Leadership in Education
Overview
Are you keen to identify and build on your strengths as a leader and gain an understanding of the relational and contextual nature of leadership?
Join our graduates, who have come from a wide variety of sectors with diverse qualifications, and gone on to lead positive change in their respective fields. You may be a current or future human resource manager, a school principal, aspiring teacher or departmental officer, a policy developer, vocational education sector manager, or a leader of a university academic or administration unit.
The Graduate Certificate and Master of Leadership in Education focus on working with aspiring, middle and senior leaders to:
- understand how they might grow their leadership as change agents with knowledge and relational sensibilities to work with others for a better world
- identify where traditional notions of leadership must change; and
- support leadership which recognises local and global contexts, judgement, and relationships as fundamental to the way forward.
Flinders’ Graduate Certificate and Master of Leadership in Education course offerings are distinctive in that they approach educational leadership from a humanistic perspective. Energetic, passionate staff will prepare you to think relationally and contextually to employ the skills and knowledge you gain in the classroom to the real world.
Both the Graduate Certificate and Masters can be completed fully online, providing you with the flexibility to study at your own pace and in your own time.
Up to 80% off fees due to Government subsidies*.
*Government subsidies enable Flinders to offer Domestic applicants a reduction of up to 80% off full course fees through Commonwealth Supported Places. Offer subject to change.
Overview
Are you keen to identify and build on your strengths as a leader and gain an understanding of the relational and contextual nature of leadership?
Join our graduates, who have come from a wide variety of sectors with diverse qualifications, and gone on to lead positive change in their respective fields. You may be a current or future human resource manager, a school principal, aspiring teacher or departmental officer, a policy developer, vocational education sector manager, or a leader of a university academic or administration unit.
The Master of Leadership in Education focuses on working with aspiring, middle and senior leaders to:
- understand how they might grow their leadership as change agents with knowledge and relational sensibilities to work with others for a better world
- identify where traditional notions of leadership must change; and
- support leadership which recognises local and global contexts, judgement, and relationships as fundamental to the way forward.
Flinders’ Master of Leadership in Education course is distinctive in that it approaches educational leadership from a humanistic perspective. Energetic, passionate staff will prepare you to think relationally and contextually to employ the skills and knowledge you gain in the classroom to the real world.
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Courses
Graduate Certificate in
Leadership in Education
Duration: 1 year (part-time only)
Delivery mode:
In person
Online
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Part-time only
Start dates:
March
July
SATAC code:
2GC657 (full fee paying)
2GC157 (Commonwealth supported)
Annual indicative fees (2023):
$2,062 (Commonwealth supported)
$10,764 (Full-fee paying)
Master of Leadership in Education
Duration: 1.5 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Online
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Full-time
Part-time
Start dates:
March
July
SATAC code: 2CM696
Annual indicative fees (2023):
$22,066 (Full-fee paying)
Master of Leadership in Education
Duration: 2 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Online
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Full-time
Part-time
Start dates:
March
July
SATAC code: 2CM262
Annual indicative fees (2023):
$22,066 (Full-fee paying)
Course
Master of Leadership in Education
Duration: 1.5 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Location:
Bedford Park
Start dates:
March
July
CRICOS code: 111916K
Annual fees:
2023: $34,000
Master of Leadership in Education
Duration: 2 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Location:
Bedford Park
Start dates:
March
July
CRICOS code: 105116D
Annual fees:
2023: $34,000
Shape your degree according to your needs
Our postgraduate education courses are designed to adapt to your needs and career goals, providing flexibility, versatility and diversity.
- Apply your learning to your own work environment, ensuring ongoing relevance and real-world results
- Develop your research capacity, transition into educational research, and/or lead educational change. Plan ahead for personal career goals such as a Higher Degree by Research.
Choose from our wide range of topics across the following Minor programs of study or elect to complete one or more Minors to develop areas of expertise within your Master of Leadership in Education degree. The completion of a Minor program of study, each comprised of four topics, will be recorded on your transcript.
Progress into the Master of Leadership in Education from any of the following Graduate Certificates:
The Graduate Certificate in Leadership in Education can be credited towards a Master degree at Flinders University in which a minor in Leadership in Education is included, enabling you to progress from the Graduate Certificate in Leadership in Education to Master qualification.
The following Master courses offered at Flinders University include a minor in Leadership in Education:
Shape your degree according to your needs
Our postgraduate education courses are designed to adapt to your needs and career goals, providing flexibility, versatility and diversity.
- Apply your learning to your own work environment, ensuring ongoing relevance and real-world results
- Develop your research capacity, transition into educational research, and/or lead educational change. Plan ahead for personal career goals such as a Higher Degree by Research.
Choose from our wide range of topics across the following Minor programs of study or elect to complete one or more Minors to develop areas of expertise within your Master of Leadership in Education degree. The completion of a Minor program of study, each comprised of four topics, will be recorded on your transcript.
Your career
A Master degree from Flinders University is an asset recognised locally, nationally and internationally for anyone seeking and/or furthering a career in educational contexts.
You will be equipped for careers in a wide range of settings, and a range of middle and senior level positions to contribute to the leadership of an organisation through developing and working with diverse groups of people to achieve a responsive organisation that meets the needs of the people it serves.
Potential occupations:
- Principal
- Wellbeing coordinator
- Subject/teaching and learning leader
- Community development officer
Potential employers:
- Department for Education
- Catholic education
- Independent sector
- Equivalent international sectors
- There are also opportunities in a range of fields with advancement to middle and senior levels of leadership positions.
Professional accreditation/recognition:
These courses can count towards professional learning.
These courses do not lead to teacher registration in South Australia.
Potential occupations:
- Principal
- Wellbeing coordinator
- Subject/teaching and learning leader
- Community development officer
Potential employers:
- Department for Education
- Catholic education
- Independent sector
- Equivalent international sectors
- There are also opportunities in a range of fields with advancement to middle and senior levels of leadership positions.
What you will study
In the Master of Leadership in Education you will study core topics and you may select from a range of option topics and minor programs of study to shape the degree according to your needs and interests.
In the Graduate Certificate in Leadership in Education you will study four core topics.
The topics integrate theory with practice, action with reflection, and questions with investigation. We provide students with the opportunity to examine research principles and methods and to apply those principles and methods in the evaluation and design of research into current educational issues in middle and senior leadership contexts.
The Graduate Certificate and/or Master of Leadership in Education works with middle and senior leaders in a variety of contexts including schooling contexts to understand how they might grow their leadership as change agents with knowledge and the relational sensibilities to work with others. The topics allow for you to critically discuss how leaders build human capacity and relationships within particular contexts to work with diverse groups of people in challenging times to support wellbeing and improved learning.
What you will study
In the Master of Leadership in Education you will study core topics and you may select from a range of option topics and minor programs of study to shape the degree according to your needs and interests.
The topics integrate theory with practice, action with reflection, and questions with investigation. We provide students with the opportunity to examine research principles and methods and to apply those principles and methods in the evaluation and design of research into current educational issues in middle and senior leadership contexts.
The Master of Leadership in Education works with middle and senior leaders in a variety of contexts including schooling contexts to understand how they might grow their leadership as change agents with knowledge and the relational sensibilities to work with others. The topics allow for you to critically discuss how leaders build human capacity and relationships within particular contexts to work with diverse groups of people in challenging times to support wellbeing and improved learning.
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Entry requirements
Graduate Certificate and Master (2 year)
Applicants must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification and have no less than two years of relevant work experience.
Master (1.5 year)
Applicants must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification in Education, Teaching or a closely related discipline and have no less than two years of work experience in an organisation.
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