Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

RGIT Australia’s Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) trains graduates to plan, implement and manage programs in early childhood services, in accordance with licensing, accreditation and duty of care requirements.

Qualifying as an early childhood professional, you will support the implementation of an approved learning framework, and support children’s well-being, learning and development.

Course Description

If you have felt that you would love to assist in the education and learning development of babies, toddlers and children then this program is for you. Qualifying as an early childhood professional you will support the implementation of an approved learning framework, and support children’s wellbeing, learning and development.

Career Pathway

The qualification provides possible employment in following roles:

Early Childhood Educator

Outside School Hours Care Assistant

Playgroup Supervisor

Pre – school Assistant

Family Day Care Worker

Nanny

All international students must be at least 18 years of age or above at the time of the course commencement to study at RGIT Australia.

Satisfactory completion of the equivalent of Australian Year 11 or higher.

International students, applying either off-shore or on-shore will require:

i) Either a minimum IELTS (General) test score of 5.5 or equivalent for direct entry into a VET course, or IELTS score of 4.5 or equivalent with a General English (ELICOS) course (up to 30 weeks) to be taken before the main VET course plus successful completion of RGIT Australia’s Language and Numeracy Test on completion of General English (ELICOS) program.

Results older than two years are not acceptable.

OR

ii) Evidence that they have studied in English for at least five years in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom or United States

OR

iii) Evidence that, within two years of their application date, they have successfully completed in Australia a foundation course or a senior secondary certificate of education or a substantial part of a Certificate IV or higher level qualification, from the Australian Qualifications Framework.

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iv) Applicants originating from students visa assessment levels 1 and 2 (countries) without the required IELTS score must undertake an English Placement Test conducted at RGIT Australia’s campus as part of the enrolment process.