Graduate Diploma in Education Studies

Graduate Diploma

The Graduate Diploma in Education Studies is a one-year course intended to provide an educational qualification for those students wishing to exit from the two-year pre-service teaching degree, Master of Teaching.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Diploma

Duration

1 - 3 years full-time

Course Code

E6S

About this course

The Graduate Diploma in Education Studies is a one-year course intended to provide an educational qualification for those students wishing to exit from the two-year pre-service teaching degree, Master of Teaching. The program will be offered internally at Hobart campus, full time or part time, and by distance/on-line

This course cannot be used for teacher registration.

Entry requirements

Admission requirements do not apply for this course. The Graduate Diploma inEducation Studies is an exit award only. As such students will not be admitted directly into the course.

What you will learn

1 Utilise a reasoned and critical perspective on all aspects of education theory and practice.

2 Have a capacity to operate in highly diverse contexts, e.g. educational systems.

3 Have curricular and pedagogical competence which would enable effective contribution to educational contexts.

4 Be appropriately collaborative and team focussed in a community of learners.

5 Have the capacity to be resilient learners who make evidence-based lifelong contributions to related educational fields, e.g. curriculum development, learning programs in museums and other community-based organisations, training organisations, and communication-based industries.

Course structure

To qualify to exit with this award you must have completed 100 credit points from the Master of Teaching.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Teacher Education courses at University of Tasmania.

71.1%

Overall satisfaction

63.4%

Skill scale

66.7%

Teaching scale

89.2%

Employed full-time

$83k

Average salary

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