| UOW Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton, with a copy of the 2009... UOW Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton, with a copy of the 2009 Good Universities Guide listing the University’s five-star successes |
Triumph in Good Universities Guide -- and now No. 1 for learning and teaching citations
5 Aug 2008 | Bernie Goldie
The University of Wollongong has continued its five-star winning ways in the 2009 Good Universities Guide just released – and now news that UOW has topped the country for learning and teaching citations.
UOW demonstrated once again its pre-eminent position in the Australian university sector as it stands alongside seven of the so-called metropolitan-based ‘Group of Eight’ universities to record the highest possible five-star rating as a research-intensive university, according to the 2009 Good Universities Guide.
The official release of the guide last night reaffirmed not only UOW’s five-star standing status for “research intensivity” but also its ongoing five star achievements for:
- “The educational experience (generic skills)”
- “The educational experience (graduate satisfaction)”
- “Graduate starting salary”
- “Getting a Job” and
- “Positive Graduate Outcomes”
Under the Guide’s ranking system, only the top 20 per cent of universities can be awarded a five-star rating in any one category. UOW has not dropped any of its five-star rankings it achieved when the 2008 Guide was released.
The guide’s authors highlighted the fact that UOW had scored consistently well across many major indicators and said that “we had great success for Graduate Starting Salaries and Employment Prospects”.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, Professor Gerard Sutton, said it was extremely pleasing to see UOW again retain all its five-star successes in categories which were key indicators of a university performing at a very high level.
“Australian and overseas students scrutinising this guide will see just how UOW is among the elite research and teaching universities in Australia,” he said.
The Good Universities Guide draws its information from the Federal Government’s Department of Education, Science and Training as well as the results of the national Graduate Destination Surveys.
Meanwhile, the Australian Learning and Teaching Council has just announced its “Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning “ – with UOW listed as number one university in the country.
From a total of 210 awards nationally, UOW was the only university to receive the maximum 10 citations that can be awarded. Only five institutions gained eight or more citations.
Over the three years that the program has been running, UOW has gained a total of 28 citations from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly called the Carrick Institute) which is also higher than any other university in Australia.
Professor Sutton described it as a fabulous result especially coming hot on the heels of the University’s five-star successes in the 2009 Good Universities Guide.
The citations will be presented to the 210 academics and support staff at Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) ceremonies to be held in different states of Australia this week.
The ALTC Executive Director, Professor Richard Johnstone, said that more than $2 million will be presented to the citation winners with each recipient receiving $10,000.
Professor Sutton said it was noteworthy to see that the citations were spread across a number of faculties at UOW.
The following are the successful 10 citations awarded to UOW:
- Ms Alisa Percy, Mr Paul Moore, Ms Bronwyn James, Dr Ruth Walker and Dr Jan Skillen -- For sustained work to collaboratively integrate contextualised academic integrity into curricula;
- Dr Holly Tootell and Ms Annette Meldrum -- For developing leadership through a sustained and responsive team-based approach to curriculum development in a core ICT subject, targeting assessment and student engagement;
- Dr Margaret Wallace -- For creating stepping stones to evidence-based practice in nursing by drawing teaching teams into the ongoing process of curriculum development;
- Dr Michael Clements and Dr Matthew Pepper -- For fostering cumulative student engagement with core concepts in supply chain management through games, role-play scenarios and industry-focused curriculum design;
- Associate Professor Garry Hoban -- For developing innovative teaching approaches to engage preservice primary teachers and school students in new ways of learning science, especially through "slowmation" (student generated animations);
- Associate Professor John McQuilton -- For challenging student perceptions through inspirational learning journeys in history, and driving the development of key learning and teaching policies;
- Associate Professor Narottam Bhindi -- For scholarly contribution to the promotion and development of educational leadership through teaching, research, conference leadership, mentoring and network building across educational sectors;
- Associate Professor Rebecca Albury -- For enabling university recognition of diversity in teaching excellence and guiding cross-disciplinary teams to design a flexible arts curriculum;
- Professor Sandra Wills -- For strategic leadership to ensure learning technologies promote active, collaborative and global student learning;
- Professor Stephen Tanner and Mr Marcus O'Donnell -- For the engagement of media professionals and local community in ongoing review, implementation and refinement of a responsive and creative curriculum for journalism students
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