Prizes and awards - Education

If you’re achieving excellent results in your studies, you may be eligible for a prize or award. Prizes and awards can provide financial and professional benefits in acknowledgment of your achievements.

Education Prizes

Laurie Brady Prize for Teaching Excellence

Laurie Brady was a long-serving member of The Faculty of Education and has devoted his working life to practising and promoting quality teaching. The Laurie Brady Prize for Teaching Excellence is for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education in Primary Education to recognize outstanding teaching ability in the school classroom. The award is based on a nomination for the award by the tertiary supervisor and professional experience reports and recipients receive $500

Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts Award for Achievement in Adult Education

The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts Award for Achievement in Adult Education prize is to reward those students making significant contributions in the community as adult educators and achieving high academic performance in their postgraduate academic studies. The recipient will be enrolled in or have completed: MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (C04305); or MEd Learning & Leadership degree (C04307). The award will be presided by a School of education Prizes committee and recipients will receive $1000.

Education Scholarships

Teacher Education scholarships with independent school partners

DR KIMBERLEY PRESSICK-KILBORN: In teacher education we have relationships with a number of Department of Education schools including hub schools.One of the partnerships that it's been really exciting to establish in the School of Education has been our partnership with Newington College and over the past two years we've established a scholarship program with Newington.

BENJAMIN BARRINGTON-HIGGS: It's been an extremely positive relationship with Newington and UTS. It's a really powerful way for a young teacher to develop but it's also a really fantastic way for a school to really understand and see the best of what UTS has to offer.

HUGH TOMKINS: The Newington scholarship is awarded to a student in the final year at UTS.

BENJAMIN BARRINGTON-HIGGS: That student will then work with us over the course of a year for about 10 hours a week. And during that time we give them a range of opportunities in different classrooms to see different teaching practices and to experience different parts of the educational environment.

DR KIMBERLEY PRESSICK-KILBORN: They've also then been asked to contribute to the extra-curricular life of the school in ways that they often don't have the chance to experience while they're undertaking a regular professional experience placement.

HUGH TOMKINS: As soon as I finished my final placement I was lucky enough to be offered some casual days teaching here and then from there I was asked if I'd like to interview for a learning enhancement internship to which I was very happily awarded so, pretty happy just to walk in and start teaching and then also very happy to be around teachers I already know.

BENJAMIN BARRINGTON-HIGGS: At the end of that time the UTS graduate has a really good idea of what good looks like in education and is well versed and well able to get themselves a really great job to start. a career.

Since 2018, UTS has partnered with a small number of independent schools, to offer scholarships to preservice teachers in the final year of their degree (primary and/or secondary). The scholarships are promoted to eligible students in Spring semester in the previous year, via email from the UTS Professional Experience office. Interested UTS students submit an application directly to a school of choice, and if short-listed, interviews are conducted by staff from that school. Scholarships are awarded based on a strong academic record, including success in previous professional experience placements. Scholarships are valued at $12,500 (approximately) and are effectively a paid internship, where the recipient works at the school one day each week as well as in an extracurricular activity (as negotiated). In addition (and unpaid), scholarship recipients complete their final year professional experience placements at the school where they hold a Teacher Education scholarship.

Teacher Education scholarships provide a unique opportunity for preservice teachers to work closely within a school and its wider community. For more information, please contact Dr Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn, Partners, Schools and Communities Coordinator in the School of International Studies and Education at UTS.

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