ICL offers the Level 5 National Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care. This provides an introduction to ECE, an area of great growth in NZ and the rest of the world. There is a serious shortage of ECE workers in NZ and most of our graduates gain employment quickly. The National Certificate in ECE is ideal for a student who wants to work in NZ with children. The two practicums in the course give students valuable work experience which helps in the application for a job. Graduates mostly gain a full-time job and continue to study part time towards a level 7 diploma or degree.

The National Certificate belongs to the New Zealand government and was designed to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge to enable them to work in New Zealand childcare centres. It gives credit of up to a year towards the Diploma in ECE or Bachelor of Education degree delivered in a range of NZ and international tertiary institutions.