The teachers of tomorrow choose ECU’s School of Education. We’re leaders in education, producing graduates who are both classroom-ready and world-ready. Want to make a difference to young lives?
ECU graduates have dominated the WA Education Awards for many years, winning Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary Teacher of the Year, as well as Primary and Secondary Principals of the year.
Our Bachelor of Education degrees include a Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies, Bachelor of Primary Education and Bachelor of Secondary Education.
We also have the widest range of Secondary teaching specialisations of all Western Australian universities.
In the latest QILT survey, ECU was ranked Australia’s top public university for undergraduate teaching quality and overall education experience in the Teacher Education discipline.
QILT results are based on hundreds of thousands of surveys completed by students from the 37 public and 4 private universities across Australia. QILT is an annual independent Australian government survey.
In the 2021 Good Universities Guide, ECU graduates have given us a 5-star rating for:
The 5-star rating for teaching quality has now been achieved for 14 straight years.
Read more about the Good Universities Guide.
Your teaching career will get off to a great start at ECU. You'll benefit from:
ECU has been ranked number 9 in the world for Quality Education and is in the top 100 overall in the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact rankings.
The rankings show how the global higher education sector is working towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
ECU also ranked in the top 4% of universities surveyed for Gender Equality, and in the top 50 for Good Health and Wellbeing and Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Read more about the THE Impact Rankings
ECU has been ranked in the world's top 100 universities under 50 years old in the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Rankings.
Young universities are measured on their teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.
These are the same performance indicators as measured in the overall THE World University Rankings.
If you want to be part of the next generation of outstanding teachers and make a real difference to the lives of young people, our Teacher Education courses will start you on your journey.
Our experienced team are passionate about education and strive to find better ways to help you become a teacher – through pioneering research and outstanding community-based partnerships with schools.
Our courses are professionally accredited by the Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia. Early Childhood Studies courses have been approved by the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority.
The Bachelor of Education (Primary) course is also offered at our South West (Bunbury) Campus and the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) course will start there from 2021. Many of our courses allow you to study your teaching degree online.
Postgraduate study involves coursework or research, for example a Master of Education (by Coursework), a Master of Education (by Research), or a research-based PhD.
Our School of Education offers two postgraduate courses that sound similar, but are tailored to students seeking different outcomes.
If you have a degree in an area other than education, these 2-year courses enable you to become a teacher, including completing your studies on an internship in a Western Australian school.
If you're already in the education profession, this is a 1-year postgraduate degree that'll help you progress your career by expanding your knowledge in a specialist area and fine-tuning your leadership skills.
Alternatively, you can complete this course in 16 months, specialising in either Early Childhood Education or Leading Education, via our Accelerated Online mode.
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Experience Teacher Education at ECU.
Scholarships recognise those whose life journey may have been challenging, as well as students who've shown outstanding academic excellence and endeavour.
A scholarship can help you realise your ambitions by paying for fees, text books and living expenses.
In November 2018, nine of our students participated in a three-week US study tour, as guests of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.
Bucknell is one of the premiere liberal arts universities in the US, and is highly regarded for the quality of its music and music education programs.
While there, the students visited music education programs in 13 different schools, both in Pennsylvania, and New York City. Two groups from Bucknell have already visited ECU, and it's hoped that this can become part of a regular exchange program between the two institutions.
Overseas study tour opportunities like this are available to ECU students through our partnerships with educational institutions all over the world.
"ECU was the perfect place for me to study"
ECU Master of Education by Research
I travelled halfway around the world to investigate why some schools in my native Ghana were better than others – my research at ECU gave me the chance to find some answers.
