Early Childhood Education
NZTC has a 40 year history of empowering early childhood educators with comprehensive and professional programs.
All qualifications on offer at NZTC are internationally recognised and NZQA approved.
Our vision is to empower our students with knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs that will enable them to be effective early childhood educators. To fulfill our vision we aim to:
- Deliver relevant and high quality academic training in early childhood education
- Provide a stimulating, supportive learning environment for our students
- Recognise the uniqueness of early childhood development in the life cycle
- Create a learning environment that enables our students to realise their highest potential
- Give our students practical skills for working in the early childhood sector
- Recognise and appreciate that our students are uniquely gifted and their individuality should be respected
- Educate our students to support the child's primary caregivers - the parents
- Acknowledge that early childhood teachers can make a difference in the lives of young children and their families
- Enable our students to be true professionals in their career
Early Childhood Education News

Sharing Heart during our Values Month
In our second week of Values Month we celebrate Heart – Ngākau.

Indian student excited to continue studies in New Zealand
Currently partway through her program, Avleen Kaur is looking forward to her bright future in ECE.

Celebrating Vision, Heart, Competence and Spirit in our 40th year
We kick-off our time-honoured tradition of Values Month, with our first value, Vision – Te Mata.