{"id":12074,"date":"2011-09-20T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2011-09-19T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:20:31","slug":"early-childhood-education-program-welcomes-first-cohort-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/early-childhood-education-program-welcomes-first-cohort-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood Education program welcomes first cohort of students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12075\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12075\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075 \" title=\"students in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education program\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bece-orientation-2011.jpg\" alt=\"students in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education program\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first cohort of students have arrived for the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Faculty of Education is welcoming its first cohort of students for its new <a href=\"www.brocku.ca\/education\/futurestudents\/early-childhood-education\" target=\"_blank\">Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Honours)<\/a> program this month.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Blaikie, Dean of Education, and Renee Kuchapski, chair of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, formally welcomed the students at a reception on Sept. 6. There are 32 students in the new program.<\/p>\n<p>The program builds on the foundation of a two-year Early Childhood Education diploma. Graduates of the BECE program will have a comprehensive understanding of the issues and trends in early care and education for children from birth to eight-years-old. They will also be well prepared for further studies or work in the field of care and education for young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 32 students in the first cohort of the new Bachelor of Early Childhood Education program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12078,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions\/12078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}