Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

Based on the 2026 Fee-Free TAFE course list published on the CIT website, the Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care does not appear on the listed Fee-Free TAFE courses for 2026. Prospective students should check the specific course entry on the CIT website or contact CIT directly to confirm current availability and application types.

Fee-Free TAFE covers course tuition fees only; this is the indicative course cost listed on the CIT course webpage. It does not cover the cost for any learning resources such as textbooks or other equipment required for the course.

Prospective Fee-Free TAFE students at CIT have six key steps: Enquire (register your interest to enquire about a course), Apply (apply for the course you are interested in), Assess (CIT will assess your application against the eligibility criteria and course requirements), Offer (if you meet the listed Fee-Free TAFE eligibility requirements and places are available, you will receive an offer to enrol), Enrol (enrolling into subjects is a critical step to securing your Fee-Free TAFE place), and Attend (attending and engaging in your subjects is the critical last step to keeping your Fee-Free TAFE place).

Fee-Free TAFE will continue at CIT with approximately 600 fee-free places available for Canberrans in each semester until December 2026. If the allocation of Fee-Free TAFE places for a course is exhausted while applications are being processed, places will not be offered, and no further Fee-Free TAFE applications will be accepted. CIT will not be maintaining any waitlists.

If you withdraw in full from a Fee-Free TAFE course you will forfeit the fee free place. If you disengage from study without any communication for more than 90 days, you will also forfeit the fee free place, though you can still complete the course with fees applying. As a CIT Fee-Free TAFE student you can re-enrol once into a unit/subject where you have not successfully passed the unit/subject the first time; any additional re-enrolment into that unit/subject will incur fees.