AUSTRALIAN LEARNING AND TEACHING COUNCIL
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What's New?
- What's happening in Assessment? November 2008
- The GREEN Report: The development of leadership capacity in higher education
- The GREEN Resource: The development of leadership capacity in higher education
- The academic's and policy-maker's guides to the teaching-research nexus
- Assessing group work in media and communications
- Review of the ALTC Leadership Program 2006-2008
- Review of the ALTC Leadership Program 2006-2008 - ALTC Response
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council promotes excellence in higher education by recognising, rewarding and supporting teachers and professional staff through a suite of award, fellowship and grant schemes. We aim to enhance the student learning experience by supporting quality teaching and practice.
Teaching focus welcome
The most far-reaching review of Australian higher education in two decades has strongly reinforced the role of teaching in universities and the strategies adopted by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC).
Chair of the ALTC Board, Emeritus Professor John Hay welcomed the Bradley Review focus on improving teaching quality and its endorsement of the work of the ALTC.
"Understanding of the importance of quality teaching has gained considerable momentum over the last few years and the ALTC has played a crucial role in bringing this about," Professor Hay said.
"I am delighted that the increasing emphasis on the fundamental importance of teaching that has occurred has been so robustly supported by this review."
Teaching and learning are highlighted throughout the final report from the Bradley Review which makes several specific references to the ALTC.
In the "Findings" section, the panel states that the "ALTC should continue to play a significant role in the further improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. There is no need for any major change to its mode of operation or focus."
Professor Hay said this strong support was most welcome and indeed timely as it closely follows an independent evaluation that endorsed the direction the ALTC is taking.
"As both the Bradley Review and our evaluation reveal, the ALTC has done a great deal to raise the profile of learning and teaching in Australia."
Read the ALTC evaluation
Review of the ALTC Leadership Program 2006-2008
Change of Name
This website is being progressively updated following the change of name from the Carrick Institute to the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) in early May 2008. Please note that the ALTC is not related in any way to the Carrick Education Group.