Our Teaching and Learning Policy

QUT’s policies for Teaching and Learning are well described in the Manual of Policies and Procedures (MOPP), especially Chapter C.

The Faculty of Education’s Teaching and Learning Priorities (Faculty of Education Strategic Plan 2010-2014) closely align with the major agendas of the Faculty of Education 2010-2014 Strategic Plan. The Faculty Vision: Leading Innovative Partnerships recognises that educators in all sectors contribute to knowledge and skills developmentas well as discovery and innovation. The Faculty’s vision is to ‘lead learning partnerships in all aspects of learning, by being proactive educators in this fast-changing and uncertain context’. Key goals are to:

• Deliver high impact research and development.
• Promote lifelong learning.
• Build strategic collaborations with schools and community groups.
• Enact and promote socially just and inclusive learning environments.
• Develop a culture of transdisciplinary approaches to problem solving within and beyond the Faculty.
• Build intercultural competence and capacity for global citizenship.

These articulate with the key priorities identified in the QUT Blueprint 3 2011-2016, namely, to: http://www.qut.edu.au/about/university/pdf/qut-blueprint-2011-20110411.pdf

• Realign the composition of our student population.
• Measurably strengthen our teaching quality and learning outcomes.
• Build QUT's reputation as a selectively intensive research university.
• Develop a sustainable and high-quality workforce profile.
• Build further QUT's sense of community.
• Focus on the various dimensions of our sustainability - environmental, social and economic.