RTO: 45902 | CRICOS: 04050B
This course provides students with the specialised knowledge and practical skills to work in early childhood education and care at a senior level, coordinating other staff and implementing early childhood programs.
Students learn to manage relationships with family members, set learning goals, ensure workplace compliance, foster children’s learning, and monitor and support their development and wellbeing.
They use specialised knowledge and skills to overcome unexpected problems, and support other staff to do the same. Graduates may be given responsibility for other educators or volunteers.
At Solis College, we work hard to treat every student with respect and care and support them at each step of their learning journey. We have a proven track record of supporting students from a vast range of backgrounds, cultures, and walks of life, and helping them meet their training goals and take the next step in their life and career.
Some of the ways we do this are:
83% of Solis College graduates find work in their chosen industry.
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The CHC50121 course is made up of a total of 15 individual training units – 12 core units, and 3 elective units. To be awarded your diploma in early childhood education, you’ll need to have successfully completed each of these modules.
The units included in the course content are:
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UNIT CODES
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COURSE UNITS
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CORE/ELECTIVES
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BSBTWK502
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Manage team effectiveness
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CORE
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CHCECE041
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Maintain a safe and healthy environment for children
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CORE
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CHCECE042
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Foster holistic early childhood learning, development and wellbeing
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CORE
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CHCECE043
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Nurture creativity in children
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CHCECE044
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Facilitate compliance in a children’s education and care service
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CORE
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CHCECE045
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Foster positive and respectful interactions and behaviour in children
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CORE
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CHCECE046
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Implement strategies for the inclusion of all children
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CORE
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CHCECE047
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CHCECE048
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Plan and implement children’s education and care curriculum
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CHCECE049
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Embed environmental responsibility in service operations
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CHCECE050
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Work in partnership with children’s families
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CHCPRP003
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Reflect on and improve own professional practice
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UNIT CODES
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COURSE UNITS
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CORE/ELECTIVES
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BSBPEF502
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Develop and use emotional intelligence
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ELECTIVES
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CHCDIV003
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Manage and promote diversity
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ELECTIVES
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CHCMGT003
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Lead the work team
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ELECTIVES
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Solis College uses a blended, hybrid format for our CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care course – combining both online learning and more traditional face-to-face instruction in a classroom setting. The in-class component is led by our highly qualified trainers, and allows students to work in a group context to discuss concepts and work through hypothetical scenarios.
The self-paced learning is accessed through our online student portal and allows students to work through much of the course content and complete online assessments remotely, from the comfort of home and at your own pace.
Students may find themselves learning through the following methods:
The CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care is a high level study course, and the qualification reflects a full two years (104 weeks) of study.
This includes all classes, assignments, orientation sessions, holiday periods, and final assessments.
If you’re interested in a diploma in early childhood education, but you need to start with the groundwork and learn the essentials of working in early childhood first, you might be interested in some of the other courses Solis College has on offer:
CHC30121 – Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care
This course equips students to work in childcare or early childhood education environments such as kindergartens and childcare centres. Students learn to safely and ethically care for children of a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds, working within an approved learning framework.
They support children’s play and learning while maintaining their wellbeing, safety, and healthy development. Graduates can operate with other educators as part of a team, or work independently, and can operate within set rules and guidelines.
If you’re looking to build your career and get well established in the early childhood sector, the CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care is a superb choice of qualification that opens doors to a range of roles throughout the industry.
It also has a well-deserved reputation for being the final qualification you’ll ever need – with most graduates moving into the workforce after graduating, and very few undertaking additional training. In fact, in 2023, Jobs and Skills Australia reported the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care as having the third lowest rate of progression to other VET training – less than 1% of graduates went on to study additional vet qualifications.
While some students (around 10% continued into University study) this still means that nearly 90% of CHC50121 graduates chose to make the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care the last step in their educational road – they’d got to where they wanted to be.
With a steady flow of work, a range of solid career prospects, and daily opportunities to make a difference in the lives of young people, doing a diploma in early childhood education is an excellent way to take your career in a stable, satisfying, and rewarding direction.
A diploma in early childhood education is a full-time commitment, and students should be sure to allow at least 20 hours each week to attend classes, work through training resources and complete assignments. The actual time required each week may fluctuate from student to student, depending on their work pace and any prior learning they may have.
It should be noted that the CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care course includes a mandatory work placement component, requiring students to spend 280 hours in a professional early childhood setting.
This component of the training will generally involve a much larger time commitment – normally the equivalent of a full-time workload in the early childhood industry.
If you’ve worked in a field closely aligned to early childhood education and care, or you have transferable skills or workplace training relevant to what you’ll be studying in the chc50121 diploma, you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning (RPL) for your course. This would formally acknowledge the knowledge and skills you already have, meaning you may not need to attend some portions of the training.
In some cases, this may allow you to complete your diploma in a shorter time frame – depending on the course schedule.
Similarly, if you’ve completed another related course which included training units that are either taught in the early childhood diploma, or able to be counted as elective units, you may be eligible for a credit transfer – granting you credit for those units. Again, this might allow you to finish your course in a shorter time.
If you believe you have skills, training or experience that may be relevant to a diploma in early childhood education, you should talk to our enrolments team to discuss your options.
To enrol in the CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care, students must first hold one of the following required qualifications:
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In addition to this, before they can enrol in a diploma in early childhood with Solis College, they must meet the following basic criteria:
2 years includin placement
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Quarterly Intake
All specialised equipment or learning resources needed for the course are provided by Solis College at our learning venue. However, students will require a few common items of technology and digital resources to take part in the training. For the duration of the course, students will need access to:
Solis College uses a range of different assessment methods to assess the progress of students in the CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care course. This helps to avoid over-dependence on any one form of assessment, allowing us to support students with a range of different learning styles and academic strengths.
Students might be assessed through:
Successful completion of a training unit will require a satisfactory result in each assessment for the unit.
If you were unable to successfully complete any of the assessments for your training, this does not yet mean you will be unable to complete the relevant training module and graduate the course. Rather, for each unsatisfactory result you will be given one opportunity to re-attempt the assessment and improve your result. You will only be marked unsuccessful in the unit if you receive an unsatisfactory result on this second attempt.
While this will most likely prevent you from graduating from the course on the original expected date, you should note that you will only need to retake the specific unit or units you were unsuccessful in to be eligible to graduate (provided you receive a successful result when re-attempting the module).
The CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care is an accredited course under the National Register of Vocational Education and Training. It's provided by a recognised Australian RTO, and meets the requirements of all relevant regulatory industry bodies.
What this means is that when doing your Diploma with Solis College, you can be confident it will be recognised by early childhood educators and workplaces throughout Australia.
As the standards for VET training packages are updated on a semi-regular basis, qualifications are regularly updated and replaced by new equivalent training packages. Because of this, it is sometimes possible that a qualified childcare worker or educator may be asked if they hold an older version of the early childhood diploma, such as the CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care.
This is generally due to employers working with outdated information or older reference material. In any case, students should be aware that the CHC50121 course is the most current training package of its kind, and has now officially replaced those older courses in all official contexts.
Some of the older qualifications now replaced by the CHC50121 diploma include:
The Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care can open the door to a wide variety of roles and career paths. Whether you're a long-term childcare worker looking to take your career forward, or new to the industry and keen to make a positive impact, the qualification opens doors to a range of specialist and leadership roles within the education and care sector.
Some of the jobs and career opportunities open to CHC50121 graduates include:
If you're thinking about doing a diploma in early childhood education and you'd like to find out more information, or if you have questions about Solis College and how we do things, we'd love to help. To talk to one of our team directly, simply call us on 0410 140 757 during normal business hours.
Alternatively, you can reach out to us via the contact page on this site, or by emailing us at info@soliscollege.sa.edu.au at any time of the day or night. We'd love to hear from you and answer any queries you might have.
Of course, if you've already made up your mind to study with Solis College and you want to get started right away, you can fill out an online enrolment application right here on the website. Simply read through our how-to-apply information (for domestic or international students), and then fill out an online application using the links below.
Online enrolment application:
