I have a degree in Commerce and it offered me no credit at all towards my early childhood teaching qualifications. I did the Cert 3 in children's services, then diploma and now I'm finishing up my bachelor of education, but the cert 3 qualifies you for aide work like Astrolady said. I did my TAFE studies part time two nights a week but there are are online TAFE courses if you do a search. Open Universities has some TAFE courses and OTEN has online TAFE courses in NSW for example.