Strategic Priorities

The University's Learning and Teaching Plan 2012-2014  sets out University-wide priorities in teaching and learning. It comprises three key objectives, along with implementation strategies, performance measures and indicators of success in the following areas:

Objective 1: Students - optimize student access, engagement, retention and success
Objective 2: Curriculum and Standards – implement a curriculum characterised by innovation, engagement and excellence
Objective 3: Quality - build staff capacity to engage in quality teaching

The University of Western Sydney takes account of significant developments in Australian higher education, including the need for institutional responsiveness in an increasingly competitive environment and the imperative to provide evidence of learning and teaching quality and standards in a new regulatory environment. The Plan affirms and extends our commitment to the dual priorities of widening student access to higher education, particularly in Greater Western Sydney, while simultaneously achieving excellence in all aspects of our academic program

Current Projects of the Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education)

The Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) – Structural Adjustment Fund in collaboration with the University of New England
Flexibility through blended learning (UWS distance education)

Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT)

• Academic workforce 2020: framing a national agenda for professionalising university teaching
  
• A sector-wide model for assuring final year subject and program achievement standards through inter-university moderation
• Measuring and reporting teaching quality
  
• Promoting Excellence Network - State-based Promoting Excellence Networks - NSW/ACT
  Lead Institution: The University of New South Wales     
  Network Coordinator: Professor Stephen Marshall
  The NSW/ACT Promoting Excellence Network comprises academics and divisional staff who are  responsible for enhancing learning and teaching within NSW / ACT tertiary institutions.
  

Australian Council for Education Research (ACER)
University Experience Survey

DEEWR Online Teaching Standards Framework (TSF) Project
Macquarie University Lead Institution

Higher Education Academy – UK (A literature synthesis)
Australian Student Engagement, Belonging, Retention & Success

EPIGEUM Limited – UK
Developer Group for Teaching Online Modules

 For further information regarding these Projects, please contact Natalie McLaughlin.