Its reputation alone may be reason enough to enrol, but there is some criticism of the CDC. Justin Davies at Emergination feels that graduates should receive a mark for the exam and assignment. ‘A very small per centage of the national graduates are awarded a distinction, however, there is no feedback at all,’ he observes. Concerns have also been raised about the course content. The Australian Financial Review’s Joanne Gray notes that when she took the course in 2017, a number of participants queried the focus on risk management in an environment that demanded innovation and growth. That sentiment is echoed in ‘Three Contradictions in Australian Director Education’, where the lawyer and theorist Peter Tunjic writes that Australian director education ‘should be grounded in leadership and value creation’ rather than in a ‘neo classical model of corporate governance that values managerialism and value protection above all else.’