Highlights
- Graduates of this course can work in Queensland as an early childhood teacher in early learning centres, kindergartens, and Prep to Year 3 in primary schools
- Queensland’s top choice for a degree in education (Times Higher Education, 2024).
- Complete this 4-year full-time degree sooner if you have an early childhood diploma and work experience.
- Gain real-world experience through diverse professional experience placements from your first year of study, organised by QUT.
- Queensland’s no. 1 choice for early education courses.
Graduates of this course are equipped to teach in early learning centres, kindergartens, and Prep to Year 3 in primary schools. This degree also opens opportunities to work across Australia and internationally.
The early years are a time of rapid growth and development. Early relationships, interactions and experiences provide the foundation for everything that follows - school, work, life. Early childhood teachers make a significant and lasting contribution to a child’s education and lifelong learning. You will be supported by specialist early childhood academics and will experience real-world opportunities that prepare you to teach in early childhood and primary schools.
Nationally, the number of early childhood teachers required in early childhood education and care services is expected to grow by 21.6% between 2021 and 2026, according to the Australian Government's Job Outlook (June 2023).
This puts you, as an early childhood graduate teacher, in the box seat for leadership in the early childhood education and care sector.