About Us
Vision & Mission
Our Vision
St Barnabas College is a community of inspired learners equipped and enabled to serve God and the Church.
Our Mission
St Barnabas College will achieve its vision by:
- Striving for academic excellence
- Creating opportunities for ministry training, personal growth, and professional development
- Building a Community of Learning for the whole people of God
Our Strategic Goals
1. Striving for academic excellence
- Appoint expert teaching staff
- Benchmark subject content delivery against the Higher Education Provider
- Support a research active culture
- Enable First Nations People access to theological education and support them to achieve
- Provide an excellent online teaching and learning environment
2. Creating opportunities for ministry training and professional development
- Identify needs and deliver professional development programs for the Diocese
- Support the spiritual and pastoral care of students and staff
- Actively promote vocations – lay and ordained
- Welcome theological diversity through a principle of generous orthodoxy
- Aim for inclusivity of gender and cultures
3. Building a centre of learning for the whole people of God
- Foster an environment of active learning
- Identify, design, and provide short non-tertiary accredited courses
- Instil a joy of learning
- Collaborate with the wider Anglican community
- Promote sustainability and awareness of climate and environment