Graduate Diploma in Education
Advance your career and stay up-to-date with current best practice with La Trobe's Graduate Diploma in Education. You'll develop your networks and grow your career as an educator and leader.
Deepen your foundations with core subjects on educational leadership, how humans learn and digital technologies. Then add a specialisation of your choosing, such as curriculum design, or inclusion and diversity.
This flexible course is designed for people who're working. Many subjects are delivered in intensive or blended modes, making it easier to fit study into your life. You can also study at your own pace, undertaking one to four subjects per semester.
If you'd like the option to further extend your skills, the Graduate Diploma in Education can also provide a fully credited pathway to the Master of Education.
You'll learn:
- Contemporary educational practice
- Develop your understanding of educational best practice.
- Diversity
- Explore diversity in educational contexts and plan for socially just and inclusive education.
- Research
- Explore educational research and learn how to incorporate it into your practice.
- Learning sciences
- Develop evidence-based practice around how humans learn.
- Leadership and team building
- Learn how to evaluate current practice and manage diversity in educational organisations.
The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 8 - Graduate Diploma.
Sample course structure
Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure.
To qualify for the award of Graduate Diploma in Education, students must complete a total of 120 credit points across 1 year.
