Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education (DECE )

• Eligibility: 10+2 or its equivalent
• Medium : English
• Minimum Duration : 1 Year
• Maximum Duration : 4 Years
• Programme structure: The Programme consists of 4 courses and a project comprising practical Translation. The Diploma Programme is very specifically vocational in nature,opening avenues for employment as well as self- employment.

Course Code	Title of the courses	Credits
DECE-01	Organizing child care services	8
DECE-02	Child Health and Nurition	8
DECE-03	Services and Programmes for Children	8
DECE-04	Project work:Working with young children in a child care setting	8
	Total	32

Project work:
For the Project work , the learner is placed in a nursery school for 30 working days. The learner is required to carry out play activities with the child there. The play activities have to be planned and carried out by the learner based on the board parameters indicated in the Project Manual. For the duration of the project work, the learner will be attached to a Guide,who will be a pre-school educator from the nursery school where the learner has been placed for the project work.

The Project work has been desinged to give the learners hands-on experience. Learning in the actual field situation under the guidance of a judiciously selected professional (pre-school educators) is expected to help the learner in imbibing and developing the requisite skills,leading to better undrestanding of how the theoretical concepts may be translated into practice and make a major contribution to the development of the learner's competence.