The Australian Government has committed $42.8 million in programme funding over four years towards the Promotion of Excellence in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

The aim of the grants programme is to provide funding for academics and professional staff to investigate, discover, develop and implement innovations in learning and teaching.  

Grants facilitate scholarship and research into learning and teaching, and promote systemic change in the sector.  

Innovation and Development Grants and Strategic Priority Commissioned Grants will be accepted in Round One 2016 (due 2 November 2015).  Maximum budget $500,000 over two years. Only full applications (20 A4 pages) may be submitted.

Expressions of Interest, Seed grants and Extension Grants are not available in this round.

Outcomes of applications will be notified by June 2016 with projects commencing 1 August 2016. 

New priority areas for Strategic Priority commissioned grants

• The changing role of the academic
• Scaling up and ensuring quality of higher education in an era of massification
• Academic integrity and good practice in assessment

 Innovation and Development Grants - Priority Areas 2016

• Academic standards
• Assessing equivalence of qualifications and learning outcomes
• Assessment and promotion of student learning
• Designing learning for the future  (new)
• Employability skills for the future
• Improving institutional pathways across higher education
• Improving access to and outcomes in higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The contemporary PhD

For more details the Programme Information and Application Instructions are available here

Please contact Linda Butcher l.butcher@murdoch.edu.au or Denyse MacNish D.Macnish@murdoch.edu.au in CUTL to register your expression of interest in applying and for internal review submission dates.