| March 2013

Computer Professional Education Program (CPEP)

A pathway to Certified Professional (CP) ... the global benchmark of professionalism for the ICT profession.

Professionally relevant learning

The Computer Professional Education Program is ACS’s post graduate IT qualification, which articulates into many MBA programs around the country.With a focus on business and IT, and designed around workplace learning, it has built a reputation as a truly practical yet highly rigorous program.

“The ACS’s Computer Professional Education Program is more than a postgraduate course of study. For many students, it’s a life and career-changing experience.”

Kim Wilkinson (MACS CP), CPEP Mentor

World class content

• PORTABLE Choose your own study environment

• MENTORED LEARNING Extend your learning journey with your own personal mentor

• INTERACTIVE Exchange ideas, experiences and knowledge in a supportive peer environment

• PRACTICAL Immediately apply your learnings through workplace based assignments

• AFFORDABLE World class content at an affordable price

Core studies

Students complete three core units...

• Risk Management: Professionalism & Compliance

• Business, Strategy and IT• New Technology Alignment

... and a Professional Practice subject

• a powerful way to document, analyse and reflect on learnings and their relevance to career

• Under the guidance of a personal mentor

“The Professional Practice forces you to reflect every week on what you have learnt, and how it impacts you, your work and your career. It made me rethink where I was and why I should start

looking towards my next career move.” - Colin Price, (MACS CP), CPEP Graduate

Electives

Students select one of nine electives:• Business Analysis• Business Process Improvement• Consultancy• Enterprise Architecture• Green Technology Strategies• Organisational Change Management• Information Security• IT Service Management• Project ManagementElectives can be taken as single units for those wishing to update their skills in one specific area.

Pathway to MBA

• Chifley Business School• Australian Catholic University• CQUniversity Australia• Charles Sturt University• Curtin University of Technology• Edith Cowen University • Griffith University • La Trobe University • Swinburne University of Technology• Victoria University• University of Adelaide

“The articulation agreement is of enormous benefit to us, as CPEP graduates have

advanced professional and academic skills,” - Luisa Signor, Swinburne University of

Technology

The details

• Three study periods per year: January-April; May-August; September-December

• Students can commence in any study period• Next Study Period 2, 2013: -Commences: 12 May -Finishes: 10 August -Enrolments close 5 May

• Study 8-10 hours/week over 13 weeks• Price per subject - ACS members $1500

Non Members $1800

Entry requirements

Students must have: A degree in ICT (or equivalent) 18 months work experience Current employment in the ICT

industry

Alternatively, students may enter through the Recognition of Prior Learning pathway.

Single subject enrolments are offered to anyone with a technology-oriented degree.

For further information ...

www.acs.org.au/cpeprogramcpeprogram@acs.org.au 1800 671 003

We have developed a world-class program that provides a motivating, challenging education program for people who want to put their learning to immediate use in the workplace.