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The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund is the culmination of a review of higher education conducted in 2002, and subsequent sector-wide discussions and consultations undertaken by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) in 2004. The overall goals of the fund have emerged from a government document entitled Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future (Nelson, 2003).

Through the performance fund, the Government will provide rewards and incentives for excellence in learning and teaching, which they hope will promote the overall quality of the sector, and enable excellence in learning and teaching to be placed alongside delivery of research excellence, in terms of contribution to Australia's knowledge systems. The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund rewards those institutions that best demonstrate excellence in learning and teaching. To become eligible for the allocation of the funding, all universities were required to demonstrate their strong strategic commitment to learning and teaching through evidence of:

• a current institutional learning and teaching plan or strategy
• systematic support for professional development in learning and teaching for sessional and full-time academic staff
• probation and promotion practices and policies which include effectiveness as a teacher
• systematic student evaluation of teaching and subjects that inform probation and promotion decisions for academic positions, with strategies, practices, policies and student evaluation results made publicly available on an institution's website

Funding through the LTPF scheme, of around $54 million will become available in 2006 with funding, increasing to $82 million in 2007 and $109 million in 2008.

Dr Maree Gosper
e-Learning Coordinator
Email: maree.gosper@mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 9752

Dr Sharon Fraser
Director, Teaching and e-Learning
Email: sharon.fraser@mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8446

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