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Professor Simon Clarke is coordinating the Graduate Diploma of Educational Leadership designed to be attuned to the changing world of school leaders.

In the words of Andy Hargreaves, ‘mediocre managers who are not up to the job, heroic individuals who cannot be copied, or self-sacrificing martyrs who burn themselves out are not the right models for the leadership of the future’ (Hargreaves, 2006). Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia Incorporated (AISWA) and West Australian Primary Principals Association (WAPPA) are partnering with the Faculty of Education to promote an approach to leadership development premised on the belief that school leaders of the future not only need to be powerful leaders of learning, but they also need to be powerful learners themselves.

The Diploma is structured to enable cohesive cohorts of participants engaging in collegial dialogue around issues and concerns arising from the day-to-day realities of school leadership.

We are delighted with the strength of the partnerships we have forged with these two peak bodies and believe that we are helping to promote school ‘leadership that matters, school leadership that spreads and school leadership that lasts’ (Hargreaves, 2006).