Guides to Studying Cert 3 Early Childhood Education

These guides explain the parts of the Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care that learners most often ask about. Each one uses information from the National Training Register, from government pages and from the public pages of the training providers in our comparison table. Each one tells you where the information came from and what to confirm with a training provider before you enrol.

Our study guides

• What the course costs: the full course fees that training providers publish, what a fee can cover and why some training providers show an unknown cost.
• Free and subsidised study: the funding programmes in each state and territory, with links to the official government pages.
• How the 160-hour placement works: what the qualification requires, how to read the Work Placement column and what to ask a training provider.
• How long the course takes: the durations that each training provider publishes for its own course.

Other pages

To see the training providers side by side, return to the full comparison. The guides are general information, and the final details always come from the official page or from the training provider.