MSC Formation, Cuskelly House, Blackburn
Daniel and Trieu for MSC Vocations' promotion
Yesterday we featured formation in our Indonesian Province. Today, we present our local formation group,
During the mid-year break, Trieu and Daniel were involved in Final Vows preparation with sessions with Khoi, Philip Malone, Alo Lamere, Peter Carroll, focussing on vows and ministry. Kevin Hennessy CP directed them on retreat at Shoreham.
In the meantime, Vincent and Hoa went to Randwick, Vincent continuing his work at St Canice’s from earlier in the year.
Hoa worked at the Mission Office Conference. Pat Mara, PP of Randwick hosted them – and with Michael Nithin and Bang, they seem to have gone to an alternate religious venue.
This year, Vincent and Daniel have been participating in Clinical Pastoral Education programs and all are studying at the Yarra Theological Union, Box Hill where most of our MSC students have studied since 1972. If you go to our Ministries heading on this site and go to MSC books, you will find photos and memories from 1972 to the present. Click the image in that section and the book downloads.
And here is the group with their director, Mark Hanns.
You may be interested that the University of Divinity, of which YTU is a member, won an award for 2022, # 1 for overall student experience. Heart of Life is also affiliated with YTU,
University of Divinity #1 in Australia for overall student experience
The University of Divinity has once again been voted by students as having the highest quality overall educational experience of any university in Australia.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Sherlock, said
The University of Divinity’s results in the 2022 Student Experience Survey are absolutely outstanding and testify to our ability over many years to deliver the best student experience of any University in Australia.
These results are attributable to the quality of teaching provided by our dedicated staff, our commitment to small class sizes in which every student is known by name, and the effectiveness of our engagement with church and agency partners that enables us to provide students with the educational outcomes they need to flourish in a variety of professions, vocations and ministries.”
The annual Student Experience Survey (SES) took place over August to October 2022. The SES is part of the Federal Government’s Quality Indicator of Learning and Teaching (QILT) program and provides a national architecture for collecting data on key aspects of the higher education student experience.
The University of Divinity has seen a significant increase in ratings from 2021 to 2022, returning to claim the ‘top spot’ in ratings of the overall quality of educational experience for universities, which it also achieved in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2022, University of Divinity students reported particularly high satisfaction in the key areas of Learning Resources (90.6, 92.0), Student Support (89.9, 89.0) and Teaching Quality (88.9, 88.3).
The University of Divinity’s response rate was 47.8% of students, well above the national average response rate of 37.0%.
