Message from the Dean

Welcome to the Faculty of Education at UTS. The Faculty offers courses that prepare students for professional practice in a range of educational contexts: primary and secondary teaching, vocational education, language, literacy and numeracy education, Aboriginal education and human resource development. The Faculty is also active in researching learning and change, which underpins the teaching and learning in its courses.

The Faculty's adult education area is one of the largest in the world, with many academics involved in a variety of fields. The Faculty offers a Bachelor of Education in Adult Education and a range of Graduate Diplomas in such fields as Vocational and Workplace Learning, Literacy and Numeracy Education, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Also offered is the innovative Bachelor of Arts in Organisational Learning degree, the graduates of which meet the increasing need for professionals who can manage the learning and change process in organisations; this course includes subjects from both the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Business.

The Faculty's teacher education courses include the Bachelor of Education in Primary Education, which has a strong practice orientation with practicum teaching in every semester of every year. There is also the graduate-entry secondary teaching course: the Bachelor of Teaching in Secondary Education, with specialisations in languages, English, mathematics, personal development, health and physical education, science, technology and applied studies, visual arts, business studies and a number of mixed specialisations – the BTeach is an accelerated program enabling graduate students to complete the course in one year of study.

The Faculty's Masters courses include the Master of Education, with majors in Adult Education and Indigenous Studies and Master of Arts courses in e-Learning, TESOL, Applied Linguistics, and Music Therapy. These courses have course-specific core and elective subjects as well as two faculty core subjects: Learning and Change, and Research Perspectives.

The Faculty's distinctive Centre for Research Learning and Change includes two research clusters: Changing Practices and Designs for Learning. The focus of the Changing Practices cluster is researching practice as it occurs in many different settings; in work and the professions, in education, and in social and cultural settings; and the ways in which practice is changing. The focus of the Designs for Learning cluster is the mediation of learning; the designs, interactions and interventions, and the different contexts, that shape learning. The Faculty also has approximately 180 research students in the Master of Education (Honours), Doctor of Education or Doctor of Philosophy research degrees.

In addition, the Faculty runs short courses for industry professionals through the Training and Development Services (TDS) unit. These courses include Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and the Diploma of Business (Frontline Management).

The Faculty is situated on two sites: adult, vocational and language and literacy education, Master's and TDS courses are taught at City campus in the central area of the city, and school teacher education and music therapy on the North Shore at UTS's Kuring-gai campus, set at the edge of a national park.

The Faculty is distinguished by its global operations and its commitment to internationalism. The Faculty has a history of running offshore courses and projects in a variety of locations including Laos, Mexico, Japan, Oman, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Vietnam and mainland China. In addition, teaching experience practicums in the primary course are offered in China, Samoa and Thailand.

The Faculty also draws on expertise from other areas of UTS in its combined degrees and continues to explore further ways for students to benefit from the richness and diversity UTS offers. With the Institute for International Studies, the Faculty offers three combined degrees: Bachelor of Education Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Bachelor of Education in Adult Education Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Bachelor of Arts in Organisational Learning and in International Studies.

The Faculty is known for its flexibility in modes of delivery and many of the Master's courses are now available through distance mode and other courses through a blend of distance, block and weekly attendance. Web-based conferencing tools through UTSOnline support all the distance courses and subjects.

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