For over a century, the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne has shaped the future of education for the benefit of our society. The Faculty is home to Australia’s leading education researchers and educators. Ranked 13 in the world and 1st in Australia for Education, our community includes approximately 4,000 graduate coursework students, 200 graduate researchers, over 350 academic and professional staff and thousands of alumni around the world. The Faculty of Education offers a platform to address today’s grand challenges – our experts are ambitious and creative; our students are change-leaders in the making; and our partnerships with educators, government and industry are close and mutually beneficial.
The Faculty of Education offers high quality initial teacher education and professional and continuing education courses at the graduate level. In the Master of Teaching, we apply a unique clinical model of education, bringing together theory and practice in a way that gives powerful insights into children and young people and how they learn. The Master of Education is cutting edge and offers a broader range of specialisations than any other Master of Education program in Australia. In addition, the faculty offers a range of innovative professional development and higher degree research courses and offers highly regarded undergraduate subjects as part of the University of Melbourne Breadth program.
Innovative custom education programs are also a key constituent of the faculty’s work. The Faculty works with government, education departments and non-profit organisations to develop bespoke educational programs to meet their needs.
The Faculty of Education is a hub of high impact research. Home to a number of internationally recognised experts, we are at the cutting edge of teaching and research in our field. The faculty houses a number of significant large scale research projects. The faculty is immensely proud to be home to Ngarrngga, a significant and large-scale nation-building project led by First Nations educators, as well as dedicated Indigenous-focused programs such as the Master of Social Change Leadership which is mobilised through the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE).
We work closely with local, national and international partners on a wide range of projects across education and related disciplines. Our academics have developed and pioneered remarkable research-based initiatives such as the Mental Health in Primary Schools project which continues to support schools across Victoria to build their capability in managing the mental health and wellbeing of students. The Faculty of Education is deeply committed to the work of leading education debates and improving educational outcomes for all students, with programs of research activities and teaching and learning built on a platform of engagement.