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Call for 'New Blood' Among Academics REPORTER DAY AMAGAZINE FOR THE UNIVERSITY Registered by Australia Post - publication No. VBG0435 NUMBER 3-B6 MAY 7, 1 10·30AM-4·30PM • Open Day will be "three limes bigger" this year says Deputy Registrar, Jim Lei­ cester, who is involved In organising the University's jubilee celebrations. "Depart­ ments have made an extra effort to provide events of interest to the public . for this bumper, 25th anniversary event." Pictured left are models from the Hargrave library which will feature in an Open Day display_ (See page 7 for more details.) Other activities have been previewed in the centre pages of this issue, and full programs will be available from the Information Office in the preceding wee~, and from outlets at the University on Open Day. Call for 'new blood' among academics Monash administrators are looking at a 'new blood' scheme which could In a submission to the committee of be possible at a junior level. 1P Professor regulate the wildly fluctuating retirement patterns of academic staff. deans , Professor Muntz said: Muntz said. .. Although there appears no chance of a "Simply to go on as we are doing at About half the professorial staff will visits universities in the United government-funded new blood scheme present is going to result in continuing retire in the nexl 10 years. in a flood of Kingdom . being introduced in Australia, as it has problems of age structure in the future, senior vacancies which will coincide with He believes the "overall ageing of the in the United Kingdom, it should be and almost certainly a worsening in the similar vacancies at other universities, Monash stafr' presents some problems possible for individual universities to quality of academic staff. bringing strong competition for the best - and opportunities. introduce their own schemes. "There is a very marked 'bulge' in the candidates. But, he says, it is important that age distribution between 40 and 60 at the tenure should not be extended beyond "We could start to appoint junior This flood of vacancies follows many staff now even though total staff present time. years of decreasing staff mobility. with its present level. "This age distribution has adverse Other moves which might help free up numbers would rise above those few opportunities in the junior academic justified on staff/ student ratios. effects on the contact between staff and ranks and a very high number of senior the system include expansion of the students, which benefits from the lecturers at the top of their scale. early retirement scheme, greater move­ "This would be funded out of salary different form such relationships take savings and by 'mortgaging' the cost Predictions from the Higher Educa­ ment of staff between industry, govern­ when senior and junior staff are ment and the University, and increased against the salary savings we know will involved," he said. tion Advisory and Research Unit show occur at an accelerating rate after 1990. that unless forward planning begins numbers of graduate students who "If we continue the present policy of now, the same pattern of famine-flood would work in project groups involving "Taking the staff situation that actu­ replacing people who retire with junior vacancies will continue to occur. senior and junior staff. ally exists in the Science faculty, it can staff, as from 1990 we will start to The Registrar, Mr Tony Pritchard, be shown that two or three appoint­ The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Stafl), generate a new 'bulge' at the bottom of says Professor Muntz's proposed new ments per year at the junior level (one of the age distribution. Professor Mal Logan, says a new blood blood scheme is a Hgenuinely new idea" the bottom four points of the lecturer "By 2000 the present bulge will have scheme proposed by the Dean of with potential for the Science faculty scale) could be made, starting this year, Science, Professor Bill Muntz on the been replaced by an equivalent bulge and the University as a whole. at no increase to the total salary bill." aged between 40 and 25. British model, has interesting possi­ "The Faculty of Education is also get­ Staff numbers would rise by between bilities. ,. Assuming other universities have ting worried about ageing staff, and the six and 10 people. and would return to similar age distributions, they will also This scheme provides for the appoint­ age gap between staff and students is current numbers by about 1991. ment of additional junior staff in be looking for large numbers of new growing throughout the University. "If the academic salary cost of the staff at this time, and it will be difficult advance of senior retirements, with an "There will be a large tum-out within faculty were allowed to rise by an initial extra salary bill and later savings. to get candidates of high calibre," the next 10 years, as staff retire. and we amount equal to about five junior Professor Muntz said. Professor Logan will be studying such must plan our future policies now," he lecturer salaries for three to four years, a scheme in action next month when he said. at least three appointments a year would • See story page 2. PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES Papal edict Commenting on the interesting and • Tbe 1985 J.W. Dodds Memorial learned remarks by my compatriot Medal was awarded to first dass (Viennese) Dr Hans Lausch about the bonors graduate, Nicbolas Buchhorn, "Jubilee", , beg to direct his attention to for his work in Meehanital Engineer­ tbe fact tbat tbat term and its meaning ing, evaluatiDg tbe dynamic perform­ bas In the course of bistory undergone ance of • cold rolling mill and roll­ some cbanges. A poliCits student doing a PhD In Dr Raymond Wright, wbo grad­ positioning system. The first Jubilee-Year was proclaimed Ibe Centre for Southeast Asian Studies ualed PhD from Monash last year, is by Pope Bonifactus VIII in 1300 A.D. bas won the Caltex Woman Graduate the 1986 winner of Melbourne Univer­ Pope Clemens VI made it (the jubilee· in Auslralia Award for 1985. sity's Harbison-Higinbotham year) every 50 years, Pope Urban VI Research Scholarship, awarded to the Linda Reid, 22, an Arts honors every 33rd and Pope Paul II every 25th best Australian thesis in the areas of graduate from the University of Tas­ year. history, economics, politics, adminis­ mania, enroJled at Monash this year to So while [ do agree with the Herr tration, government and sociology. do her doctorate in Islamic politics. Doctor thai il is certainly nol the 25th The prize was also awarded to a (sic!) jubilee, it is a fact that the meaning As the Tasmanian candidate, she Monash candidate last year. of the term Hjubilee" is nexible and won the Caltex national title from a Dr Marilyn Lake, now a member of ranges from 25 to 100 years. field of State winners including Jan the University Council, was co-winner The logo should have said ,IFirst Adams, an Economics graduate from for her thesis titled The limits of hope: Jubilee (25 years)". Monash, who represented Victoria. Soldier set/lement in Victoria The authenticity of these details can The $44,000 scholarship will allow 1915-1938. be established by the perusal of the ) Linda to study in the United States for Dr Wright's thesis, in historical geo­ Meyer Konversotions Lexicon or any two years. graphy, Space and the public interest. • Hick, technical officer in other encyclopedia; it did not originate "I am now planning to change to a Crown land reservation in Victoria the department of Meebanictd Engin­ out of my own fund of knowledge of Masters degree, to be completed 1836-84, was done under the super­ eering, has been declared the outstand­ trivia. before August next year. and will do a vision of Dr Joe Powell, Reader in Ing apprentice of 1985, his final year at Fritz Josefl PhD at Cornell University in New Geography. DlIndenong T AFE College. Arts York State." she said. Other winners of the Harbison­ John, who has won awards through­ A Monash graduate, Vivian Burden, Higinbotham prize include Professor out his "mature apprenticeship", was won the Caltex national scholarship in Sol Encel, Mr Geoffrey Blainey and also given the Jack Whitty medallion Little sheepish 1983. Mr Justice Sir John Barry. and the Anseu-Pioneer Award. I ",rite In reply to the letter from Dr Hans Lauscb publlsbed in tbe Marcb issue. He states that a jubilee is a period of Staff morale' a cause for concern' 50 years. In fact it is the 50th year only. The English word is derived ulli­ The latest report OD academic starr have continued to decrease and tbe very "When they all disappear after Ihe mately from .the Hebrew "yobel", a now sbows tbe situation bas deterior­ high numbers of senior lecturers at the year 2000, they need to be replaced a so ram's horn. ated markedly since a study was done In top of their scale have grown. fixed proportion will retire in each five­ This alludes to the ancient custom of 1977 on starr mobility. "One might be concerned about the year period. sounding the trumpet on the Day of The report, prepared by Dr Terry morale, commitment and productivity Atonement on the 10th day of each Hare and Dr Leo West of the Higher of these large numbers of senior "Ideally. retirement patterns at all jubilee year, as commanded in Leviticus Education Advisory and Research Unit, lecturers," Dr Hore said. levels should be rectangular, with the Chapter 25, Verse 9. at the request of Professor Logan, HOnly 86 of them will reach retire­ same proportion of each rank retiring in Ronald GoIde.belJ shows numbers of staff in junior ranks ment age in the following decade.
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