Institution Profile

Institution Description:

AITSL is a public company based in Melbourne. We are funded by the Australian Government. The Commonwealth Minister for Education and Training is the sole member of the company.

As a national body, we were established to promote excellence in the profession of teaching and school leadership. We work with the education community to improve student learning by:

• defining and maintaining standards for initial teacher education, teachers and principals;
• leading and influencing improvement and reform in initial teacher education, teaching and school leadership;
• supporting, recognising and extending high quality, high impact professional practice.