Cégep André Laurendeau offers Diploma in Techniques d’éducation à l’enfance, a diploma in Early Childhood Education programme in Montréal, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Early Childhood Education
Duration: 3 years
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Techniques d'éducation à l'enfance is a technical DEC (322.A1) at Cégep André-Laurendeau preparing students to work with young children in educational and care settings. The program develops skills in ensuring children's health, safety, and well-being; creating an inclusive and stimulating environment for their overall development; planning and carrying out educational activities; and collaborating with families, colleagues, and other professionals. Learning combines a play laboratory, activities at a CPE (early-childhood centre) and an elementary school, and direct work with children aged zero to twelve, supported by specialized rooms for dramatic and artistic expression, music, psychomotor activities, and science awareness, a materials library, an interactive room for teamwork, and a room for observing children's behaviour during play. The page notes the program is offered on both a two-year and a three-year course sequence and describes it as a DEC-portable program. Graduates find strong demand across CPEs, family and school-based childcare services, and roles such as service-quality evaluator or assistant director, and can continue to university in fields such as preschool and elementary teaching, special-needs education, psychoeducation, social work, or recreation studies, with some universities crediting coursework toward related certificates. It suits students drawn to hands-on, relationship-based work supporting early childhood development.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Prerequisites (préalables), exactly as published on the program's own page: DES (Diplôme d'études secondaires); the program page states no further subject-specific prerequisite beyond the diploma. No minimum grade, interview, portfolio, or language test beyond the general Quebec-college process is stated on the program page. Admission follows the college's general process: apply online through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM) at admission.sram.qc.ca, which handles admission for every Montreal-area Cégep, with the college making the final decision. First-round deadlines are 1 March for Fall (applications open mid-January) and 1 November for Winter (applications open mid-September); where more qualified applicants apply than there are seats, the Cote R (R-score), based on cumulative average, ministerial-exam results and program prerequisites, ranks candidates. This is one of the college's limited technical programs open to international students, per the institution's international-admission page; international entry requires a minimum of 11 years of prior schooling plus the program's own prerequisites, and applicants must pass a qualifying French-language test — Bright, TCF tout public, DALF, or TEF — at SRAM sign-up unless exempt as French nationals under the Quebec–France agreement.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through SRAM: Fall 2027 entry opens mid-January 2027 with a first-round deadline of 1 March 2027; Winter 2027 entry opens mid-September 2026 (SRAM: 15 September 2026) with a deadline of 1 November 2026. International applicants also use SRAM: the Fall 2027 deadline is 14 March 2027; the Winter 2027 international window already closed 31 May 2026, so the live one is Winter 2028 entry, closing 31 May 2027. Only a handful of technical programmes (Soins infirmiers, Techniques d'éducation à l'enfance, Techniques de travail social, Gestion des opérations et de la chaîne logistique, and one more) admit international students. Admission is not rolling beyond SRAM's rounds. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
