Awards, Grants and Recognition:

Learning and Teaching Awards

• OCTAL Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning
  The OCTAL Awards celebrate and reward teaching academics who have made an outstanding contribution to Teaching and Learning. Academics are nominated annually and complete an application process.
  
• NSW Quality Teaching Awards
  The Quality Teaching Awards recognise accomplished teaching practice through a rigorous process involving referees' reports, professional learning portfolios and workplace visits. This award is conducted by the Australian College of Educators (ACE).
  
• Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching
  The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, established by the Federal Government in 2004, is the new Australian peak body for teaching and learning. It offers a number of awards, grants and fellowships annually in support of a broad range of teaching achievements and initiatives. The Carrick Institute has 3 major awards:
• • Awards for Teaching Excellence (26 awards of $25,000 - these awards also include the Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Education and the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year);
  • Awards for Prohrams that Enhance Learning (14 awards of $25,000); and
  • Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (210 awards of $10,000).

Learning and Teaching Grants

• Educational Strategic Development Fund
  The University Education Committee awards funds to support strategic educational projects that might include action research, or the development and evaluation of an educational innovation. Grants are made annually.
  
• Carrick Institute Grants Scheme
  The Carrick Institute has an extensive grants program, offering several million dollars annually across a number of programs. Programs include the Priority Projects Program, the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program, and the Competitive Grants Program.
  
• Carrick Institute Discipline Based Initiatives Scheme
  The Discipline Based Initiatives Scheme will fund initiatives undertaken by cross-sector affiliations of discipline-based leaders. The intention is that they will engage with their related professional, industry and community stakeholders in identifying contemporary and future-oriented challenges that have relevance to the preparation of graduates of the discipline.

For more information on grants, including a full external grants calendar, please visit: http://cedir.uow.edu.au/CEDIR/services/fund_esdf/index.html

Recognition

Recognition is an important part of everyone's work. Good teaching is recohnised in many different ways. Awards, grants and fellowships are implicit recognition of a person's achievements, however some other key forms of recognition are listed below.

Promotion

• Academic Staff Promotion Policy and Procedures
  Staff are most often formally recognised through the UOW development and promotion process. Applicants for promotion can rank 4 of their major areas of their work in terms of their strengths and achievements.

Learning and Teaching Fellowships

• Teaching and Learning Scholars Program
  The Faculty Teaching and Learning Scholars have the broad responsibility of promoting good practice in teaching and learning within their Faculty and the broader community of the University of Wollongong. Each scholar provides leadership for a project, which addresses a need for supporting teaching improvement within the faculty.
  
• Carrick Fellowships
  The aim of the Carrick Fellowship Scheme is to promote and support excellence in learning and teaching in higher education by supporting individuals who have the educational expertise and leadership skills to undertake activities of research and development into a wide range of learning and teaching issues. Four senior fellowships and ten associate fellowships are available annually.

Last reviewed: 12 September, 2007