Professor Geoff SCOTT

Geoff Scott is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality) at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His specific areas of research and writing are in strategic change management in post-secondary and higher education; quality tracking and improvement in universities; identifying what engages students in productive learning; program innovation and evaluation; assessment of professional capability; studies of effective leadership and the equity implications of the increased use of I.T. in education.

He is adviser to a number of overseas countries on effective change management, quality assurance, and tracking and improvement systems for teaching and learning. Most recently this work has been with higher education systems in South Africa, New Zealand, North Carolina, Sweden and Finland and with the European Universities’ Association. For a number of years he has been involved in pro-bono work with the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia and in change management training with principals in NSW primary and secondary schools.

Earlier in his career Geoff was involved in establishing the Australian Schools Commissions’ Inner City Education Centre, developing NSW TAFE’s Outreach Project, setting up an award winning continuous learning and improvement program for Australia’s Skill Olympians and designing national partnership programs in diabetes education. At the University of Technology, Sydney he coordinated quality audits, chaired the University’s Flexible Learning Task Force and established the UTS planning and quality unit. Most recently he was director of the DEST-funded CEQuery project which makes possible the qualitative analysis of more that 250,000 comments written on the national Course Experience Questionnaire since the mid 1990s.

In 2000 Geoff was elected as a Fellow of the Australian College of Education for his national and international contributions to post-secondary and higher education.