Become a teacher. Make a difference in the lives of young people by launching your career with a Bachelor of Education degree.

The education industry is growing at a fast rate and Australian and international educational institutions offer rewarding career options. 

This course allows for specialization in physical education, creativity and the arts, home economics, humanities and social sciences, mathematics teaching, outdoor education and science.

The course is a partnership based teacher education course. Partnerships between schools and the university provide the context in which you will learn the practice and theory of education.

• Location:
  Footscray Park and St Albans
• College:
  College of Education
• Study mode:
  Full Time
• Delivery mode:
  On campus
• Course code:
  ABED
• Duration:
  4 years
• This information is for Australian residents.
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With an education degree from VU, you’ll be job-ready before you graduate thanks to the extensive experience you’ll gain teaching in a classroom. You’ll be ready to work both locally and overseas in a profession with increasing demand around the world.

Job titles

• Primary school teacher
• Secondary school teacher

Organisations employing education graduates

You could be employed in a public or private primary or secondary school, teaching disciplines such as maths, science and English, to creative performance and arts, media, business, history, health, mathematics, PE, psychology, TESOL or welfare studies and many more.

Salaries

The average salary of secondary school teachers in Australia is A$75,400 (Job Outlook).

Primary school teachers in Australia earn an average of $65,000 per year (Job Outlook).

Employment rates

93 per cent of our Bachelor of Education students are employed within the first four months of graduation (VU Australian Graduate Survey).

Placement

Students complete a minimum of 80 days supervised teaching practice throughout the four-year course.

The aims of the course are to:

• offer a four-year pre-service teacher education program for students from diverse educational backgrounds;
• graduate teachers who are competent to teach in both primary and secondary schools;
• graduate competent teachers who participate actively in the teaching, curriculum, administrative and community life of schools;
• graduate teachers with social commitment and critical understanding of the changing nature of society; and
• establish close partnership relations with schools and other community, industry and welfare institutions with similar educational commitments.

To be awarded the Bachelor of Education (P-12) degree students must have successfully completed 384 credit points. Students must complete 20 core education units and 11 electives which are usually connected to the chosen specialisations. Students also complete a minimum of 80 days supervised teaching practice (Project Partnerships – Learning in the Workplace).

• Year 12: To qualify for admission to the course, applicants must have successfully completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), or its equivalent, with Units 3 and 4 and a study score of at least 25 for English, and satisfactory completion for Unit 1 and Unit 2 in VCE General Mathematics or Unit 1 and Unit 2 in VCE Mathematics Methods.
• International: International students from non-English speaking countries are required to demonstrate a minimum IELTS of 6.5. Those students whose IELTS score is below 7.0 will be required to satisfactorily complete AEB1100 Literacy and Language and demonstrate an IELTS score of 7.0.
• Mature: Applicants who do not meet the normal admission requirements but who possess appropriate educational qualifications, work or life experiences which would enable them to successfully undertake the course, will be considered for admission.

Special admission requirements

Applicants without satisfactory VCE mathematics study will be required to demonstrate competence in mathematics, and may be required to complete additional mathematics study. Applicants who do not meet the normal admission requirements but who possess appropriate educational qualifications, work or life experiences which would enable them to successfully undertake the course, will be considered for admission. Applicants who have completed at least two years full-time higher education study including successful completion of eight units of study in two Discipline Specialisations of the B.Ed. (P-12) (two sub-major sequences) as defined by the Victorian Institute of Teaching ‘Specialist Area Guidelines’ are eligible for admission to the Accelerated Program within the B. Ed. (P-12).