A riverside Peppermint Grove property will be auctioned on Saturday as part of a generous bequest to The University of Western Australia.

The Faculty of Education has a long tradition  of  working  with  rural  schools and supporting developments in rural education. Three recent events are evidence of this continuing support: The Midwest  Rural Education  Field Trip, and new Narembeen and Goldfields trips. The Midwest Rural Education Field trip has provided secondary pre-service teachers with opportunities to experience teaching and living in rural  communities for over 13 years. This year, two primary teachers joined the experience.

On the weekend  of February 8-10 2013 The University of Western Australia  will be a hive of activity. As a part of the University’s cente- nary year, alumni  from  all around the world are invited to UWA to re- connect and participate  a range of events.

The  Faculty   of  Education   is   hosting a  series  of  short  talks  on  Saturday 9
February at the Fox Lecture Theatre. From 10.30am The Education Minister Hon. Peter Collier will talk about the past and the future of education  in Western Australia.

My research paper that was judged as ‘Most Valuable Paper of the Year Award’ by Teaching Science reported on a study of Year Ten students’ understanding of evolution.

Rather than ‘teach and test’ we explored whether students were able to apply the principles and mechanisms of evolution to everyday situations. For example: do body builders necessarily have children with more muscles?  How do head lice become resistant to insecticide? 

Have you considered becoming an early childhood teacher or a primary teacher?

That is the question the Faculty of Education is putting to potential students in the State's Southwest.

In 2013 The University of Western Australia's Albany Centre will offer (subject to sufficient  enrolments) a two-year Master of Teaching enabling graduates to qualify as early childhood or primary teachers.

Thousands more WA students will be encouraged to aspire to university education with a doubling in the number of regional and metropolitan high schools taking part in The University of Western Australia's Aspire UWA program.

“It is quite extraordinary to think that we are all gathered here this afternoon because of a hail storm... 22nd of March 2010 is one of those occasions when anyone who was in Perth will remember just where they were when it happened. When I look around now it is hard to believe that two years ago it was full of sodden earth and water, and flooded to a depth of 41 cm, completely destroying the interior of the Library.”

– Hon Dr Elizabeth Constable MLA, Minister for Education

The newly refurbished EDFAA Library opened on 23 February 2012 – almost two years after the March, 2010 storm which flooded the library and destroyed 15 per cent of the EDFAA collection.

Although the damage and disruption to the library was extensive, Acting Library Manager, Gina Sjepcevich said that,

The Faculty of Education continues to be home to one of the world’s leading research centres in the field of social measurement, with research funded by ARC Linkage and Discovery Grants, funding for the Pearson Psychometric Laboratory, high quality research students, and the stream of international visitors including doctoral students from other countries.