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WORKING WITH PEOPLE
CERTIFICATES
In an increasingly impersonal society, employers are increasingly seeking staff with strong interpersonal skills, to work in all sorts of capacities – everything from management or training positions to sales or hospitality. These skills are particularly important in the Service Industry, which has shown huge growth over the past decade.
Train For the Future/ Not the Present
The problem with most training courses is that they have been developed to serve needs that where identified in the past, or at best, the present. The problem is that the world economy is developing so quickly, that the difference between employment conditions of today, and those when you graduate, will be greater than ever. If you want a training course that serves you well, then you need one that provides you with the knowledge and skills that will allow you to understand and adapt to future employment needs.
The most successful people have always had one thing in common: they do things a little differently from most people. With this in mind, our courses offer huge flexibility in order that every graduate can be a little different from everyone else who studies with us, or anyone else for that matter. If you design your own certificate or diploma, it is next to impossible that you will ever be competing with someone for a job who has the same mix of subjects that you have studied. As a graduate of this school, that makes you unique! With such unique training, your approach to problems in the workplace is also more likely to be much different to the "average" employee.
You can design your own Certificate…
We now offer greater flexibility than ever before! Utilise any of our 100 hour short courses as a credit towards a formal qualification. (Each 100 hour course equals 1 unit).
REQUIREMENTS
Certificate: 6 units, all in the same subject, or a related subject area. The subjects you choose should be confirmed as being suitable with the school.
Advanced Certificates: 8 units in the same or a related subject area, plus 100 hours of work experience or industry related meetings in an industry that reinforces or builds on the material you study as part of the Advanced Certificate.
PRE-REQUISITES
Certificates: Year 10 or mature age, or 1 year of work experience.
Advanced Certificates: Year 11 or mature age, a recognised Certificate, or 1 year work experience.
The Certificates & Advanced Certificates have been developed to meet the standard established by the International Accreditation & Recognition Council (IARC), and have been formally recognised by that body.
FEES:
There are two options:
- Pay for each unit individually when you enrol it. By paying the individual fee for each unit at the time you enrol. This may make payment easier, as payment amounts are lower, but the total cost of your course ends up higher than for Option 2.
- Pay for the entire qualification (see our current Fee Schedule). The overall cost ends up lower this way.
Modules Offered
Any of the following modules have a relevance to working with people, and as such, could be chosen as part of a certificate or diploma.
- Psychology I & II
- Supervision I, II & III
- Instructional Skills
- Introduction to Psychology
- Psychology & Counselling
- Industrial Psychology
- Counselling Skills I & II
- Careers Counselling
- Professional Practice in Counselling
- Crisis Counselling
- Grief and Bereavement Counselling
- Counselling Techniques
- Educational Counselling
- Relationships Counselling
- Multicultural Awareness
- Life Coaching
- Child Psychology
- Conflict Management
- Sports Psychology I
- Sports Psychology II (available 2004)
- Social Psychology I
- Biopsychology I
- Biopsychology II (available mid 2003)
- Marketing Psychology
- Stress Management I
- Professional Supervision
- Psychopharmacology
- Health & Fitness I, II & III
- Play Leadership
- Recreation Leadership
- Using the Internet
- Freelance Writing
- Applied Freelance Writing
- Publishing
If studying an Advanced Certificate or higher, you are likely to gain employment in a supervisory or management position, and as such it is both acceptable and advisable for you to also include some management modules in your selection.
Research Projects
There are three distinct Research Project modules available, which are compulsory components in some courses; and options that may be chosen by the student for others.
Each is 100 hrs duration, and involves two parts.
The first part develops general research skills through some conventional correspondence study. The second part involves developing and carrying through a research project that focuses on a subject relevant to the students chosen discipline, decided upon in liaison with their tutor.
Research Project I develops the students' capability to plan and conduct research into the current status of an aspect of their industry, and to complete a descriptive report based on that research. It also aims to apply and build on skills and competencies gained through previously studied modules, developing initiative and innovation.
Throughout this module the student will:
- Determine areas where there is need for research, relevant to the student's area of study.
- Explain research methods, including experimental techniques.
- Demonstrate and explain the basic statistical methods used for research.
- Prepare a research report in a format, which conforms to normal industry procedures.
- Conduct an information search into a defined and relevant issue.
- Conduct a minor statistical research project into a well defined area.
- Prepare a report on a research project conducted into a relevant subject.
Research Project II further develops the students ability to monitor and evaluate a common process (or processes) relevant to their studies.
Research Project III builds on the prior research projects, improving the students abilities to develop innovative approaches to workplace activities, through systematic research, in a relevant industry.
CERTIFICATES & DIPLOMAS
The following are examples only of the types of courses you can put together using our highly flexible system. All of these courses meet international standards and are "Internationally Accredited through the International Accreditation & Recognition Council".
Certificate in Child Development and Care
- Introduction to Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Playleadership
- Human Nutrition I
- Children's Writing
- Health & Fitness I
Certificate in Child Development
- Educational Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Playleadership
- Human Nutrition I
- Human Biology IA or
- Health & Fitness I
Certificate in Supervision
- Supervision I, II & III
- Instructional Skills
- Workplace Health & Safety
- Industrial Psychology
Certificate in Personnel Management
- Supervision I & II
- Instructional Skills
- Industrial Psychology
- Project Management
- Business Planning
Certificate in Psychology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Psychology & Counselling
- Plus any four other Psych courses.
Advanced Certificate in Personnel Management –Hospitality & Tourism
- Supervision I, II & III
- Instructional Skills
- Hotel Management
- Food & Beverage Management
- Workplace Health & Safety
- Recreation Marketing
- Industry Meetings (eg. seminars) –100 hours
Diploma in Human Resource Management
- Management
- Supervision I, II & III
- Instructional Skills
- Introduction to Psychology
- Psychology & Counselling
- Industrial Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Sports Psychology
- Conflict Management
- Project Management
- Business Planning
- Workplace Health & Safety
- Health & Fitness I
- Business Studies
- Sales Management
- Using the Internet
- Industry Meetings (eg. seminars) –100 hours
- Research Project I & II
How do these courses compare with TAFE or University Courses?
In general, courses offered by this school are:
- Different to both TAFE and university
- A higher academic emphasis than TAFE
- We emphasise learning; the TAFE Training Package System emphasises assessment
- We emphasise underpinning knowledge, innovation & industry networking
- A stronger vocational emphasis than many university courses
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