Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick offers Cert in Early Childhood Education, a certificate in Early Childhood Education programme in Miramichi, Canada. The programme runs for 30 weeks. Tuition for international students is CAD 10,258 per year (CAD 3,662 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Early Childhood Education
Duration: 30 weeks
Local tuition: CAD 3,662 / year
International tuition: CAD 10,258 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Early Childhood Education is a certificate program offered by the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) that prepares students to support children's development in educational daycare settings. The curriculum is built around applying New Brunswick's francophone early-childhood education curriculum and designing stimulating learning environments for children from infancy through the school-age years, combining laboratory-based experimentation with placements in real childcare settings. Coursework includes observing and documenting the development of infants, toddlers, and school-age children, health and safety in daycare settings, and structured integration placements for different age groups. The program is offered at the Dieppe, Edmundston, and Péninsule acadienne campuses as well as online, with both full-time and part-time delivery options, including a work-study format that combines classroom time with paid workplace hours. It suits students who build trust easily with children, enjoy planning and leading activities, and bring organization, observation skills, and a strong sense of responsibility to their work.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission follows CCNB's Profile A: a New Brunswick high school diploma (regular, modified, or adult programme; PCE/PCR; CESA; PCEA), or GED/CCÉA; applicants who do not meet this pathway may instead pass the CCNB admission test, and international applicants need an equivalent secondary diploma plus this test. Students must apply, at their own expense, for a criminal record check through the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) via local police, must be able to show a clean record throughout the programme to keep access to practicums and educational activities, and must comply with the Department of Social Development's record-check directive. No French test score is stated on the programme page; As with all CCNB programmes, applicants whose mother tongue is not French, or who have not completed at least three years of French-language secondary schooling or a French-language postsecondary programme, must demonstrate French proficiency through the TFI (minimum score 700), TCF or TEF Canada (level B2), DELF (B2), or DALF (C1).
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick publishes no fixed application opening or closing dates, for either domestic or international applicants, for the autumn or winter session; the selection process begins in November for the following academic year, and complete applications are evaluated on a rolling basis as they are received. Rather than calendar deadlines, CCNB publishes a list, refreshed each cycle, of which programmes currently have admissions open (a 2026-27 list is live, covering Automne 2026), and it recommends applying early because some programmes draw more applications than seats available. Once an offer is made, domestic applicants have 30 days to confirm their place, while international applicants have 21 days. No separate international application deadline exists; the same rolling process applies to international applicants. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
