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).

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

• Study at the first university in Australia, and among only a few in the world, to offer the Tribes TLCTM Basic Course Certification as an accredited postgraduate unit.
• Be mentored by our experienced teaching professionals who are here to support you in becoming a confident, creative and flexible educator.
• 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.
• 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.
• You’ll be taught by leading academics who have worked in industry.

Develop your skills

Build essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals. Topics you’ll cover include:

• facilitating lifelong learning
• tertiary and adult education policy
• curriculum development for practitioners
• practical methods of instruction.

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).