Education (Secondary) and Business

Students undertake professional placement included in the instruction component of this course, obtaining the hands-on-experience to succeed within their teaching career. In the business level, students tackle a broad based introduction and an eight main units in an assortment often business disciplines. The business component offers many practical chances, including internships and career preparation workshops. Teachers can function as secondary school educators in two teaching areas, one being business plus one being English, geography, mathematics or history. Graduates may also work as accountants, marketers, economists and managers, coaches in business, or educational leaders. Entrepreneurial skills can equip graduates to build enterprises for social benefit or services and products for your education profession.

This class meets professional teaching standards for the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, and Queensland College of Teachers and pupils are eligible to apply for teacher registration. Graduates looking for employment in other areas of Australia and overseas may have to meet additional problems. Subject to choice of Business major and units: CPA Australia; Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and Institute of Public Accountants. Account Planning Group Australia, the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association, the Australian Direct Marketing Association, the Communications Council, Young-bloods and N-Gen. Economics Society of Australia. Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Australian Human Resources Institute, Society of Human Resource Management (USA), Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Training and Development. Australian Institute of Export, the Logistics Association of Australia and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. Australian Marketing Institute, the Market Research Society of Australia, the Australian Institute of Management, the American Marketing Association, Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Australian Institute of Export. Public Relations Institute of Australia. Financial Planning Association.

• Year 12 or equivalent
• Pre Requisites: English, or Literature, or English and Literature, or English as an Additional Language (Units 4 and 3, C)
• And at least one of General Mathematics, or Mathematical Procedures, or Specialist Mathematics (Units 4 and 3, C).
  Applicants must submit a statement addressing suitability criteria.