Microcredentials

Designed for busy professionals, these flexible microcredentials will provide you with practical skills in safeguarding children, focusing on ethics, legal compliance, risk management, and prevention strategies. Acknowledging local and global challenges, these microcredentials integrate current research and best practice to empower educators with the skills needed to implement effective, and culturally sensitive safeguarding practices.

Each microcredential can be completed progressively or as a standalone course.

The six Safeguarding Children Microcredentials include:

• Safeguarding Children 1 Ethics Values and Practice
• Safeguarding Children 2: Strengthening Institutional Responses for Abuse Prevention
• Safeguarding Children 3: Professional Ethics in Working with Children
• Safeguarding Children 4: Wellbeing and Social Support Practices
• Safeguarding Children 5: Legal and Policy Frameworks
• Safeguarding Children 6: Risk Management and Digital Environments

Available online with 2-day face-to-face intensive.

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The Industrial Technology Microcredentials offers a unique opportunity for Technologies and Applied Sciences (TAS) teachers to expand their expertise, deepen their specialist knowledge, and stay at the forefront of innovation. If you're passionate about using technology to solve real-world challenges, upskilling will empower you to bring fresh ideas and dynamic perspectives to your classroom.

Tailor your learning with eight microcredentials that can be completed progressively or as stand-alone microcredentials, providing flexible professional development. Each badged microcredential contributes towards accreditation and offers a credit pathway into the Graduate Diploma in Design and Technologies Education.

Students will explore units in:

• timber design
• product design
• industrial technology
• electromechanical and engineering technologies
• design and technologies curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.

Available online-multimode.

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These microcredentials will provide you with an opportunity to acquire advanced knowledge and skills that will equip you to better manage potentially stressful and confronting classroom environments and individual students who may be unpredictable and uncooperative. Offered through the Faculty of Education and Arts' Learning and Leadership Enterprise (LLE), each microcredential is delivered via a sequence of online modules, discussion sessions and SimLab simulations over a 5-6 week period.

The two microcredentials you will explore are: UNMC501:Proactive Engagement with Confronting Behaviour, UNMC502: Managing Critical Incidents in Educational Settings.

Available online-multimode.

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These microcredentials present theory and practical components in culinary nutrition science for continuing professional development for a range of professions from nutrition and dietetics, to general practitioners, teachers and culinary professionals. The theory microcredentials are delivered online, and the practical microcredentials are delivered in either face-to-face intensive mode in the commercial teaching kitchens of our third-party partners in Melbourne and North Sydney, or virtually.

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These two microcredentials provide a comprehensive foundation in project management, focusing on both the theoretical principals and practical applications essential for effective project planning and execution. You will gain in-depth knowledge and advanced skills that will equip you to manage project planning and delivery. This includes proven methodologies, tools, and processes, as well as developing the leadership capabilities needed to manage projects of varying scales or impacts.

The two microcredentials are:

• UNMC125 - Project Management Fundamentals
• UNMC126 - Applied Project Management

These units are designed to align with modern standards and best practices in project management.

Currently available in Townsville and Brisbane only.

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