At least English 2A/2B, Literature 2A/2B or English as an Additional Language/Dialect 2A/2B.First Aid Certificate (Basic or Senior).Certificate IV (Children's Services).

In this course the major studies involve the ways to teach children in early learning centres, kindergartens and pre-primary. It enables you to help deliver high-quality, sustainable and recognised education to young children aged from birth to five years, when a child's brain development is most rapid and ongoing learning dispositions are set in place.As well as this course also involves the study of theories of learning and child development,educational psychology,teaching children with special needs.

To be eligible to this course students normally need to have graduated from high school with the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE), or an equivalent qualification, and gained an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) that satisfies Curtin's entry requirements. Year 12 exam result remains valid indefinitely. Scores dating back to 1992 (including the TEA out of 400 and the TES out of 510) can be converted to the current ranking, the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), with the Tertiary Institutions Service Centre ATAR calculator.The other eligibilty criteria includes:- 1) Successful completion of the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT). 2)  Successful completion of the Alternative Test for Adult Admission (prior to STAT). 3)  Successful completion of the Mature age Tertiary Entrance Examination (TEE). 4)   General Certification of Education (advanced levels). 5)  TAFE or Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications. 6) Current Division 1 General or Mental Health Nursing Registration with a State Nursing Board in Australia. 7) Successful completion of the first year of a bachelor degree course at another Australian university. 8) Successful completion of two Curtin full degree level units via extension study and English competence. 9) Successful completion of two degree level units via Open Universities Australia (OUA) and English competence. 10)Successful completion of two degree level units at an Australian university and English competence.

No special stand in the job market with just basic schooling and early education. But for higher studies, the tag of this institute helps to create a strong value over the knowledge base. Higher educational institutes recognise this institute as amongst the good.

This course is ideal for school-leavers seeking a career in early learning centres. It may also provide the opportunity for those holding positions of directors or senior staff in early learning centres (who choose to remain in the early learning sector) to up-skill, following the new Commonwealth of Australia Government (COAG) National Quality Agenda. This degree is strongly supported by local training institutions and employing agencies.

3 years full time