Craig is also deeply involved in jazz education. He was Chair of the Jazz Studies Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. from 2005 - 2016, and continues at the SCM as a sessional lecturer in Double Bass and Improvisation.  He frequently gives master classes at other tertiary institutions around Australia and New Zealand.  He has also taught for the Jazz Action Society jazz workshop programme and for ‘Jazzworx!’ jazz clinics in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Townsville.  In July 2002 he was invited to be a guest lecturer at Berklee Music School in Boston, U.S.A for the IASJ (International Association of Schools of Jazz.)

Craig holds a Masters Degree in Music (Jazz Performance) from the Australian National University (Canberra School of Music), and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Sydney.