Degree can be teachers of children from 0 to 6 years of age in public, State-subsidized and private centers, where they can also find employment as  secretaries, chiefs of studies or directors.
They can also work as teachers in non-formal educational centers or institutions (shelters, prison facilities, further education centers, academies, sociocultural centers, museums, zoos, parks, theaters, juvenile centers, training academies, NGOs, etc.).
Graduates will be prepared to set up their own: Early Childhood centers, playroom centers, business organizing outside free-time activities for schools or tutoring academies.  In this sense, Loyola University also offers subjects from the Business Administration and Management Degree that will allow students to become well-versed in this environment.
Graduate in Early Childhood Education will be qualified to design, develop and elaborate educative and informative material as well as auxiliary elements for the teaching profession and educational research.

Internships

For the Degree in Primary Education, Loyola University provides its students with the possibility of doing internships in external companies and institutions.  The external internships are managed by the Service of Employability and Entrepreneurship which coordinates all the processes and activities leading to the correct development of these internships, which are regulated by existing legislation and the internal regime which complements it.

The internships programmed in the curriculum are based, in great part, on the agreements being reached with FERE-CECA and Education and Management, so that its members take our students into their educational centers, Education and Management is the majority association of State-subsidized private school education in Spain, while FERE-CECA  is the group of those heading Catholic educational centers.
 
The information about internships will be published before the beginning of the course, specifying the name of the teaching center, its geographical location, the name of the students, tasks to be carried out, the duration, starting date, the tutor responsible and contact data about the company.

Why study Bilingual Degree in Primary Education?

In today’s society it is important to have professionals that understand the educational needs of children, as well as the vital contexts surrounding them, so as to collaborate with family education.

Graduates in Primary Education develop the expertise required to educate with creativity, responsibility and communication skills.  Students in the Primary Education Degree will be able to understand the complexity of education through different sciences that converge in this field, to be able to detect and solve problems as well as plan, carry out and evaluate innovative projects to help transform the educative reality of our society and give children an integral education.

By the same token, graduates in Bilingual Primary Education from Loyola University are versatile professionals, able to perform in different environments: the school, family, government, counseling, hospitals, cultural centers, welfare services, research, communication media, etc.

Students will be able to participate in academic exchanges in the most prestigious universities in Europe, the United States, Asia and South America. This degree enables them to further language learning from the very first year of study, since their classes are bilingual.

Graduate in Bilingual Primary Education

Education is the foundation of any society, which is why Loyola University offers the Degree in Bilingual Primary Education to train teachers to be able to respond to the educational needs raised by families, schools and society.

The Degree in Primary Education is for students who wish to teach children from 6 to 12 years of age.  English is of primordial importance in the training and in the curriculum of the Degree in Primary Education, so over half of the subjects are given in English by native or highly qualified teachers.  This language has become a key and necessary tool in professional development in the field of education.  In this sense, in order to assure a professional command of English, internships will be offered in bilingual centers.

The University also has a volunteer service and offers students the possibility of collaborating with Educational centers as of their first year of study, which facilitates greater contact with educational reality in different contexts, increasing social and teaching skills, and most importantly, favoring the transformation of the educative community  in returning the  children to the limelight.

Students in the Education Degrees will be able to understand the complexity of education through different sciences that converge in this field, in order to detect and solve problems, and  plan, carry out and evaluate innovative projects to help transform the educative reality of our society and give children an integral education