Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Rules Variation Summary for 2025
Summary of Changes for 2025 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Primary) students |
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| No changes for 2025 | Nil |
Rules Variation Summary for 2024
Summary of Changes for 2024 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Primary) students |
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Overview Note Removed - Removal of the word Internship relating to placement requirements, graduate placement is not a formal Internship. Program of Study Listed Units:
Admission Notes have been added to the Requirements for all Applicants section to clarify that students can have a maximum of two Science Teaching Areas in the MTCHSC. Exit Pathways Extra note relating to the absence of an exit or a candidate being unable to complete exit requirements has been added as per all other ITE degrees. | Note changes to overview, program of study and exit pathways. |
Rules Variation Summary for 2023
Summary of Changes for 2023 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Primary) students |
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Overview: Added content to the overview indicating that this course is undergoing routine re-accreditation and is subject to change. Additionally, moved employment information to professional Recognition as per all other ITE awards. Professional Recognition: Updated content to reflect all ITE courses in Education, including teacher registration information with NESA and employment body information. Career Opportunities: Added the Teaching Areas UNE offers as prospective students often consider Universities based off of the Teaching Areas they can offer. UNE has a number of unique offerings to our competitors, such as Agriculture. Professional Recognition: Updated content to reflect all ITE courses in Education, including teacher registration information with NESA and employment body information. Course Aim: the course aim has been updated to remove the graduate attributes (duplicated in another section) and align with accreditation. Program of Study: Descriptors amended to provide clearer instructions. Progress and Conduct: Amendments have been made to the Progress and Conduct clauses as per documentation supplied to NESA for re-accreditation which is related to completing LANTITE and GTPA (mandatory requirements) Exit Pathways: Exit pathways have been updated to reflect all opportunities and to clarify the re-admission process required if a student does exit. | Note changes to overview, offering changes, course aim, program of study, progress and conduct and exit pathways |
Rules Variation Summary for 2022
Summary of Changes for 2022 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Program of Study The requirement to complete the LANTITE and GTPA which is common across all ITE awards, regardless of Undergraduate or Graduate level, was missing from the Master of Teaching (Secondary) Program of Study. This requirement does appear elsewhere but for consistency purposes across all ITE awards these requirements have been added to the Program of Study. Admission Rules - Discipline background requirements NESA published slightly amended Subject Content Knowledge requirements which providers utlise to assess an applicant for meeting Discipline background requirements. The wording has now been adjusted. Admission Rules - Addition of award restriction Following cases of students attempting and being permitted to undertake the Master of Teaching (Primary) upon completion of the Master of Teaching (Secondary) or vice versa, an Admission rule restriction has been added. The appropriate award for an applicant to undertake once they obtain an ITE qualifcation is the Bachelor of Education (In-Service Conversion). Undertaking the alternative Master of Teaching Award is not appropriate as it structure for ITE students, not graduates. Admission Rules - Transferring students Following an increase in student being admitted to ITE awards who have a GPA from their latest course attempt that is not equivalent to either the GPA or ATAR conversion of their GPA a clarification of admission rules relating to students transferring from one award to another has been added. This clarification of the admission requirements, will avoid any issues of students being able to use their initial method of application to UNE as the basis for admission, when their latest studies are not meeting the admission requirements. Admission - GPA Increase Following recommendation 2.2 of the Master of Teaching Course Review to increase the GPA admission requirement from 3.5 to 4.0, this has been actioned in the amendment. This will now be commensurate with our competitors. Admission Rules - Curriculum Units Progression Team and Admissions team have provided feedback indicating that some students and staff experience difficulty in interpreting the appropriate Curriculum Units and combinations dependent on the candidate. In an attempt to clarify wording has been simplified and rationalised within the Admission Rules. Reference to TPA changed to GTPA Changes have been made throughout the course where references were made to the Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) which has been changed to the Graduate Teaching Performance Assessment in 2021. Progression Requirements & Exit Pathways Students unable to pass the mandatory requirements of LANTITE clauses have been added to all ITE awards for 2021 to indicate that students unable to pass LANTITE will be transferred to a non-teaching award. This is commensurate with the GTPA requirement which is already present. | Note changes to transfer rules Note changes to progression requirements |
Rules Variation Summary for 2021
Summary of Changes for 2021 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Program of Study Listed Units
| Note unit change |
Rules Variation Summary for 2020
Summary of Changes for 2020 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Course Rules: Additional Teaching Area/s:
Course Structure:
Program of Study Group 1 Compulsory Teaching Units:
Group 2 – Curriculum Units:
Group 3 – Listed Elective Teaching Units:
| Note unit title changes, additions and deletions. Candidates under pre-2020 rules may complete under their current rules or apply to transfer to the new rules. Candidates under pre-2020 rules:
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Rules Variation Summary for 2019
Summary of Changes for 2019 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Course Overview: removal of reference to Aboriginal Studies and Visual Arts which are no longer offered in the course from 2019. Course Rules: Additional Teaching Area/s: section: reference to Visual Arts removed. Curriculum Specific Guidelines: in addition to slight adjustment in the content of some of these areas major changes to this section are as follows:
Computing Technology Information Systems has been renamed Information Processes and Technology and Program of Study - changes as follows: Group 1 Compulsory Teaching Units:
Group 2 – Curriculum Units:
Group 3 – Listed Elective Teaching Units:
| Note unit title changes, additions and deletions. Candidates under pre-2019 rules may complete under their current rules or apply to transfer to the new rules. Candidates under pre-2019 rules may take electives added. For students under previous rules it is noted that the Visual Arts (EDAE350, 351, 352 and 353) and Aboriginal Studies (EDSS328) curriculum units are still being offered in 2019 for teach out purposes. Students under 2013-2015 rules who have not completed EDUC404 (which is now deleted in 2019) should instead study EDUC540, the prerequisites of EDUC540 in 2019 have been expanded to accommodate this change. |
Rules Variation Summary for 2018
Summary of Changes for 2018 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Course Rules: Admission Rules have been amended to include an additional requirement for applicants to complete a personal statement addressing Non-Academic capabilities (this applies to all Initial Teacher Education degree from 2018 i.e is applicable from UNE’s Trimester 1, 2018) and is required in addition to the traditional academic measures under the AITSL Admission Standard 4.2. Additional Requirements section has been amendment to:
Professional Placement rules have had amendments including a new sentence that: Students who are required to undertake professional experience placement must read, understand and adhere to the Professional Experience Policy of the School of Education.
Progress and Conduct and Period of Candidature sections have both been amended to add reference to:
Program of Study: Group 1 Compulsory Teaching Units:
Group 2 Curriculum Units:
Group 3 Listed Elective Teaching Units:
Course Aims have been amended to align with other Education courses at UNE. No changes were made to the Learning Outcomes of the course. All 2018 course plans have been updated to reflect change to units contained in the program of study. | Note unit title changes, additions and deletions. The School has contacted currently enrolled students in the MTeach(Sec) to advise of the changes for 2018 and the retrospective nature of the Teaching Performance Assessment. Students under pre-2018 rules may complete under their current rules, although they will be required to complete a Teaching Performance Assessment in their final Professional Experience Placement as per requirements of the accrediting body NESA. Students under 2016 and 2017 rules – who still have PREX560 in their program of study (which has been removed in the 2018 rules) – will find the assessment for that unit will be amended from 2018 to include the Teaching Performance Assessment (owing to this requirement being applied retrospectively). Students under 2016 and 2017 who have already completed EDSP500 and were considering transfer to 2018 rules should note that they may only be eligible for Partial Credit for the academic component of the new EDSP510 and they would still have to enrol in EDSP510 to complete the 30 days Professional Experience embedded in the unit. Students under pre-2016 rules may be disadvantaged if they choose to change to 2018 rules due to the nature of the changes to the course, and should seek advice from the School or Enrolments and Progression. The School has explored transitional arrangement options for candidates in previous course rules (prior to 2016) with the assistance of staff in Enrolments and Progressions and these can be considered on a case by cases basis, to take into account what the student has already completed, so students should again seek advice from the School or the Enrolments and Progression team. |
Rules Variation Summary for 2017
Summary of Changes for 2017 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Program of Study Group 2 - Curriculum Units:
Group 3 - Listed Elective Teaching Units:
| Current students may complete under their current rules or apply to transfer to the 2017 rules subject to meeting the admission requirements. Note unit and title changes Students who have already successfully completed units that have been withdrawn will be credited towards their course |
Rules Variation Summary for 2016
Summary of Changes for 2016 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Program of Study Group 1 – Compulsory Teaching Units:
Group 2 - Curriculum Units:
Group 3 - Professional Experience Unit:
Group 4 - Listed Elective Teaching Units (now Group 3):
| Note unit and/or title changes Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course Current students may complete under their current course rules or apply to transfer to the 2016 rules subject to meeting admission requirements. Candidates continuing under current rules will be required from 2016 to pass BOSTES-mandated Literacy and Numeracy tests (‘GTIL 1.2’) prior to attempting their final Professional Experience placement. |
Rules Variation Summary for 2015
Update 28.10.19 students under 2013-2015 rules who have not completed EDUC404 (which is being deleted in 2019) should instead study EDUC540, the prerequisites of EDUC540 in 2019 have been expanded to accommodate this change.
Summary of Changes for 2015 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Program of Study Rule (a) has been changed to Program of Study Core Units:
Curriculum Units:
Professional Experience Unit:
Listed Elective Teaching Units:
| Note withdrawal Program of Study Rule (b) Note Program of Study Rule (a) changed to Program of Study Note unit and/or title changes Students who have not completed a Curriculum Unit at 400-level must complete the unit at 300-level Current students may complete under their current course rules. Students admitted under Rule (a) may apply to transfer to the new rules subject to meeting new admission requirements and course rules apply to transition to the new rules from 2015. Students admitted under Rule (b) will not be able to transfer to the new rules. Any candidate seeking to transfer will be assessed on an individual basis and advised of the practicality of a transfer. Update 28.10.19 students under 2013-2015 rules who have not completed EDUC404 (which is being deleted in 2019) should instead study EDUC540, the prerequisites of EDUC540 in 2019 have been expanded to accommodate this change. |
Rules Variation Summary for 2014
Summary of Changes for 2014 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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For candidates admitted under Rule (a): Group 4 – Listed Elective Teaching Units
For candidates admitted under Rule (b): Group 4 – Listed Elective Teaching Units
| Note unit change Update 28.10.19 students under 2013-2015 rules who have not completed EDUC404 (which is being deleted in 2019) should instead study EDUC540, the prerequisites of EDUC540 in 2019 have been expanded to accommodate this change. |
Rules Variation Summary for 2013
URules Variation Summary for 2012
Summary of Changes for 2013 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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For candidates admitted under Rule (a): Group 1 - Compulsory Teaching Units -
Group 2 - Curriculum Units –
Group 3 - Professional Experience Units –
Group 3 (was Group 4) – Listed Elective Teaching Units
For candidates admitted under Rule (b): Group 1 - Teaching Units -
Group 2 – Curriculum Units
Group 3 – Professional Experience Unit
Group 4 – Listed Elective Teaching Units
For candidates admitted under Rule (c):
| Note unit code and/or title changes Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2013 course rules. Students can stay in their existing rules or transfer to 2013 rules. Transition information is outlined below.
Four Core Units now contain 60 days of embedded professional experience:
Note Rule (c) course structure is no longer offered Update 28.10.19 students under 2013-2015 rules who have not completed EDUC404 (which is being deleted in 2019) should instead study EDUC540, the prerequisites of EDUC540 in 2019 have been expanded to accommodate this change. |
Summary of Changes for 2012 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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| Nil |
Rules Variation Summary for 2011
Summary of Changes for 2011 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Listed Elective Units:
| Note unit/title changes Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course |
Rules Variation Summary for 2010
Summary of Changes for 2010 | Implications for current Master of Teaching (Secondary) students |
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Core Units:
Curriculum Units
Elective Units:
| Note unit/title changes Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course |
