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Welcome from the Dean

The innovative Doctor of Education course at UNE offers established professional educators the chance to acquire an advanced qualification in the education field. Here is the chance for you to develop rigorous, advanced professional competencies in educational leadership and the opportunity to become accredited in a research degree. You have the opportunity to interact during residential schools with experts in other fields of education and position yourself strategically as an innovative and highly qualified leader in the education area.
UNE's Doctor of Education is increasingly being recognised in Australia and internationally as a path to future development and leadership for all education managers who are seeking a doctoral qualification.

Your Doctorate of Education

Message from the EdD Coordinator

2009 will be the sixteenth year of the EdD Program at UNE. Currently there are 30 students in the program. Perhaps you will join them and we encourage you to contact us informally should you require any further information. Our EdD Program caters for busy professionals and is squarely linked into the workplace as the site for professional research.

The "new 2002 EdD at UNE" (which has been modified from the 1994 structure), is radically different from the previous disciplinary coursework plus dissertation model of the past. Course work will be profession/workplace-based, leading to a portfolio of research projects. The portfolio will have a "linking paper" and portfolio inclusions may be written for a variety of audiences. The program is very much designed to allow professionals to tailor both the coursework units and the research portfolio to their particular needs and interests.

We believe that our Doctor of Education Program is distinctively professional in the following ways:

Units are designed to maximise the link between theory and practice.
The program favours the production of a portfolio (rather than a thesis). This portfolio is envisaged as a series of workplace related research studies connected by a linking paper.
We encourage research that is applied. Issues relating to your interest and which are derived from practical experience in your workplace are central to the development of the research proposal. We offer a structured program of 25 per cent course work and 75 per cent research that provides an opportunity to further develop a scholarly, research foundation to your professional practice.

Studying at the University of New England is a special experience, situated as we are in the New England countryside. There is no city hurly burly here but we do have excellent facilities. We have a safe campus. Many staff are housed in the purpose built Education Building into which we moved in February 1994. Whether it is in the Colleges, at the Bistro or here in the Education Building, you will be welcome at UNE.