UTS: Education

Past news

Can you cook up a gourmet film career on a take-away budget?

2 February 2011

Leading Australian and International personalities in the film and sound industry will explore the possibilities of micro budget film making at a public symposium on Saturday 19 February at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Notice to Bachelor of Teaching students

21 January 2010

013008 Socio-cultural Context of Secondary Education will start delivery on Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 10am.

Gonski review: the government will struggle to change school funding

30 March 2012

When an Australian government is willing to risk losing an election over the way it funds our poorest, most disadvantaged schools, rather than our wealthy schools, only then will meaningful change be possible.

Incursion not excursion in the interactive age

14 March 2012

New-era smart boards have made the virtual world tour the new hands-on experience.

Study backs supported playgroups as a sound start towards literacy

18 November 2011

The availability of community-based supported playgroups can be an effective way of enhancing children's emergent literacies according to the results of a new study with Pacific communities in south-eastern Sydney.

Languages researchers from the University of Technology, Sydney have looked at the benefits of an organised community program that focuses on children's development of language, learning through play and their social interactions.

National study to improve patient safety in hospital handovers

15 November 2011

Improving how doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals hand over information about patients in hospitals is the focus of a new national research project aiming to reduce the rate of critical incidents caused by communication breakdowns and misunderstandings.

The ECCHo project – Effective Clinical Communication in Handover: improving patient safety, experiences and outcomes – is being launched in Adelaide on Monday 14 November by South Australian Minister for Health John Hill.

An education vocation

7 November 2011

A Thai native and experienced undergraduate teacher, Sirinut Sawatdeenarunat has studied in the United States, England, and now Australia on an Endeavour scholarship.

12th UTS Golden Eye Awards: winners revealed

13 October 2011

Over 300 people attended the screening and awards ceremony on 11 Oct at Chauvel cinemas in Paddington where the works of Media Arts and Production and Master of Animation students were recognised and celebrated.

Offensive language impresses in 3 Minute Thesis final

16 September 2011

Law student Elyse Methven triumphed at the UTS 3 Minute Thesis final last week with a presentation on offensive language crimes.

Study shows poor prognosis when medicos don't communicate

10 August 2011

Research reveals the impact of miscommunication in hospital emergency rooms.

Hope for substance-dependent mothers with young children

7 July 2011

An innovative research project designed to break the destructive cycle of substance dependence among women with young children was launched at UTS this week. Leaders of the research project say that a new approach is necessary to focus on integrating parent and child-sensitive practice with mainstream rehabilitation. This is due to the close association between substance dependence, mental illness, trauma, deprivation and family break-up through generations.

UTS FASS Student Wins Gold at World Championships

1 July 2011

Congratulations to UTS Elite Athlete Program Scholar, Sarah Peattie. Yesterday we received word that Sarah and her Aussie Team mates won gold at the World Touch Football Championships in Scotland.

Connecting classrooms

5 June 2011

Think ‘inclusive education’ and it’s unlikely theatre and technology spring to mind. That is unless you’re Rachel Perry. The casual academic has combined the two in new ways of teaching.

Group learning strategies increase productivity

10 May 2011

Large businesses could improve their productivity by implementing a peer group learning strategy according to the results of a recent UTS study in Indonesia. The study implemented workplace learning groups into the Indonesian Taxation Office to support tax officers during a period of organisational change.

Data reveals Sydney's culturally unbalanced schools

6 May 2011

Education policy has led to culturally unbalanced schools and potential social problems in the future according to a new paper by UTS researcher Dr Christina Ho. Analysing data from the My Schools website Dr Ho has contrasted the ethnicity within schools and the suburb in which they are located.

Indigenous doctoral student wins Fulbright Scholarship

16 March 2011

Angelina Hurley, Doctor of Creative Arts candidate at UTS wins the prestigious 2011 Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship.

ACCY presents Libby Gleeson AM

9 March 2011

The Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing (ACCY) is proud to host Libby Gleeson AM as a Writer-in-Residence.

ELT, Gender and International Development

6 March 2011

If we think of East Timor, images come perhaps of Whitlam, independence, the Balibo journalists, oil, poverty, religion. This book offers fresh pictures of Timor, and it does so by looking at how English is taught as part of an Australian ‘aid’ project.

Human rights: missing in action in international education debate

11 February 2011

Strategies to head off a crisis in Australia's international education industry have so far left out broader social policies to reduce racism and ensure wider human rights according to a paper by UTS researchers.

Opening minds through literature

16 December 2010

With the goal of making school relevant to all children, the Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing is working on the notion of literacy – and how it can nurture the imagination, encourage respect and inspire dreams.

Mamma Africa

10 December 2010

In 1991, Irene Gleeson A0 left her life in Narrabeen for war-torn Uganda. Twenty years on, she’s conquered malaria, typhoid, depression and armed rebels to build a community in Kitgum that educates and cares for more than 10,000 kids.

People power

4 November 2010

Education lecturer, Sue O'Neill winner of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for her teaching, donates money to a Tanzanian scool to secure electricity for third-world classroom.

FASS ARC successes

28 October 2010

ARC success brings significant prestige to the University and the Faculty.

Building Literate Nations Inaugural Forum: a call to action for 'Deep Literacy'

25 October 2010

The Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing presented the Building Literate Nations: Literate Australia Inaugural forum at UTS.

Postgraduate applications now open for Autumn 2011

29 September 2010

Our graduate programs are offered across a range of professional and creative areas in the media, communication and information fields.

Secondary Teaching Scholarships

17 August 2010

If you’re partway through your Maths, Science, English degree and considering your career options, a NSW Department of Education and Training Teacher Education Scholarship will help you turn your degree into a challenging and rewarding career as a NSW public school teacher.

Samoa: The Journey

6 August 2010

Each year Primary Education students have the option to do an international professional experience trip to Samoa, China or Thailand. Michael Prants tells his story of the 2010 trip to Samoa.

Adult Literacy and Numeracy Scholarships

22 July 2010

Bachelor of Education in Adult Education students Claire Dodds-Eden and Liza Clews have been awarded the new DEEWR Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practitioner Scholarships.

Sue Hood’s new book explains the evaluative strategies of academic writers

1 June 2010

Appraising Research: Evaluation in Academic Writing makes an important new contribution to the understanding of academic writing in English.

Professor Rosemary Johnston awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust

23 April 2010

Professor Rosemary Johnston is one of four CIs in an international consortium, led by the University of Newcastle on Tyne (UK), that has been awarded a substantial grant by the Leverhulme Trust.

Learn or earn

7 April 2010

The Federal Government’s plan to keep students in school longer may increase the number of people with a Year 12 or equivalent qualification, but Kitty te Riele believes more innovative education reform models are needed to improve student outcomes.

New philosophy to make up for the syntax of the past

31 March 2010

The problem is huge: low levels of literacy among up to half of Australians. The solution: a new national school curriculum, literacy for the 21st century and, gasp, grammar.

Alastair Pennycook's new book 'Language as a local practice'

10 March 2010

Language as a Local Practice, by Alastair Pennycook, addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity.

UTS Graduate selected in 2010 Australian Winter Olympic Team

8 January 2010

Congratulations to 2008 UTS Sports Scholar (Luge), Hannah Campbell-Pegg for being selected in the 2010 Australian Winter Olympics team

Education lecturer wins UTS Learning and Teaching Award

26 November 2009

The UTS Learning and Teaching Awards recognise the importance of learning and teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

'School of thought' - interview with Rosemary Johnston

16 October 2009

If today's children are tomorrow's leaders, then they should be well-skilled in the world of literacy. Head of Education, Professor Rosemary Ross Johnston, will make sure of this with the establishment of the UTS Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing, to be launched this month by Ms Thérèse Rein.

Overseas prac trip to Samoa

18 September 2009

Students from the UTS Primary Education course tested their skills by venturing to the south pacific islands of Samoa for an international prac trip. The students taught in Falefitu, Vaivase & Tanugamanono Primary Schools under the direction of local teachers and tertiary supervisors. UTS conduct an optional international prac trip to Samoa, China or Thailand yearly as part of the professional experience subjects in 2nd or 3rd year.