Information for Education students

The Faculty of Education at UTS is unique in Australia because it covers the professional development of educational practitioners across the broadest educational range from primary through to adult workplace teaching and learning. Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in both teacher education and adult education provide a rich program combining theory and practice with unique opportunities to discover more about learning in a variety of contexts – in specialist schools and community organisations, in corporations and in learning centres both in Australia and overseas. The Faculty is located on two campuses – City campus and Kuring-gai campus.

International links

Over the past 10 years the Faculty has built strong links internationally. Faculty staff are engaged in a variety of research and consulting activities overseas, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. The Faculty has been commissioned to offer teaching programs in Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, the South Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.

Increasing numbers of international students from Japan, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, Laos, Vietnam and China participate in Adult Education courses. The Faculty is currently running courses offshore in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and Japan.

The Master of Education in Adult Learning and Global Change (C04187), offered by the Faculty of Education, is a joint initiative with UTS, University of British Columbia, University of Western Cape and Linkoping University. Through this course, students study in a virtual global classroom working simultaneously with students based in Australia, Canada, South Africa and Sweden.

In Teacher Education courses, overseas practicums are offered in Thailand, Laos and China. The international major study available as part of the four-year Bachelor of Education offers students the opportunity to live and study in Sweden for one semester.

Recognition of prior learning policy

The Faculty of Education recognises formal and informal prior learning. For more information, consult the Faculty's policy on Recognition of prior learning, available online at:

Aligning staff and students' expectations and responsibilities

The Faculty's policy on Aligning staff and students expectations and responsibilities is available online at:

Assessment procedures

The Faculty of Education would like you to be aware of the assessment procedures which are followed in the preparation of results. This information is available online at:

NSW child protection legislation

Full details are provided in the General Information section.

Student support

The Faculty helps students develop their learning skills through services provided by the following support units.

Academic Liaison Officers

As part of the Faculty's equity plan, an Academic Liaison Officer is available at each campus to help students with physical, psychiatric and medical issues and other special needs. The Liaison Officers negotiate with lecturers on students' behalf for reasonable adjustments required to ensure equity of educational opportunity. This may include provision of signers, notetakers, extensions of time, alternative assessment tasks and special exam conditions.

Computing facilities for Education students

City campus

At Building CB10 on City campus, the Faculty of Education has two Digital Media Learning Spaces. These facilities incorporate leading edge concepts in educational design and technology.

Both computer facilities provide powerful iMac computers that have a suite of common up-to-date software installed for document production, web authoring, video and image editing, Internet and email access. There is the capability to work in a number of different languages including Asian languages. Data projection, printing and scanning facilities are also available for students.

A number of mini-studios with camera, lighting and playback facilities allow students to videotape and review presentations. Video-editing facilities are also available.

Faculty of Education students have free access to these facilities when classes are not in progress.

Building CB10 also contains a general access computing laboratory on the ground floor which is available to any enrolled student, 14 hours per day.

Kuring-gai campus

There are five computer laboratories for students' use at Kuring-gai campus. Four of these have Windows-based machines installed and offer an excellent range of software. The largest lab is the Macintosh lab in which many of the courses are conducted. It uses a large-screen display for demonstration purposes. This lab contains 30 new networked multimedia computers, a laser printer and a scanner. Students have free access to this lab and a large range of software, when classes are not in progress. There is also a collection of educational software and a digital camera. Students have access to the Internet and their own email account from all the computers in the facility.

Centres

OVAL Research (The Australian Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning)

The Centre undertakes collaborative research and development projects and consultancies with a key focus on productive learning at work. OVAL Research draws on a range of interdisciplinary approaches in order to understand the relationship between learning and work.

Centre for Language and Literacy

The Centre supports innovative research and curriculum developments, disseminates research outcomes, provides policy advice, consultancies and effective professional development in areas of language, literacy and numeracy.

Centre for Popular Education

The Centre fosters links among educators and activists nationally and internationally and conducts research and consultancy related to all aspects of adult education and training, youth work, community work and social activism.

Centre for Research and Education in the Arts

The Centre promotes excellence in research, education and practice in arts fields for UTS and the broader community and investigates the role of arts across the disciplines and in sustainable futures.

Short courses

Training and Development Services

Training and Development Services provides consultancy services and workplace training programs in the fields of training, human resource development and e-learning.

Academic research groups

The Faculty has established itself as one of the most productive and exciting centres for learning and research in a range of areas associated with adult and teacher education. It has the largest number of academic staff in any English-speaking university concerned with the education and training of adults. Adult and vocational learning has been identified as one of the first Key University Research strengths.

The Australian Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning (OVAL) Research is a Key University Research Centre undertaking collaborative research, development projects and consultancies focusing on productive learning at work.

The Changing Knowledges/Changing Identities Research Group (CKCI) comprises people within the Faculty who have an interest in researching effective responses to educational change. This interest encompasses both the process and product of educational change and involves empowering educational practitioners with an understanding of the change process so that they can promote change; and assists them to respond appropriately to trends and initiatives for change.

The research group Teacher Learning and Development (TLD) comprises people within the Faculty with research reputations in the area of teachers' learning and teachers' work. The focus of the group is to investigate the factors that facilitate and constrain best teaching practice and to develop strategies for supporting teachers in their quest for quality teaching and learning.

Contact details

Staff research interests and expertise

A full list of staff research interests and expertise is available online at: