Vision
To be a respected centre for vocational education, information studies, professional preparation, innovation, research, and sustainable community development.
About the Faculty
An academic overview presenting the faculty’s history, direction, values, objectives, and contribution to professional education.
Faculty overview
Connecting knowledge to practical service.
The Faculty of Vocational Education, Library and Information Science is presented as a multidisciplinary academic community focused on professional preparation, educational development, practical competence, research, information access, and community engagement.
The faculty combines professional preparation, educational development, practical competence, research, information access, and community engagement.
Faculty focus: professional preparation, practical learning, research, information access, and community engagement.
Faculty building or academic activity
Direction
Vision, mission and core values.
Mission
To prepare competent educators and information professionals through relevant teaching, practical experience, ethical service, research, and collaboration.
E
Excellence
Pursuing quality in learning, scholarship, leadership, and professional practice.
I
Integrity
Promoting ethical conduct, responsibility, fairness, and accountability.
R
Relevance
Connecting academic work to schools, workplaces, libraries, communities, and society.
C
Collaboration
Building productive partnerships across disciplines, professions, and institutions.
Academic focus
A multidisciplinary learning environment.
The faculty’s work is grouped into four broad areas that connect learning, practice, research, and service.
Practical learning, professional skills, teaching methods, technology, and workplace relevance.
Preparing educators who can design learning, assess progress, guide students, and improve educational delivery.
Knowledge organisation, information access, digital resources, user services, preservation, and responsible information practice.
Applying evidence, innovation, and professional expertise to practical educational and social challenges.
Objectives
What the faculty website should communicate.
Prepare professionals
Present programmes that support academic knowledge, practical competence, ethical conduct, and professional readiness.
Support research
Showcase seminars, publications, projects, collaborations, and emerging areas of inquiry.
Serve the community
Explain how teaching, outreach, information services, and innovation respond to real needs.