Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care Victoria University

Overview

Progress your qualifications with this early childhood diploma that gives you guaranteed entry into a bachelor degree at VU.

Build on your passion for play-based learning and gain expertise in providing activities and care for children from birth to six years old. Make a real difference to children’s lives by helping them to achieve important developmental outcomes – and have fun along the way.

In addition to five work placements, this course includes first aid training and lessons in:

• childhood development (aesthetic, creative, physical)
• planning for children with additional needs
• networking and family partnerships

• children’s health and safety

Career

With the introduction of three-year-old kindergarten, jobs in early childhood are booming in Victoria. With the introduction of three-year-old kindergarten, jobs in early childhood are booming in Victoria. 

Take advantage of the opportunity to become one of the more than 11,000 new early childhood teachers and educators the Victorian Government is estimating we will need over the next decade.  

With  Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care  programme from  Victoria University , you could advance to roles such as:

• early childhood coordinator

• family-daycare coordinator

• team leader or room leader in a service

• early-childhood educator

• playgroup coordinator

• assistant director of early childhood services