- National award winners to meet others within their own discipline category
- Previously unsuccessful Carrick Award nominees and Institutional award winners to find out about taking their applications to the next step
- New and experienced teachers to engage with award winners and discuss their teaching
- Program managers and leaders wishing to increase their understanding of the different programs running across the country and
- Institutional Contact Officers and any other staff responsible for developing applications to exchange strategies, systems and processes
About the Carrick Institute
The Carrick Institute was launched in August 2004 as The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
During a long and distinguished career, Sir John Carrick KCMG served as the Commonwealth Minister for Education between 1975 and 1979. His important contributions to education have been widely recognised, including by the recent award of a Centenary Medal for outstanding leadership and service to the Australian community.
Mission Statement
To promote and advance learning and teaching in Australian higher education.
Objectives
The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education will:- Promote and support strategic change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching, including curriculum development and assessment;
- Raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of teaching in higher education institutions and in the general community;
- Foster and acknowledge excellent teaching in higher education;
- Develop effective mechanisms for the identification, development, dissemination and embedding of good individual and institutional practice in learning and teaching in Australian higher education;
- Develop and support reciprocal national and international arrangements for the purpose of sharing and benchmarking learning and teaching processes; and
- Identify learning and teaching issues that impact on the Australian higher education system and facilitate national approaches to address these and other emerging issues.
About RMIT
RMIT was founded in 1887 as a technical institute dedicated to providing professional and vocational education to the local community. From these modest beginnings we have grown to be the largest dual-sector (higher education and vocational educational and training) provider in Australia, with close to 60,000 students enrolled in our programs. Throughout our 120-year history, our aims have remained essentially the same: to ‘create and disseminate knowledge to meet the needs of industry and the community and foster in students the skills and passion to contribute to and engage with the world’ RMIT’s Learning and Teaching Strategy 2007-2010 celebrates this heritage and re-affirms the university’s commitment to its fundamental mission.
