About TQI

The ACT Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) is an independent statutory authority established by the ACT Teacher Quality Institute Act 2010  to build the professional standing of ACT teachers and to enhance the community’s confidence in the teaching profession through professional regulation and practical initiatives to raise teacher quality.

TQI is charged with integrating standards-based quality measures into professional regulation as teachers enter and progress through career stages in the profession in order to enhance learner outcomes. TQI emphasises collaboration across education settings and between teachers, early childhood services, schools and universities. TQI promotes continuous professional learning and development and the professionalism of all teachers in the ACT.

In performing its statutory functions, TQI delivers the following range of services to early childhood education services, schools, ACT universities delivering teacher education and the teaching profession in the ACT:

• professional regulatory services
• quality assurance of initial teacher education and professional learning
• advice and training on standards and certification, accreditation of programs and teacher registration
• facilitation of collaborative practice
• promotion of continuing development and professionalism.