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Graduate Certificate of Educational Studies

PostgraduateSWI-EDS-GCE2025

Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake

A step towards becoming a qualified primary teacher

Explore learning and development through the lens of primary school. This course serves as a springboard into education careers. You'll study how children behave in a classroom environment, and learning strategies for topics including art and maths.

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Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Credit available
Yes
Duration
6 months full time or part time equivalent
Total subjects
4

Indicative total fee

$12,880

Fee details

Available loans
Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)

Graduate Certificate of Educational Studies

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Entry requirements

Career opportunities

This postgraduate non-teaching qualification opens up to you a range of career opportunities in the field of education.

It is also a pathway to become a qualified teacher. With this qualification and completion of a non-academic suitability test such as CASPer, you will be able transfer into a Master of Teaching (Primary). And units you have completed in the Graduate Certificate of Educational Studies will be credited towards your teaching degree.

Australian job snapshots

Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.

Role

Earnings

Employment change

Primary School Teachers

$93K to $120K

Up 4.7%

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