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Master of Arts (Religious Education)

with nested Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate

Teach Christianly with confidence

Applications are open for Semester 2. Apply now and study in 2013!

  • Integrate your faith with your profession and your career
  • Develop values-based teaching, leadership and ethical decision making skills
  • Network with influential educational leaders, mentors and employers
  • Online delivery with program flexibility
  • Study from a Christian worldview and encounter sound Biblical perspectives in every course unit
  • FEE-HELP is available

About the Course

The Master of Arts (Religious Education) is a signature degree for accomplished teachers, and for existing and emerging educational leaders of schools and school systems. You may be:

  • a leader, or aspiring leader of a department, school or school system where education from a Christian perspective is central and essential
  • a teacher seeking to integrate your faith with and within your subject area
  • a teacher of Religious, Biblical, or Christian Studies and/or related subjects
  • a school chaplain, counsellor or pastoral care worker with significant curriculum or co-curriculum teaching responsibilities.
The course is designed to equip you with understandings, skills and values that will enable you to grow and develop as a grounded, resilient and influential education professional. Through the Master of Arts (Religious Education) you will develop wide-ranging abilities to:
  • apply Biblical understandings that provide a critical foundation for education and educational leadership
  • develop coherent links between values, beliefs and behaviours
  • build and maintain positive cultures, values and behaviours in schools
  • enhance the positive christian impact of schools
FEE-HELP is available.

Continuing Professional Development


The Master of Arts (Religious Education) is an accredited postgraduate course that may satisfy the structured CPD requirements to maintain teaching accreditation at Professional Competence, as long as it relates to your relevant area of teaching, or future area of teaching (if re-training).*

For more information, and to apply for the Master of Arts (Religious Education) to be considered towards meeting your CPD requirements by the NSW Institute of Teachers, click here.

*To maintain accreditation at Professional Competence, teachers are required to complete 100 hours of CPD over a five-year period in one or more of the following categories:
  • Undergraduate studies that support the Professional Teaching Standards
  • Postgraduate studies that support the Professional Teaching Standards
  • 50 hours of NSW Institute of Teachers Registered PD activities and 50 hours of Teacher Identified PD
Undergraduate and postgraduate studies have to be in accredited courses that are relevant to the individual teacher’s profile. The teacher has to apply to the NSW Institute of Teachers showing how the study is relevant, which standards it supports and why.

Further Course Information

  • Click here to read about the course structure, entry requirements, flexibility and faculty.
  • View a overview of course units here.
  • Download an Application Form.
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"The new Master of Arts program provides an opportunity for those educators who are looking to move further in education and into positions of leadership. I would say that today, its an expectation that anyone going into education leadership will have done some post-graduate study"

Tony George
Principal,
St Stephens School, WA.