2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Education Awards

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence celebrate the University's most outstanding teachers in their fields. The awards recognise teachers renowned for excellence in teaching, who have made a broad and deep contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in higher education at ANU. All nominations must relate to teaching activities in higher education.

Up to three awards available per year, including Early Career.

The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning recognise learning and teaching support programs and services that make an outstanding contribution to the quality of student learning and the student experience of higher education at ANU. The programs and services that can be nominated for these awards must have demonstrated their effectiveness through evaluation.

Up to two awards available per year.

The ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Supervision recognises a sustained record of innovative and outstanding supervision of higher degree by research students, including honours and research students within coursework Masters degrees. Up to one award is available each year for academic staff as individuals or in teams. The core element of an application is a written statement in which nominees describe their supervisory practices and achievements, highlighting that which is unique, distinctive and outstanding.

Up to one award available per year.

The Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning recognise and reward the diverse contributions that university staff and associates make to the quality of student learning in higher education, and are awarded to academic staff, professional staff, sessional staff, and institutional associates, who have made significant contributions to student learning. Citations will be awarded for a wide range of contributions to student learning, where this contribution is recognised for achievements within the University. They provide an opportunity for distinctive missions, values and priorities in learning and teaching to be recognised, and will be awarded for both direct and indirect contributions.

Up to six citations available per year, including Early Career.

Tutors and demonstrators are responsible for much of the small group teaching at the ANU, so they make an immensely important contribution to front-line and hands-on teaching for their students. These awards celebrate our most outstanding tutors and demonstrators, and reflect the critical importance of this core teaching and learning activity.

Up to four awards available per year.

To recognise and value the outstanding work that is undertaken in Indigenous education across the Colleges and Divisions, the University offers the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Indigenous Education. These awards recognise excellence and innovation in teaching and learning, and the development of curriculum and/or higher-education programs relating to Indigenous Australians. 

For the purposes of this award, Indigenous higher education is a broad concept that embraces: 

1. Curricula and programs for Indigenous students; 
2. Curricula and programs involving collaborations with Indigenous Australians; 
3. Curricula and programs where the content relates to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and societies; 
4. Academic or professional staff who have made an important contribution to Indigenous education by furthering scholarly learning, research and public knowledge of Indigenous issues, and/or made important contributions to Indigenous communities/peoples' aspirations; 
5. Academic or professional staff who are themselves Indigenous;
6. Teaching teams involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous academic and non-academic experts.

Up to two Awards for Indigenous Education are available per year, up to one in each category: teaching, supervision, program, contribution to student learning, and tutoring-demonstrating.