Tyndale College has been raised up to serve the Christian community. Its founders, who come from a wide range of church backgrounds, seek to work alongside existing training institutions in “equipping God’s people for work in his service”. The College was founded in 1995 with the primary purpose of providing a comprehensive training in Christian teaching for lay persons, that will assist them with, and make them more effective in, their roles within their churches as elders, deacons, churchwardens, parish council members, Sunday School teachers, youth leaders, leaders of Bible Study groups, Christian school teachers; and those in leadership roles in parachurch organizations: indeed, workers of every kind in every sort of Christian association.
The College is an incorporated non-profit organization, interdenominational in nature, which exists to provide a service to the wider Christian Church. Ultimate responsibility for the affairs of the College is in the hands of a Board of Directors, who set its standards and policies, and guide its direction.
Tyndale College follows in the tradition of Bible Colleges established in Australasia during the past century. Its role is to provide high quality theological education at tertiary level by means of distance education, focusing upon teaching an understanding of the Bible and covering also a range of associated theological studies. It thus consists of five Schools of study, which provide undergraduate programs in all areas of theology. Each of these Schools is headed by a Dean.
The Director of the College has overall charge of the College’s academic program, and of the supervision of the Deans of the different Schools of the Faculty.
The members of Faculty of the College are the President, the Director, the Dean of Students, the Deans of the Schools, and the Tutors of the College.
The College Council administers the Courses of the College and its policies, and consists of the President (chairman), the other members of Faculty, and the members of the Board of Directors.
The Director reports to the President and Registrar and the College Council, and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the College. The Dean of Students has responsibility for the welfare and circumstances of the enrolled students of the College in all matters other than directly affecting their studies.
There are a number of Tutors, who help the students with their studies. Each student is allocated to a Tutor (sometimes more than one Tutor, for different subjects). The Tutors offer guidance to the students in their work, supervise their progress, mark their exercises and assignments, and seek to make themselves available to guide the students in other ways with their studies. The Tutors are responsible to the Deans of the different areas of study, and to the College Council.
The Tutors and Deans together comprise the Faculty of the College.
The Schools of the College, and their subject area codes, are:
* 10/20 Biblical Studies
- 10 Old Testament,
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20 New Testament
* 30 Church History
* 40 Theology
* 50 Pastoral Theology and Practice (Ministry and Evangelism)
* 60 Missiology and Cross-cultural Ministries
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