Learning and Teaching Performance Fund 2008

The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF) was established in 2005 by the federal government with the aim of rewarding higher education providers which best demonstrate excellence in teaching and learning. $54 million was distributed through the LTPF in 2006 and this has been increasing with over $83 million to be distributed in 2008.

The fund requires each participating university to demonstrate its commitment to learning and teaching in order to be eligible for support from the fund. The requirements for eligibility are:

a current institutional learning and teaching plan or strategy;
evidence of systematic support for professional development in learning and teaching for sessional and full-time staff;
evidence of probation and promotion practices and policies which include effectiveness as a teacher;
evidence of systematic student evaluation of teaching and subjects that informs probation and promotion decisions for academic positions; and
evidence that student evaluations of subjects are publicly available.

Deakin University has a strong commitment to learning and teaching and satisfies these requirements as follows.

Learning and teaching plan
- Deakin University Strategic Plan 2003-2007 (full public access)
- Deakin University Operational Plan 2007
Professional development for staff
- Details of Deakin University's academic professional development (full public access)
- Graduate Certificate of Higher Education - Staff Appointed with Probationary Requirement - Operational Policy (full public access)
- Graduate Certificate of Higher Education - Staff Appointed with Probationary Requirement - Procedure (full public access)
- Human Resource Division Staff Development Program 2006 (53.6KB)
- Institute of Teaching and Learning Academic Staff Development Program 2006 (67.2KB)
Effectiveness as a teacher and student evaluations inform our promotion and probation decisions
- Probation (Academic staff) - Procedure (full public access)
- Academic Promotion - Operational Policy (full public access)
- Academic Promotion - Procedure (full public access)
- Attributes of Excellent Teaching - Operational Policy (full public access)
- Attributes of Excellent Teaching - Procedure (full public access)
- Evaluation of Teaching and Units - Operational Policy (full public access)
- Evaluation of Teaching and Units - Procedure (full public access)
Student evaluations
- Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units (SETU) (full public access to semester general reports)
- Evaluation of Teaching and Units - Operational Policy (full public access)
- Evaluation of Teaching and Units - Procedure (full public access)

The stage 1 requirements document (134KB) has been submitted to the Department of Education, Science and Training to demonstrate Deakin University eligibility for support from the fund.