Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Education

Nurture children from birth to Year Six

If your ambition is to work as a teacher in a preschool, early learning centre or primary school, then UC’s Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Education will provide you with a broad and innovative education degree which prepares you for a future-focused career.

During your first year of study, you’ll undertake professional teaching placements in early childhood and preschool settings.
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) units across your remaining three years are taught on-site in schools, providing you with ongoing opportunities to engage with children of all ages and embrace your course learnings first-hand. Whether you choose to launch your career in an early childhood or primary school environment, you’ll graduate classroom-ready and keen to inspire the next generation of children aged 0 to 12.

Admission to this course is based on an entrance rank. A rank can be achieved by the following means:
- Year 12 ATAR
- other Australian Qualification
- work experience
- overseas qualification

We also offer a number of entry initiatives that give you the opportunity to gain entry to the University via alternate pathway programs and admissions schemes.
More information is available on our Alternative Entry page: http://www.canberra.edu.au/future-students/applications/apply-now/alternative-entry

In addition there is a pathway into this course for applicants who have completed an ACECQA-accredited Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. Credit for 8 units (24 credit points) of this course will be granted to applicants who have completed an ACECQA accredited Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. The 24 credit points will be based upon credit being granted for:

- 11990 Child Development | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11991 Relationships in Early Childhood Education | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11992 The Arts: Visual Arts and Media in the Early Years | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11993 The National Quality Framework | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11994 Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11995 Infant and toddler Learning and Care | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11996 Planning and the Early Years Learning Framework | 3 credit points - Level 1
- 11997 Partnerships in Early Childhood Education | 3 credit points - Level 1

Where an applicant does not have a completed Diploma (ACECQA approved), NO credit will be granted.

Additional admission requirements

All applicants will be required to complete a written statement in response to questions designed to assess their suitability for the teaching profession. Applicants' responses to these questions must be deemed satisfactory for them to be admitted to this course. You can find the questions in the 'resources' section of the online application portal when you are applying. You can upload your responses in PDF format as part of your application. https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/education/docs/UG-Teacher-Education-questionnaire.pdf

Students must obtain a Working with Vulnerable People Check.

There are non-standard English language requirements for this course. To be eligible you must have an overall IELTS Academic score (or equivalent) of 7.5, a score of not less than 8.0 in both speaking and listening, and no band score below 7.0. For alternate/equivalent ways of meeting the English requirements for this course please view the English Proficiency Requirements document on the university website.

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