Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership |
| Deakin course code | E556 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | Offered Online For students who commenced prior to 2025 only |
| Online | No |
The final intake to this course was in Trimester 2 2024. Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information. Further course structure information can be found in the handbook archive. | |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Other learning experiences
- Fees and charges
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.
For more information go to DeakinTALENT.
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.
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 at Faculty Board 2019
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Education Business Leadership students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate.
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 4 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Core units
| ECM720 | Educational Context, Policy and Leadership in Challenging Times (replaces ELT701) |
| ECM721 | Evidence, Analysis and Evaluation for Educational Improvement (replaces ELT703) |
| ECM722 | Leading for Staff Development and Well-Being (replaces ELT702) |
| ECM723 | Leading and Managing Innovation, Change and Improvement (replaces ELT700) |
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing 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.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or 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.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.