Summary

When children are exposed to positive educational experiences prior to school, their learning capabilities – and in turn their chances of excelling in school – are greatly improved. Macquarie has a strong reputation and long history in early childhood teaching and research, and you’ll be taught by active researchers in early childhood.

The Graduate Certificate of Early Childhood will develop your understanding of contemporary research-based early childhood principles and practice in selected areas. On successful completion, it offers an opportunity for students with an Australian bachelor degree or equivalent in a discipline other than early childhood education, to qualify for entry into Macquarie’s master degrees in early childhood education.

Key features

• Benefit from the latest research in early childhood education

   

  Study at Australia’s foremost uni for early childhood education research: Survey of research achievement, The Australian, 2020.

• Continue to work full-time while you study

   

  Complement your on-campus learning with online discussion tools and virtual classrooms.

• Gain key practical skills on campus

   

  Visit, observe and learn within Macquarie’s world-renowned Mia Mia Child and Family Study Centre.

• Solve a substantive educational issue of your choice

   

  Undertake a research unit that will allow you to apply your classroom learning in a rigorous and scholarly way.