Ten years forward, ten years back

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The Academic Workforce 2025 Project was commissioned over ten years ago by the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) to explore the changing nature of teaching and learning in Australian HE and make recommendations about professional recognition of teaching practice. The final report Advancing the Quality and Status of Teaching in Australian Higher Education: Ideas for enhanced professional recognition for teaching and teachers was published ten years ago, coinciding with the disestablishment of the OLT and the introduction of the Higher Education Standards Framework. The authors considered twelve propositions about how the sector might look in 2025; and proposed an Australian framework for recognition of professional practice in teaching and learning.

Re-reading this report today, we are seeing some of the changes they predicted unfolding; and we are still facing many of the same challenges in recognising and celebrating professional practice in teaching and learning. Please join us as we talk with some of the original authors about this important work and its relevance to us as leaders of T&L, ten years later.

Richard James, Chi Baik. Victoria Millar, Ryan Naylor, Emmaline Bexley, Gregor Kennedy, Kerri-Lee Krause, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, David Sadler and Sara Booth (2015) Advancing the Quality and Status of Teaching in Australian Higher Education: Ideas for enhanced professional recognition for teaching and teachers Office for Learning and teaching, Australian Government

Presenters

Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO is the lead for research excellence, translation, and impact, and research training at the University of South Australia.A graduate of the Universities of Tasmania and Oxford, Marnie has a global profile as a philosopher and as an historian. Her current work looks at how machines write histories, and the nature of AI as an historical discipline. In 2022 she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her contribution to higher education governance, leadership, and mentoring, and in 2023 she was the recipient of a George Parkin Award by the Rhodes Trust for distinguished contribution to the Rhodes community worldwide.

Professor Ryan Naylor, The University of Sydney Ryan Naylor is Professor of Higher Education and Academic Coordinator (Education Quality) in the Sydney School of Health Sciences. He is a Fulbright Scholar, and Principal Fellow, HEA. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Q1 journal, Student Success. His research focuses primarily on understanding and addressing barriers to success in higher education.

Professor Chi Baik, The University of Melbourne, Chi is a Professor of Higher Education in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Her research explores factors influencing the educational experiences and outcomes of students from diverse backgrounds in higher education. She has led major funded studies that have contributed to informing institutional policies and practices including national projects on the first year experience, international student engagement and student mental wellbeing. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary Australian Research Council Discovery project investigating alterable factors that impact student mental health and wellbeing in Australia’s universities.