Postgraduate Award Courses

Postgraduate courses cover a wide range of areas relevant to local government professionals including:

• strategic and social planning and research
• land use, strategic and infrastructure planning
• community participation and stakeholder engagement
• financial sustainability and asset management
• environment and sustainability
• corporate governance
• team building
• development assessment and building certification
• leadership and ethics.
   

For more information contact Gabrielle Watterson: 02 9514 1659 / [email protected].

See also:

• Professionals awarded Graduate diploma ready for sector challenges
• Master of Local Government graduates career-ready.

Master of Local Government

The Master of Local Government offers an academic pathway for senior local government practitioners who want a higher level qualification and who previously may have considered a Master in Business Administration or a Master in Public Administration. The Master of Local Government will provide graduates with an evidence-based learning approach to build a high level of influence and leadership in their local government workplace. Core program subjects focus on leadership, management and governance in local government and a range of elective subjects cover a variety of contemporary sector issues, topics and the skills needed to address them.

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Graduate Diploma in Local Government Management

Today's Local Government manager must combine a high level of professional expertise with a broad range of managerial skills and a sound understanding of the sector’s changing needs and priorities. To meet your needs, the UTS Centre for Local Government offers a unique, high quality graduate diploma that incorporates specialised professional development courses. The program can be completed as a Graduate Diploma in Local Government Management, or used as a stepping-stone to a Master's degree.

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Graduate Certificate in Local Government Leadership

The context of local government in Australia is changing significantly. Structural reform, the diversity, complexity and expectations of communities, changes in political direction, increased accountability to multiple stakeholders and outcomes, emphasis on innovative approaches to service delivery, environmental concerns, skills shortages, economic pressures and the boom in community and technology require a new style of leadership that is adaptable, resilient, collaborative and different to more traditional managerial archetypes.

Local government needs to nurture its new generation of leaders by equipping them with thinking, tools and approaches. The UTS Graduate Certificate is part of a national Advancing Leadership Initiative established by the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government, and is tailored to advance the leadership capability of aspiring middle and senior managers and amongst elected members, via a unique combination of academic thinking and practitioner experience within a university environment. Students who complete the Graduate Certificate may receive credit for subjects completed towards the Centre’s Graduate Diploma in Local Government Management and the Master of Local Government.

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Graduate Certificate in Development Assessment

Development assessment has become one of local government’s most important activities. It is becoming increasingly complex, requiring ever more staff and resources. Some people working in development assessment will wish to undertake a degree course in planning to further their careers. For others a specialist qualification in development assessment may be more appropriate, for example to complement a first degree or TAFE qualification in building surveying, engineering, environmental studies or another relevant field. This is the purpose of the Graduate Certificate in Development Assessment.

Students who complete the Graduate Certificate may receive credit for subjects completed towards the Centre’s Graduate Diploma in Local Government Management and the Master of Local Government (contact the Centre for details).

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Future Postgraduate Courses

The Centre is always looking to expand its education and training offerings in response to the needs of the sector and emerging issues. Currently it is developing a subject in Recreation Planning which will be available as an elective later in 2014 or early 2015. Depending on levels of interest, other subjects in the community development area may be explored.