AIA supports International students in pathways to new careers. AIA offers a number of courses that provide essential skills to enhance career pathways and ensuring strong future in your profession. Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care is a centrepiece courses providing dynamic Work Placement experiences underpinning studies and ensuring success in your career. Ms Joan Stone is our CEO of Australasian international Academy, Cubbyhouse Childcare Australia Pty Ltd and Young Scholars Long Day Care, along with the 30 years experience in the Childcare Industry, now operating 32 Centres throughout the Sydney Metropolitan and Central Coast Area. AIA can urtilize these resources providing dynamic work placement opportunities for our students who enrol in our Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care & Diploma of School Age Education and Care. Early childhood is a crucial stage of life in terms of a child's physical, intellectual, emotional and social development. Development of these abilities progress at an astounding rate and a very high proportion of learning takes place from birth to age six. It is a time when children particularly need high quality personal care and learning experiences. Education begins from the moment the child is brought home from hospital and continues on when the child starts to attend playgroups and kindergartens. The Learning capabilities of humans continue for the rest of the their lives but not at the intensity that is demonstrated in the preschool years. With this in mind, babies and toddlers need positive early learning experiences to help their intellectual, social and emotional development and this lays the foundation for later school success. AIA will offer our students a dynamic learning experience and a career path in Early Childhood and School Age Care, more information is available on request beginning in January 2017 intake.