Teaching and learning

We are committed to high quality student centred teaching and learning experiences. We are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and skills appropriate to specific Business disciplines and the development of graduate capabilities that reflect industry requirements in an international environment where graduate employment and professional credibility are paramount.

Key values

• Assurance of learning goals detailing intended learning outcomes in all programs, linked to specific graduate capabilities
• Diversity of staff and students
• Internationalisation of programs, students and staff
• Equity of opportunity
• Blended learning
• Work integrated learning
• Professional, business and industry links and certifications
• Technological excellence
• Life long learning.

We offer numerous outstanding business courses to a diverse group of students through different learning modes at various locations. Four Schools in specific discipline areas offer academic rigour and resource our quality programs.

We strive to ensure its courses articulate as fully as possible from undergraduate to postgraduate levels encouraging continuous professional development and knowledge building.

From quality assurance to graduate employment

Our course quality assurance is a continuous process, incorporating regular monitoring, review, and benchmarking for valuable improvements in all courses. Individual course reports prompt an annual check of each course's performance, drawing upon quality, viability and outcomes data.

Reporting for our courses is a critical and diagnostic analysis focusing on significant trends and issues, actions taken and outcomes. The course coordinators or Directors of Study lead the development of the reports for submission to the Faculty Academic Board (FAB) through the Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning and the Assistant Dean Research and Development.

Our Quality Assurance and Course Reporting process guarantees excellence throughout our course design and delivery to ensure accreditation with international bodies and industry groups. Accreditation is only achieved, and sustained, through a rigorous process of improvement, self-evaluation and assessment. We are Australia's first business school to hold all three international accreditations - AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, a recognition that our courses are quality assured and among the best in the world. This makes our graduates more employable, both in Australia and overseas.

Employers of our graduates tell us that graduates from our courses are more employable than graduates from any other university because of their strong practical skills in a work environment; their maturity and broader understandings of commercial realities; strong communication skills; and highly advanced technical skills.

Teaching excellence

We are delighted that two of our staff have been awarded ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2010. It is both a wonderful recognition of their individual excellence and a confirmation of the QUT Business School's strength in teaching and learning.

We support excellence in teaching through a range of programs designed to resource the learning and teaching process including support for academics in developing critical, reflective and scholarly approaches to their teaching; quality improvement prospects including student surveys and course quality assurance processes. We maintain the view that scholars of teaching offer excellence in teaching, therefore resources research into teaching and learning to further the advancement of excellence in the varied disciplines taught within Business. Excellence in learning and teaching is also rewarded through grants and awards. We celebrate our winning teachers.