Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership
2023 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2023 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership |
| Course Map | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2023. This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 2 2023. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| Online | Yes |
| Duration | 1 year part time |
| Deakin course code | E556 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Fees and charges
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Other learning experiences
Course overview
This Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership is grounded in contemporary practices and current issues in education policy. Participants will learn how to lead diverse teams and gain a comprehensive, contemporary and theoretical knowledge that will enable business leaders to develop and enact strategic planning with intuitive financial and governance practices.
This education business course will also help you become more confident in business leadership roles, and enhance your career progression options. You will gain insights into planning for resource implications that impact educational outcomes and learn essential strategies to use in the profession. The course is focused on ensuring accountability to a broad range of stakeholders in education.
Career opportunities
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership will develop theoretical and practical skills required of educational business leaders in the current Australian and global contexts of education.
Graduates will advance their capabilities through each unit that may lead to leadership and management roles in education and other industries. Graduates of the Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership also may utilise this course to enter higher university qualifications.
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Participation requirements
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, the type of fee place you hold, your commencement year, the units you choose and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
Use the Fee estimator to see course and unit fees applicable to your course and type of place. Further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods is available on our Current students fees website.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply practice-based, specialist knowledge to contemporary education business and planning to develop theoretical evidence-based strategies that lead change and process improvements |
| Communication | Employ a range of communication skills and strategies to engage with diverse stakeholders in order to build transparency, trust and collaboration in a variety of educational and organisational settings |
| Digital literacy | Apply a range of digital technologies to research, analyse, report, evaluate and communicate within a variety of educational and organisational settings |
| Critical thinking | Draw on professional experience and multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to make critically informed judgements in relation to professional educational policy and practice |
| Problem solving | Use professional experience and multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to analyse, evaluate and articulate solutions to authentic problems in educational practice |
| Self-management | Engage in ongoing reflective practice to enhance practical and theoretical knowledge of leadership and management in a variety of educational and organisational settings |
| Teamwork | Utilise teamwork theories to build collective efficacy as adaptable educational leaders and team members in order to navigate change and ambiguity |
| Global citizenship | Analyse ethical frameworks and practices in global, national and local systems and communities to support diverse stakeholders to meet educational outcomes |
| Approved by Faculty Board 2019 | |
Course rules
To be awarded a Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership, a student must successfully complete 4 credit points of core units as detailed below and AAI018 Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
Course structure
Core units
| ELT700 | Education Business Planning and Capacity Building |
| ELT701 | Governance in Education |
| ELT702 | Leading Strategy and Change in Education |
| ELT703 | Understanding Funding and Finance for Educational Outcomes |
Other course information
Course duration - additional information
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as accessing or completing work placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Other learning experiences
There will be opportunities throughout the course for students to apply and integrate learning to their own school and education settings.