If you are a leader or aspire to leadership in education, Flinders University’s postgraduate courses in educational leadership and management offer a unique and innovative approach to your ongoing professional learning.

Our courses are distinctive in that they approach educational leadership from a humanistic perspective. They are designed to identify and build on your strengths as a leader and give you an understanding of the relational and contextual nature of leadership. Our energetic and passionate staff will prepare you to apply the skills and knowledge you gain in the classroom to the real world.

The Flinders University educational leadership and management program is especially suitable for current and future human resource managers, knowledge managers, school principals and departmental officers, policy developers, vocational education sector managers, and leaders of university academic and administration units. Our students come from all organisational sectors, with diverse qualifications and share a common focus on building capacity within their organisations.

These courses do not lead to teacher registration in South Australia.

Graduates are suitable for careers in a variety of positions ranging from work as teachers in school classrooms, school coordinators and principals, curriculum and policy advisers in departments of education, and as advisors to government departments and other policy makers.

Professional accreditation/recognition

These courses do not lead to teacher registration in South Australia.