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Calling all former teaching students: celebrate with RMIT!
RMIT University will next month celebrate 50 years of educating teachers in
Victoria with a reunion for graduates, friends and former staff.
Teaching graduates from RMIT’s predecessor institutions and the RMIT School of
Education are warmly invited to the celebrations, which will culminate with a dinner
on Monday, 19 October.
Professor Annette Gough, Head of the School of Education, said teacher
education, like teaching in schools, had changed considerably in the past five
decades.
“Staff no longer walk around in suits or black academic gowns, students no longer
sit in rows in desks with ink wells and classrooms rarely have chalkboards,”
Professor Gough said.
The first teaching students were enrolled in 1959 at one of RMIT’s predecessor
institutions, Coburg Teachers’ College.
The Coburg Teachers’ College was renamed the State College of Victoria at
Coburg (1973-1981), then later incorporated into the Phillip Institute of Technology
(1982-1991). The Phillip Institute was amalgamated into RMIT in 1992.
The reunion dinner for graduates from the predecessor institutions and RMIT will
feature former students speaking about their experiences and the launch of the
book, Teacher Journeys.
RMIT will also mark the 50-year milestone with an international education seminar,
“Reflections, Challenges and New Directions for Teacher Education”.
The one-day seminar on 19 October will include a keynote address from leading
educationalist, Dr Ann Lieberman of Stanford University.
For more information about the reunion and seminar:
What: 50-year Celebration and Reunion Dinner for RMIT Education graduates,
friends and former staff
When: Monday, 19 October, 7pm
Where: RMIT Storey Hall, 336 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Cost: $120
Contact: (03) 9925 7914 or soereception@rmit.edu.au
For interviews or comment: RMIT University, Head of School of Education,
Professor Annette Gough, (03) 9925 6580 or 0400 816 129.
18 September, 2009
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