Diploma in Early Childhood Education

A six-month TVEC-approved diploma preparing childcare workers and preschool teachers, with a mandatory field visit and EduPro (UK) as awarding body.

BIMT

Offered by

BIMT Campus

Awarded by

EduPro UK

LevelDiploma

Duration6 Months

Overview

About this course

The Diploma in Early Childhood Education is a six-month course for people who work, or want to work, with infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers and school-age children. EduPro (UK) is listed as the awarding body. BIMT's journey page states that the programme obtained approval from the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission. Modules are fundamentals of early childhood education, administration and management, health, safety and nutrition, creativity, child skills and technology development, and managing parents and the community. A mandatory field visit is part of the programme. Stated aims include preparing preschool teachers to serve as model or supervising teachers, ECD trainers and programme administrators, and strengthening links between preschools and primary schools. Roles listed are family-day care coordinator, primary education assistant, leader in a service room, early-childhood educator and playgroup coordinator.