Draft:Monash University Faculty of Education

The Monash University Faculty of Education is one of the largest and well-known centres of teacher education and educational research in Australia. . It offers degrees from undergraduate to PhD level, and was ranked as 18th in the world in the most recent Shanghai global ranking of academic subjects. The Faculty offers degrees from undergraduate to PhD level. Entrance into the undergraduate Bachelor of Education program is competitive, as it is one of the most popular education degrees among university applicants in Victoria.

History
The Faculty of Education was established in 1964 – six years after Monash was established as a predominantly technical university to complement existing tertiary education provision in the Melbourne area. While maintaining a focus on teacher education, the Faculty developed a strong academic reputation over the proceeding decades, prompting a 1987 international review of education research  by The Times Educational Supplement to conclude that ‘Monash University in Australia was the surprise rival to Stanford and Harvard’.

Key professors appointed during the 1970s included Peter Fensham (a founding researcher in the area of science and environmental education) Peter Musgrave (a leading name in the sociology of education) and Dick Selleck (a leading name in educational history)

The Faculty continues to be seen as a leading international centre of education research, with The Australian newspaper’s 2023 rankings naming Monash as the country’s ‘field leading’ institution in the areas of teaching & teacher education, special education, science & engineering education, and educational technology. The Faculty is now the largest university department of education in Australia, with over 7000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, along with over 150 academic staff

Location
The home campus for the Faculty of Education is Monash University Clayton Campus. The Faculty also has a strong teaching and research presence at Monash's Peninsula campus.

Notable alumni
The Monash Faculty of Education has produced a number of notable graduates, including:

Lorraine Elliott (Australian politician)

Gerard Vaughan (Australian politician)

Paul Edbrooke (Australian politician)

Louise Asher (Australian politician)

George Pell  (Catholic Cardinal)

Doug Bailey (footballer)

Anthony Fok (Singaporean tutor)

Kylie Sturgess (author and radio host)

Beau Miles (Australian YouTuber and outdoorsman)

Ian Henderson (news presenter)

Phil Leonard (Australian guitarist with The Fauves)

Jane Edmanson (Australian horticulturalist and television presenter)

Helen Wellings (Australian journalist)

Hazel Edwards (children’s author)

Rob Jolly (Australian politician)

Judith Smart (Australian social historian)

Chris Wardlaw (Australian long-distance runner)

Paul Jennings (children's author)

Tim Costello (Australian charity CEO)

Lachie Gill (Australian singer-songwriter)

Mel Schilling (Austalian reality TV psychologist)

Schools
The Faculty has three academic schools which are responsible for the creation and dissemination of disciplinary knowledge through individual and group research and through the development of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programs.


 * School of Curriculum, Teaching & Inclusive Education
 * School of Educational Psychology and Counselling
 * School of Education, Culture and Society