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.

Taught in partnership with the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), which delivers the first year of the course as a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care, this four-year degree is carefully structured with a balance of both theory and practice in teaching.

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.

• Early childhood teacher
• Early learning centre director
• Educational leader
• Early childhood policy adviser
• Early childhood advocator
• Early intervention teacher
• Primary school teacher
• Principal
• Deputy principal
• Executive teacher
• Special needs teacher
• Gifted and talented teacher
• Relief teacher
• Private tutor
• Schools policy adviser
• Children’s services manager
• OSHC coordinator (Out of School Hours Care)
• Schools engagement coordinator