Graduate Diploma in Education (Tertiary and Workplace)

A teaching degree gives you the opportunity to help students gain the skills and ways of thinking they'll need to solve problems in the future. It allows you connect to people and inspire and support them to reach their potential.

This course could suit you if you're interested in transitioning to education from another discipline or already working in an adult learning context. For example, you might be working or aspiring to work as a lecturer, adult educator, facilitator, professional development facilitator, instructor or professional trainer.

You'll explore the concepts, theories and practice of adult education and build on your own areas of interest through your choice of electives, such as mentoring, teaching second/foreign languages and opportunities with e-learning among others.

If you have a Bachelor (undergraduate) degree in an area that's not in Education, you could use this course as a pathway into the Masters of Education (coursework).

3 reasons to study Education (Tertiary and Workplace) at Murdoch

1. Be mentored by our experienced teaching professionals who are here to support you in becoming a confident, creative and flexible educator.
2. Choose full-time, part-time, on-campus or online options to help you fit study into your working life. If you're an international student, you'll need to study full-time to meet your visa requirements.
3. Most of our classes take place after work hours during the week, starting after 4.30pm and some of our electives are offered as intensive options during summer and winter school holidays.

What you'll learn

• Facilitating lifelong learning
• Tertiary and adult education policy
• Curriculum development for practitioners
• Practical methods of instruction

Your future career

Graduates of this course have gone on to become university lecturers, vocational education and training (VET) teachers, adult educators, adult literacy teachers, human resources and industrial training officers, and professional development personnel.

Professional recognition

Successful completion of the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary and Workplace Education provides formal recognition of an adult education qualification against the national vocational education and training (VET) Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 (Standard 1, Clause 1.16).

For admission into one of our postgraduate degrees, you must provide evidence of the successful completion of a relevant degree from a recognised university, in addition to meeting Murdoch’s prescribed English Language requirements. At a minimum, to qualify for one of our postgraduate degrees, you must meet one of the following requirements.

Please note that entry requirements are dependent on the course you wish to study and as such, your specific course may have different entry requirements:

• A qualification equivalent to an AQF Associate Degree
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 in relevant discipline
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 with relevant work experience
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 with specific professional registration
• Postgraduate qualification of AQF Level 8 or above
• Submission of a Portfolio and/or substantial work experience

IELTS: Score: 6.5, with no band less than 6.0.

TOEFL: Score: 79+, with writing 21; speaking 18; reading 13; listening 13.

PEARSON: Score: 64+, with no communicative skill below 60.

CAMBRIDGE: Score: 176+, with no skill less than 169.

The path you take when you apply to Murdoch will vary depending on who you are and what you want to study.