New partnership a win-win for Governance Institute and La Trobe University students

Governance Institute of Australia and La Trobe University have partnered to grant the Institute’s diploma graduates credit towards La Trobe Business School’s Master of Management, significantly reducing the total number of subjects required to obtain a Masters qualification.

Graduates holding the Governance Institute’s Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance, or the Graduate Diploma of Applied Risk Management and Corporate Governance, will be granted credit for up to eight subjects in La Trobe’s Master of Management. La Trobe will also use Governance Institute as a third-party provider for their own students.

Postgraduate students can elect to complete a Master of Management by taking four of the six subjects from Governance Institute’s Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance. Students will remain La Trobe students but attend the classes, use the course materials and sit assessments from Governance Institute.

“No business degree is complete without a thorough understanding of good governance,” Governance Institute CEO Steven Burrell said.

“We are very committed to ensuring this is the case. Our partnership with La Trobe University is one of several innovative partnerships we have entered into in the past year that provide benefits beyond advanced standing and we will continue to negotiate these agreements with appropriate organisations in 2016.

“Just as students of masters degrees need a good grounding in governance, our postgraduate students also need to have a thorough understanding of sound management practices, making agreements of this kind a critical part of their education mix,” Burrell said.

Dr Suzanne Young, La Trobe’s Head of the Department of Management and Marketing said “Studying corporate governance, students will be able to add value to their organisations through their understanding of corporate governance in a global context and of the role of the board of directors and management.”