Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Ltd

1. Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Ltd2004–2008
2. Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd2008–2012

Launched by the Howard government in August 2004 as a company limited by guarantee under the Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future higher education reforms announced in 2003, with funding of about $22 million a year from 2006. It took over the Commonwealth's programs for promoting university teaching from the Department of Education, Science and Training, including the Australian Awards for University Teaching.

Legislation: None (company limited by guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001; funded under the Higher Education Support Act 2003)

1. 3 December 2007Moved from the Education, Science and Training portfolio to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.

Renamed the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd by the Rudd government in mid-2008 (about May), the same company continuing.

• Competitive grants for learning and teaching projects
• National teaching fellowships
• Australian Awards for University Teaching (Carrick Awards)
• Dissemination of good teaching practice across universities
• Discipline-based initiatives in higher education teaching

Last in the portfolio of Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

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