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Arms of the "University The principal elements incorporated in the arms of the University are the blue of the sea, the gold of the sand and the red of the Illawarra flame tree. The open book often used for educational institutions is also included. The blazon is: Azure an open book proper bound gold on a chief wavy of three cinquefoils gules
ATiriUAL REPORT 1988 THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG
The Honourable Dr Terry A. Metherell, MP, Minister for Education
Dear Minister, In accordance with section 10(i) of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act, 1984, the Council of the University has the honour to present to you the Annual Report of the proceedings of the University for the period 1 January to 31 December 1988.
Chancellor
"Vice-Chancellor
©Crown copyright 1989 ISSN 0313-6906
The University of WoUongong Northfields Avenue WoUongong NSW Postal Address: PO Box 1144, WoUongong NS>V 2500 Australia Telephone:. (042) 270 555 Telex: 29022 Facsimile: (042) 270 477 Cable: UNIOFWOL All enquiries should be addressed to the University Secretary concent:
Introduction Student Activities Vice-Chancellor's Review 53 University Halls of Residence Government of the University 54 Counselling Service Administration of the University 14 55 Recreation and Sport Charter and Mission Statements 17 56 Students' Representative Council Academic Governance flow charts 18 56 University Union
Academic Activities Liaison with Industry Faculty of Arts 20 57 Illawarra Technology Centre Faculty of Commerce 24 59 WoUongong Uniadvice Limited Faculty of Education 26 Faculty of Engineering 28 60 Publications Faculty of Mathematical Sciences 30 Faculty of Science 31 62 Highlights of the Year— Camera's-eye View Research Activities 34 66 Prizes Awarded Special Projects Business and Technology Complex 42 Appendices Career Training for Finance Sector 45 68 Buildings and Site Developments English for Overseas Students 45 73 Grants and Donations 82 Staff and Student Statistics Academic and Allied Services 93 Appointments, Terminations and Aboriginal Education Unit 46 Promotions Computer Services 48 96 Study Leave Conservatorium of Music 49 98 Council Attendances Equal Employment Opportunity 50 99 Statement of Accounts External Studies Division 50 Friends of the University 51 Michael Birt Library 51 Occupational Health and Safety 52 Centre for Teaching Development 52 THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S REVIEW
URING 1988 there was more change and pending change in the Australian higher education system than there had D been for a generation. Publication of the Federal Government's White Paper, which defined its policies and decisions as a consequence of the debate which had been sparked by the earlier Green Paper, set in train major changes some of which are still to be completed. The process of debate and policy setting was itself a major catalyst for change in the national role of the higher education system. The Federal Government felt that its program of reform of both macro- and micro-economic policies had to be accompanied by changes of attitude and content in education and training. Anyone blissfully unaware of the changes in the air at the beginning of 1988 had certainly been sensitised and probably directly affected by the changes by the end of the year Direct government pressure for changes in working conditions within universities was potent because the government decided that pending salary increases (to adjust for inflation) would not be funded unless there was evidence of the willingness of academic unions to accept, on behalf of their members, revised employment provisions, requiring staff evaluation and counselling, revised staff discipline rules and, effective provisions for redundancy. By the year end, the macro proposals for wholesale amalgamations which would result in fewer, bigger institutions, almost all to be called universities, were the centre of attention in New South Wales. The State Government had co-operated enthusiastically with the Federal Government and produced a plan to link colleges of advanced education into network universities resulting in seven or at most eight higher education institutions. Other proposals still pending have been moves to reduce drastically the size of governing bodies, the election of Chancellor, the pattern of representation on councils and decreased staff representation, the new concept envisaging Boards of Governors, each with a strong chief executive (Vice- Chancellor), in place of the former governing councils. How did WoUongong fare in all these changes? Fortunately the need for change had been evident well before the Green and White Papers. The Federal Government's actions, though dramatic by previous standards, were the inevitable consequence of a changing world and the need for Australia to adjust to it. Previous to the Green and White papers, this University has been progressively adjusting its internal policies in anticipation of the inevitability of these changes. Consequently WoUongong University found that it had already put in place the new arrangements that were being imposed on other universities. In our case these had been amicably negotiated with complete academic community co-operation. We felt pleased to have been so successful in anticipating inevitable change and in achieving without trauma what others were finding stressful and difficult. Similarly, in respect of amalgamations, the State Government's comments were that the University of WoUongong had 'demonstrated how a university can successfully offer a range of higher education courses (in respect of both areas of study and academic awards) to meet the needs of a diverse and growing region and beyond'. It did not propose any amalgamations for the university, stating that it would be able to operate 'as a comprehensive, independent university within the Unified National System'. Naturally we took this as a ringing endorsement of the forward planning and of the programs offered by the University. In recent years we have set ourselves the goal of being distinguished by a culture which is creative, enterprising and exacting; the resulting outcome has been endorsed by state and federal planning. Moreover, as part of a year of extra ordinary reform activity, the University was involved in many of the specific actions taken nationally to implement the broad proposals for reform. For instance, the Deputy Vice- Chancellor, Professor Chubb, was part of the small national task force visiting all institutions for discussions of proposed teaching profiles; at the year end, the University had become the national site for projects for the development of performance indicators and for review of the process of setting research priorities. All the activity affecting us from outside the campus was complemented by very pleasing indications of added strength within the University. For instance, the resources available for pure and applied research projects continue to increase dramatically as staff have attracted increased The Vice-Ciiantellor national research grant funding and as industry has commissioned more activity by the University. The preliminary investigatory activity of the previous year in assessing the market for increased numbers of foreign students enrolments began to bear fruit during 1988. In addition to the nearly 600 foreign students previously enrolled with the assistance of Australian aid schemes and subsidies, the University took its first 80 directly recruited full-fee paying students from overseas. The groundwork having been laid, this number is expected to increase fairly quickly in future years. The University increased its services to the student community with more carefully structured orientation programs for new students and stronger support programs for those with learning difficulties, and more assistance for those in need of counselling. Stiffer 'show progress' rules made it clear to students that there was a strong expectation that they would make the best possible use of their study opportunities. The rigorous teaching evaluation program for staff has drawn attention to teaching shortcomings. Student assessments of teaching have played a part. These developments, combined with the higher entry requirements resulting from the increased popularity of the University among students, has led to satisfying academic results. Relationships between members of the academic community, students, staff and administrators have been excellent. The student body now has the critical mass in numbers to generate a larger variety of well-subscribed clubs and societies. Increases in maturity of student politics have been evident. Campus life for students is rich and varied. The main worries apparent for students have been the imminent changes in national policies, particularly the introduction of a higher education charge scheme, imposing an $1800 per year deferred fee on students, and the perennial problems of finding living allowances and adequate studying space on and off campus. The physical plant of the University continues to be stretched beyond reasonable capacity. The Library's need for more space was alleviated by the completion towards the end of the year of a substantial new wing and the University Union extensions helped to cope with demand, but space for lectures and staff offices has again been inadequate. The University is moving as quickly as possible to increase the number of student residential places, but in the absence of federal funds and with the limits on borrowing imposed by governments, the pace is slower than the University feels essential. The University in 1988 reorganised its several applied research and industry-related centres to bring the many different types of organisation under one umbrella body, the Illawarra Technology Corporation. This will encompass the University's consultancy arm, Uniadvice, the previous Illawarra Technology Centre, the Automation and Engineering Applications Centre, the National Engineering Information Service and a number of self-supporting applied research centres and other semi-commercial and commercial activities. The changes are already showing benefits: the activities are going well and turnover is increasing at a most satisfactory rate. Stage II of the Technology Centre will be built during 1989 and a start will be made on developments of Stage III of the Technology Park at Campus East. As the year ended the University had a strong sense of achievement and a strong sense that its energetic and analytic approach to external pressures was enabling it to anticipate external events well enough to turn potential disadvantages into opportunities. The University is keen to continue to build on its strengths and to exploit those opportunities. In 1988 we became what others saw as 'the very model of a modern university'; there is no doubt that there will be further progress in 1989.
Professor K.R. McKinnon The University of Wollongone March 1989 ^^m?^
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Principal Officers Vice-Chancellor Professor Kenneth Richard McKinnon, A.U.A. Visitor AdeL, BA BEd Qld, EdD Harv., FACE His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Research) Chancellor Professor Ian William Chubb, MSc DPhil Oxf. The Honourable Mr Justice Robert Marsden Hope, AC, CMC, LL.B Syd. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Services and Deputy Chancellor Development), Director of the Institute of The Honourable Lawrence Borthvdck Kelly, MLA Advanced Education (until March 1988) Professor Peter Desmond Rousch, BA BEd Brian Somerville Gillett, BA DipEd Melb., PhD Wayne State, FACE, FAIM
The University Council: as will be exrident from the list of members on these pages, and from the empty seats, not everyone was present when this picture was taken. But, clock wise from the middle fore ground, pictured are Mr Ted Pickering, Dr Max Lowrey, Mr Chris Downy, Mr Jim Langridge, Dr John Panter, Dr Arthur Smith, Mr Daniel Morrissey, Mr Ron Parker, Mr Tony Kent, Mr Michael Arrighi, Mr Jerry Ellis, the Vice-chancellor Professor Ken McKinnon, the Chancellor Mr Justice Hope, AC, CMG, Deputy Chancellor Mr Brian Gillett, minutes secretary Mrs Lynn Woodley, Deputy Vice- Chancellor Professor Peter Rousch, Mr Paul Manning, Mr Keith Phipps, Mrs Sue Chapman, Mr Rod Oxley and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb. Professor Chubb and Mr Langridge are not members of the Council but may sit in to answer questions in their areas of interest. Mr Ken Baumber, the University Secretary, is normally seated between the Chancellor and Deputy Chancellor University Secretary The Honourable Christopher John Downey, Kenneth Eardley Baumber, BSc St And. MLA, BA, DipEd, Syd. Ministerial Nominees Deputy University Secretary/Business Manager Brian Somerville Gillett, BA DipEd (until James Wilbur Langridge, BBus NSW IT, Dip 6 December 1991) Colin Denley, LL.B, SoHcitor (until 10 June Tertiary Ed N.E., MACS 1988) Eleanor Mary Lynch, Solicitor (until THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL* 6 December 1988) Graham Roberts (until 6 December 1988) Elected by the Legislative Council Cohn Patrick HoUis, MP BA Open, BSc (Econ) The Honourable Norman Leo King, MLC DIA Lond. (until 6 December 1988) (until 5 February 1988) Jeremy Kitson Ellis, MA Oxf. (until The Honourable Edward Phillip Pickering, 6 December 1991) MLC, BSc (Chem. Eng.) NSW Julia Ellen Munro, LL.B, Solicitor (until 6 December 1988) Elected by the Legislative Assembly Ronald William James, BA, MB, BS, DGO, The Honourable Lawrence Borthwick Kelly MLA FRCOG, FRACOG (until 6 December 1991) (until March 1989) Albert C. Evans (until 6 December 1991) The Chancellor, Mr Justice Hope
Susan Chapman, BA, DipHealthAdmin (until Elected by the Students of the University 6 December 1990) (2 year terms) Ronald Griffiths (until 6 December 1990) David Brown (until 20 November 1988) Roderick John Oxley, BBus, ADipLocalGovAdmin Monique Danielle Licardy (until 20 November FASA, FAIM, AIMM (until 6 December 1990) 1990) Harold Hanson, DipLaw(SAB) (until Paul L. Manning, BEd Syd. (undl 20 6 December 1990) November 1989) Daniel Morrissey (until 20 November 1989)
Ex Officio The Chancellor: The Honourable Mr Justice Robert Marsden Hope, AC, CMG LL.B Syd. Elected by Convocation (3 year terms) The Vice-Chancellor: Professor Kenneth Michael Eugene Arrighi, BA (until 20 Richard McKinnon, A.U.A. AdeL, BA BEd November 1991) Qld, EdD Haru., FACE Keith William Phipps, BA DipEd MACE (until Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Services and 20 November 1990) Development), Director of the Institute of Dr Winifred Joyce Mitchell, MA N.E., PhD Advanced Education: Professor Peter Desmond NSW (undl 20 November 1991) Rousch, BA BEd Melb., PhD Wayne State, Gary Reginald Ryan, BCom (until 20 FACE FAIM November 1989)
D. R. A. Anderson H. S. Bradlow M, Bunder G. D. Calvert
10 Elected by the Full-time Academic Staff of the University (3 year terms) Professorial members Professor Ronald C. King, BCom BEd Melb., PhD Monash, FAPsS (until 20 November 1990) Professor Murray G.A. Wilson, MA N,Z,, MA Wis,, PhD Melb,, MCIT (until 20 November 1988) Stephen Castles, MA, DPhil Sussex (until 20 November 1991) Academic Staff Members other than Professors Dr Maxwell J. Lowrey ME NSW, PhD ASTC G. Doherty MlEAust MACS (until 20 November 1991) Dr John R. Panter, BA Adel, PhD N.S.W. (until 20 November 1989) Elected by the Institute Academic Staff William Mowbray BSc MEd NSW (until 20 November 1988) Dr Edward O. Booth, BEc DipEd MEd Syd,, EdD Hawaii (until 20 November 1990) Arthur Richard Smith, MA Stanford, PhD Ohio (undl 20 November 1991) Elected by the Full-time General Staff of the University (3 year terms) Anthony Edward Kent (until 20 November 1991) J E. Folk J. S. Hagan Felicity McGregor, BA DipLib NSW, ALA A (until 20 November 1989) Ronald B. Parker, BA (until 20 November 1990) Kathleen M. Rozmeta, BA N.E., Med Syd. (until 25 November 1988) Secretary to Council Mr Kenneth Baumber, University Secretary
THE ACADEMIC SENATE*
Chairman of Senate Professor Ronald C. King D. S. Hawley M. Hough Ex Officio Members The Honourable Justice Robert M. Hope, Chancellor Professor Kenneth R. McKinnon, Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian W. Chubb, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter D. Rousch, Deputy Vice- Chancellor (Services and Development), Director of the Institute of Advanced Education Mr Kenneth E. Baumber, University Secretary Mr John Shipp, University Librarian
M. R, Gaffiken H, M, Gamett
Membership at December 1988
11 -ZZ^M^^S^ ^^^ Heads of Departments Professor M. J. R. Gaffikin, Department of Accountancy and Legal Studies Professor Helen M. Gamett, Department of Biology Professor Leon Kane-Maguire, Department of Chemistry Professor Lewis C. Schmidt, Department of Civil and Mining Engineering Associate Professor Gregory Doherty, Department of Computing Science I Professor Dudley A. S. Jackson, Department of D. A. Griffiths S. C. Hill Economics Professor Hugh S. Bradlow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor James M. Wieland, Department of English Professor Murray G. A. Wilson, Department of Geography Professor Alan C. Cook, Department of Geology, Deputy Chairman of Senate Professor Edward P. Wolfers, Department of History and Politics Dr Daniel S. Hawley, Department of Languages Professor Julian F. Lowe, Department of T. S. Horner R. C. King Management Dr Thomas S. Horner, Department of Mathematics Professor Peter Arnold, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor W J. Plumbridge, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Professor J. Lauchlan C. Chipman, Department of Philosophy Professor Peter Fisher, Department of Physics Professor William J. Lovegrove, Department of Psychology Associate Professor James E. Falk, Department of Science and Technology Studies W, f. Lovegrove S. Castles Professor Stephen C. Hill, Department of Sociologfy
Deans of Faculties Professor J. S. Hagan, Faculty of Arts Mr John C. Steinke, Faculty of Commerce Associate Professor David R. Anderson, Faculty of Education Professor Brian H. Smith, Faculty of Engineering Professor John R. Blake, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Associate Professor Peter D. Bolton, Faculty of I M. Mathur F. Pyke Science Heads of Schools Dr Peter Shepherd, School of Creative Arts Professor Caria Fasano, School of Policy and Technology Studies
12 E. Richards P Shepherd J Shtpp B, H. Smith
Professor Ronald C. King, School of Learning Studies, Chairman of Senate Dr Michael Hough, School of Industrial and Administrative Studies Professor G. Dennis Calvert, School of Health Sciences
Heads of Centres Professor Stephen Castles, Centre for Multicultural Studies Professor Ron Johnston, Centre for Technology A. G. Morris and Social Change
Academic Staff Elected by and from the Members of Each Faculty Dr Evelleen Richards, Faculty of Arts Dr Bruce W. N. Lo, Faculty of Commerce Ms Patricia A. Rees, Faculty of Education Dr Robyn N. Chowdhury, Faculty of Engineering Dr Leszek A. Macaisek, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Associate Professor Frank Pyke, Faculty of Science J, M. Wieland M, G. A. Wilson Student Members Mr David Brown Mr Alex G. Cook Mr Ty J. Emerson Ms Christina A. Langford Mr Daniel J. Morrissey
Secretary to Senate Mr Peter Wood, Assistant Secretary, Academic Services
\E. Wolfed P G, Wood
13 ADMINISTRATION
he prime objectives of the University The ADP Unit provides support for and Administration are to provide support development of the Administration's computer- T for the management and development of based systems. the University and its academic endeavours. It The EEO Unit is responsible for the imple does so through its six branches and the mentation of the objectives established in the Administrative Data Processing Unit (ADPU), University's EEO Management Plan and for co-ordinated by the University Secretary. The meeting both State and Commonwealth legis Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Unit lative requirements as they relate to equal- is responsible directly to the Vice-Chancellor employment opportunity. Academic Services Branch • responsible for providing secretariat support, Major Activities ceremonial activities (e.g. Graduation), • From January 1, all academic staff moved to research and postgraduate matters. common conditions of employment. Regular programs of academic staff evaluation and Buildings and Grounds appraisal were introduced. All staff, general • responsibility for the physical development and academic, now work to clearly identified and maintenance of the University campuses. objectives and are under annual review. This has been supported by enhancement of Financial Services already extensive staff training and • responsible for budgetary and accounting development programs. services, business and office services, and campus security. • During the year, substantial negotiations took place with the Department of Employment, Personnel Services Education and Training in the context of • responsible for all general and academic planning for the 1989-91 Triennium staffing matters, including personnel records, including responses to the 'Green' and 'White' salaries, industrial relations, staff training policy papers and the development of an and development, and occupational health educational profile for the University. and safety. • The further development of computer-based Planning and Marketing systems within the Administration, especially • responsible for planning and development, in the staff and student areas, and the including statistics; the promotion and upgrading of statistical returns to the marketing of the University including media Department of Employment, Education and liaison, student recruitment and publications; Training, involved considerable effort, both and the University's international operations. by the ADP Unit and the Statistics Unit of the Planning and Marketing Branch. Student Services • responsible for undergraduate student matters • The University continued through its Inter including admissions, examinations and national Office to market courses in South- student records and for student support East Asia and has extended its activities into services such as Counselling and Careers North America. Over 80 full-fee-paying Services and non-collegiate accommodation. students were enrolled in 1988 with 100 new students projected for Session 1 and a further 70 for Session 2 in 1989.
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On the left is the Deputy University Secretary and Business Manager Mr Jim Langridge, with University Secretary Mr Ken Baumber
Improvement in the quality and numbers of The Administration, then, had a full and enrolments in both the Undergraduate and productive year. Internal demands from Postgraduate areas was evident in 1988. management to meet the growing and changing Postgraduate enrolments in particular are needs of a rapidly developing and an innovative increasing with the number of Doctor of University combined with external demands Philosophy candidates enrolled having more especially from Canberra resulted in heavy than doubled in the past five years. workloads. Staff responded and met those The University's publicity included feature challenges with a good deal of skill and supplements on the University in major enthusiasm and staff morale remained high newspapers and a successful campaigfn for throughout. improved media coverage of University activities. Planning and Statistics Campus development included the completion of Stage 3 of the Michael Birt The activities of the Planning and Statistics Library and the construction of a new Section during 1988 were dramatically Performance Centre for drama students. Car influenced by the structure of higher education parking and lighting were substantially initiated by the release of Higher Education: improved. The University was successful in A Policy Discussion Paper in December 1987 by achieving the Department of Employment, the Federal Government and the subsequent Education and Training support for a major policy statement released in July 1988. The new academic building with construction to requirement for institutions to prepare extensive start in 1989. Buildings on the University's profiles on teaching and other activities before Campus East have been extensively refur and after negotiations with the Department of bished and residential accommodation for 90 Employment, Education and Training (DEET) students at the campus became available for largely occupied the latter half of the year for the first time. Space was also provided for a the Planning staff. number of academic research activities and The increasing computerisation of statistics with for the transfer of the University's both student and staff collections now returned Maintenance staff to the site. to DEET via magnetic media, placed an
15 additional workload on both the Statistics and well as with government authorities and outside Administrative Data Processing staff, but this bodies. development will benefit the University in the University representatives during 1988 visited long term. The provision of defined and several countries in the South-East Asian region consistent information about its staff and for the purpose of recruiting full-fee students students is an invaluable planning tool and will and establishing links with other tertiary provide the base data for a management institutions. These countries included Hong information system to be developed in 1989. Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. As a result, over 80 This information will also be increasingly used full-fee students enrolled in a range of under to evaluate the performance of the University in achieving its planned goals and targets, hence graduate and postgraduate courses. This the relationship between Planning and Statistics number is expected to increase to around 150 staff is becoming one of mutually dependent in 1989. team work. Twinning agreements were signed with the Assumption Business Administration College in The rising awareness within the University of Thailand and Shue Yan College, Hong Kong. the need to plan clearly and define its goals, linked with the need accurately to assess its New marketing links were established in the characteristics and evaluate performance will United States of America. The University was ensure that the work of the Planning and represented at several Study Abroad fairs and Statistics Section will be crucial to the future at the NAFSA Conference held in May in the development of the University. United States. As a result, new student- exchange agreements have been sigjned and a Established during 1987, the International group of American students will be spending Office within the Planning and Marketing their Study Abroad year at the University of Branch provides a focus within the University WoUongong from Session One, 1989. The for the activities associated with full-fee overseas International Office will co-ordinate both the students and other international programs. student-exchange programs and the Study The office deals with all matters associated with Abroad program. the recruitment of the full-fee students includ Staff were also involved with organising and ing the organisation of overseas recruitment co-ordinating programs for visitors from missions. Staff liaise with academic staff and overseas institutions, thus strengthening existing student services staff within the University, as links and establishing new ties.
With Trish Tindall, left, Study Abroad Co-ordinator in the International Office, is Judy Tilson from the University of North Carolina, on a -visit to finalise exchange agreements between the two universities
16 CHARTER MISSION
The University of WoUongong was STATEMENT established and incorporated by an Act of the New South Wales Parlia 1. The prime objective of The ment: 'The University of WoUongong University of WoUongong is to be Act, 1972' and commenced on 1 strong in both the traditional and January 1975. An amending Act, new disciplines at both 'The University of WoUongong undergraduate and postgp"aduate (Advanced Education) Amendment levels so as to produce graduates and Act, 1982' led to the amalgamation research outcomes of international of the former WoUongong Institute of distinction and in areas of national Education with the University. importance. The aims of the University are 2. The University especially contained in Section 10(i) of the Act, emphasises in its courses and research which states that the University shall, activities the comprehension, critical within the limits of its resources: evaluation, and application of science and new technologies to industry, (a) provide at WoUongong or commerce and society. elsewhere educational facilities at university standard and advanced 3. The University is committed to education courses for any persons increasing excellence through the enrolled therein; attraction of increasingly well- qualified students from both within (b) disseminate and increase Australia and from overseas. Specific knowledge and promote objectives designed to ensure this scholarship; academic excellence include strong (c) confer and award degfrees and student advice and support diplomas; and arrangements, stringent progress (d) have particular regard to the requirements and constant updating need for educational facilities of of curricula content. university standard and for 4. The University recognises its advanced education courses in special responsibility to the the Illawarra region. educational needs of its region's The University is governed by the population and aims to meet that Council, consisting of ex-officio obligation through arrangements members (the Chancellor, the Vice- which encourage greater participation Chancellor and the Director of the in higher education. Institute), eight Ministerial nominees, 5. A broad general education two members elected by Parliament, combined with appropriate specific three members elected by students, or professional skills will be provided nine members elected by academic for all students. Research skills, com and general staff and four members munication skills, computer literacy, elected by the Convocation. There is skill in logical exposition and one major Committee of Council, the competence in the use of statistical Administrative Committee. concepts will be expected of all The major academic body providing graduates. advice to Council on academic 6. High standards of teaching and matters is the Academic Senate. performance and of research activity, both basic and applied, are encouraged and maintained through staff development, evaluation and guidance programs.
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Successful study of these study of the Arts disciplines in their subjects in approved sequences at ovsm right by promoting coherent undergraduate level leads to one of courses of study, and maintaining the three Bachelor's degrees that the research opportunities for staff. It Faculty administers: the Bachelor of believes that one is essential to the Arts, the Bachelor of Creative Arts, other and that, without their nexus, and the Bachelor of Information teaching would lose its vigour. Staff Technology and Communication. At involved in inquiry and creativity postgraduate level, the Faculty offers themselves are best able to excite a range of Masters degrees by course- enthusiasm for critical thought work and by thesis, a Doctorate of among their students, and stimulate Creative Arts involving presentation the power to imagine. and thesis and a Doctorate of The range of courses the Faculty Philosophy by thesis only. It is also offers is somewhat broader than those possible to take a one-year post commonly offered by faculties of graduate Diploma of Arts, specialis equivalent size. It provides courses in ing in one or more of the disciplines the humanities, the social sciences, wdthin the Faculty. and in the creative arts: from long- All these courses teach the skills of established subjects such as thinking and communication which are common to all scholarly inquiry and discourse, and their application, in a humane social context. All are During the year Juli concerned with theory; it is difficult Crooke received her to distinguish clearly between them Australian Institute of in terms of their practicality. Political Science prize for Theoretical knowledge is eminently best undergraduate per formance in Politics in practical in the sense that those who 1987. Studying for a BA know how to apply it have the means degree at WoUongong, to adopt their knowledge to changing fuli already holds a DSCM in Cello from the NSW circumstances. Those who do not are Conservatorium of Music doomed to operate with knowledge and has been a member that is obsolescent. Similarly, those of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra who operate their skills without an appreciation of their cultural inheritance, or an awareness of the possible social consequences of their actions, make at best a dubious contribution to the present and the future. The Faculty tries to ensure that its own students do better, and it looks forward to being able to help 20 m^i^f^mms The Department of English during 1988 was host to several distinguished visitors. Seen here with Associate Professor Jim Wieland (right) is one of them, Professor Bernard Hickey, Professor of English at the University of Lecce. Italy, and chairman of the Commonwealth Literature Association. Among other visitors were Associate Professor Aritha van Herk, Canadian scholar and novelist, Sir Paulias Matone, Papua New-Guinean diplomat and writer, Rudy Weibe, Canadian novelist, Dr John Kwan-Terry, from Singapore, and Professor Albert Wertheim, from Indiana 21 an increasing number of scholars. The Occasional Address at the first of the May The Department of History and graduation ceremonies Politics has taught subjects in South- was given by the noted East Asian history for almost 20 historian. Professor Manning Clark, who years, and has developed them to the posed the question: who point where it offers a unique major owns Australia? and course of study; the Department of challenged graduands to provide the answer English has established a New Literatures Centre which is especially concerned with the 'new English' literatures of the emerging nations from New Guinea to Malaysia; the Departments of Sociology and Science and Technology Studies have built research programs and courses of study increasingly concerned with the effects of technological change in the same region. •With these developments in mind, students in other faculties to place the Faculty is planning its future their skills in cultural and social patterns of teaching and research. perspectives. During 1988, it made a submission to In the past few years, the Faculty has the Committee Inquiring into Asian increasingly concentrated its resources Studies, arguing for seeding money to on the study of technological change establish a major study in Indonesian and its social effects. The context of language. "With the Faculty of Com this study has so far been mainly merce, it is exploring ways in which Australian but, in the last year or so, an Asian Studies program might be the Faculty has developed research integrated within the existing BCom projects and courses of study con degree, or developed with a cerned with Australia's northern BA/BCom joint degree. It is adding neighbours. to its Asian Studies offerings by It plans to develop this trend in the combining its strengths in South-East next few years and, in so doing, it is Asian and Labour History to produce building upon a body of knowledge subjects in South-East Asian Labour and skill that has been accruing over History. At postgraduate level, it will several years, and which has involved be offering a Master of Arts in Three members of the staff of the School of Creative Arts awarded degrees during the year were, from left, Lindsay Duncan, Master of Creative Arts, Peter Shepherd (Acting Head of the School), who became the first person to take the degree of Doctor of Creative Arts, and John Wayne Dixon, Master of Arts (Hons) 22 International Relations, designed for While on study leave middle-level administrators in Papua- in London, Dr Ian New Guinea and the developing McLaine (History) gave adx/ice on a script for a countries to our north. Another new television documentary/ degree, the Master of Policy (Social), drama based substan will also offer subjects whose national tially on a chapter of his book, Ministry of contexts will be similar Morale. The film was These new courses are signs of the -f//; produced by Channel 4, arguably the most cap Faculty's progress in the teaching and able television network research directions it has set itself. In anywhere. The book teaching them, it will continue to explores the contortions of the British World- remember that it is teaching skills, as War II government in well as passing on subject matter. It its attempts to applaud hopes graduates will continue to show the Soviet war effort, while simultaneously both theoretical and practical skills, excluding British com and possess that humane knowledge munists from any that allows them to increase the value possible reflected glory of their own lives, and the lives of those around them. The Bachelor of Creative Arts graduating exhibi tion of students' work was both varied and exciting. Seen here with their exhibits are, from left, Cami Rojano, Ian Stevenson and Ray Bradshaw (chairman of the students' committee) 23 Faculty of Commerce An Economics lecture in F •"»»* progress. As the text of *i«i^ this report points out, quality of teaching in the Faculty of Commerce is considered paramount. The Lecturer here is Professor fackson n line with its stated policy of other areas wished to enrol in commitment to the pursuit of Commerce subjects. All were care I quality, rather than quantity, the fully screened and restrictions placed Faculty of Commerce for 1988 set an on the number of Commerce subjects entry quota of 270 students and did which could be studied by non- not authorise second-round offers. Commerce students, unless students Applications from school leavers had already met the equivalent entry nominating Wollongong's Bachelor of mark, or sought to undertake Commerce as their first preference specialisations in specified areas such for a course of tertiary study rose as Industrial Relations. In spite of over those of 1987 by a staggering 67 stringent requirements, 60 students per cent. If applications from met the standard and were permitted mature-age students are also taken to transfer into Commerce. into consideration, then overall first- The magnitude of successful transfers preference applications for the is a reflection of the many applica "WoUongong University Commerce tions received, a number which seems degree increased by 30 per cent. destined to rise as more aspirant Even allowing for higher retention Commerce students initially miss out rates in senior school and a growing on a place in the Faculty. awareness of the value of higher education in the community at large, Regulations relating to minimum rate this is a gratifying increase. of progress have also been more rigorously enforced, resulting in the As a result of the large number of exclusion of a number of students. applications it was necessary to raise Marginal cases were placed on the HSC cut-off mark to 320, the restricted programs, whereby admis highest entry aggregate for any of the sion to second-semester subjects is major degrees offered at the Univer contingent upon gaining clear passes sity. This represents an increase of in all first-semester subjects. 22 points on the previous year's minimum entry mark. The welcome result of all these The demand for studying Commerce measures has been an increase in the was not restricted to new students. number of satisfactory students and a A large number of appHcations was decline in the number of students received from students in otiier having to show cause as to why they faculties attempting to transfer into should be permitted to continue their Commerce, and many students in studies. 24 Faculty restructures to meet changing professionals managing information demands resources within an organisation. A In response to shifting emphases in similar specialisation may be taken the marketplace, the Faculty has by those studying towards a Master of initiated several striking changes. Commerce. Both courses will be Growing demand for computer taught by the newly created Depart expertise and skills useful to manage ment of Information Systems, one of ment has largely prompted these the products of a major internal changes. restructure of the Faculty. The joint venture between the Reputation of Commerce Faculty University and the Computations attracts overseas students Corporation in Sydney (reported In the past two years, the Faculty of elsewhere in this Report) aims to Commerce, in conjunction with the provide career training for the rest of the University, has attempted finance sector. An Australian multi national. Computations, designs and to penetrate the vast educational implements business systems for market within the Asian region. Our the international financial-services success has been substantial: over industry. The University will be 40 full-fee-paying undergraduate responsible for imparting the specific students and 15 full-fee-paying technological and vocational skills to postgraduate students were attracted personnel in the industry. "WoUongong in 1988 alone. The resulting gain in was chosen by Computations because revenue for the University is in the it was recognised as one of the major order of $500,000. centres for business and technology in It is anticipated that in the 1989 Australia. academic year, the Faculty will enrol The attractive campus duckpond is a favourite Management Information Systems is over 100 full-fee-paying meeting place for now available as a specialisation for undergraduates as well as 40 relaxing, quiet study students in the Master of Business postgraduate full-fee-paying students. between lectures. Close by is the University Union Administration course. The new The revenue expected to flow to the with its shopping mall, strand is being offered to give University as a result is likely to cafeterias and medical pertinent background for exceed $1,000,000. and dental services r.'^-«'J6 Faculty of Education estructuring of the Faculty other than in Education, who wish into two Schools led to a to qualify as teachers. This course R••clearer administrative struc continued to draw far more appli ture, with both Schools undertaking cants than could be accommodated, responsibility for the postgraduate with only 25 per cent of applicants program while the Faculty as a whole able to be accepted in 1988. It is retains management of planned to increase the intake for undergraduate programs. Two 1989. additional Professors of Education were appointed, with both taking up During 1988 the Faculty accepted duties in 1989. The position of Co students into the Postgraduate ordinator of Teacher Education Diploma in Educational Studies in Programs, at Associate Professor the areas of Reading/English as a level, was created and was filled late Second Language and Computers in in 1988. Education. In terms of student applicants, both programs continued The Faculty has an enrolment of over to draw well. 1,000 students with at least 250 of these undertaking postgraduate Undergraduate courses leading to the programs. In addition, a further 136 Bachelor of Education were collec students from other Faculties are tively fully subscribed, and the enrolled in undergraduate subjects change to published minimum entry offered by the Faculty. marks caused no concern to the The year saw a consolidation in Faculty. The Bachelor of Education courses offered in the postgraduate (Primary) drew over 120 students, the area. The Doctoral program con Bachelor of Education (Physical and tinued and it was pleasing to see that Health Education) enrolled 45 there was a steady increase in the students, while the Bachelor of number of inquiries and applications. Education (Secondry English/History) and the Bachelor of Education Master of Studies in Education (Secondary Mathematics) both underwent a dramatic change in acquired their planned intake figures. organisation and emerged as Master of Education. Students who are The Bachelor of Education currently enrolled in the Master of (Secondary Science) began in 1988 Studies in Education have the option and, while its intake was small, the of graduating with a Master of performance of students in the course Studies or, if they satisfy the was pleasing; the success rate was 80 academic requirements for the per cent. Master of Education, may choose Introduction of computer literacy as to graduate under that title. a required part of all Bachelor of There was a steady growth in the Education programs led to heavy number of students applying for demands on computing facilities , entry to Master degree courses. The and relevant staff in the Faculty. It is new Master of Education program obvious that this move has been allows for a pattern of study based highly successful. Students are either on the professional develop beginning to show their appreciation ment of the teacher or on research; of the value of computers in the the second is designed to enable educational process. students to proceed further to the Conversion courses leading to Master of Education (Honours). Bachelor of Education (Primary) con The Postgraduate Diploma in tinue to be fully subscribed and, in Education is specifically structured accordance with the suggestion in for holders of Bachelors degrees, the Government's White Paper the 26 WUtf^*'^''"''/*' • During 1988, former Director-General of the NSW Department of Education, Mr Robert Winder, accepted an appointment at The University of WoUongong within the Faculty of Education. Mr Winder's role was to teach a policy course entitled Education Policy in Australia. For a number of years Mr Winder served as a Commissioner of the Commonwealth Schools Commission Faculty began scaling down these Popularity of the Faculty's subjects courses with a view to having a final within the Bachelor of Arts con intake in 1990. tinued to be high, with these students undertaking the same first-year An opportunity for students to enter program in Education as students in an honours year was made available the various Bachelor of Education in all pre-service Bachelor of courses. Students who enrol in studies Education courses. A limited number in Education as part of the Bachelor of students will be undertaking the of Arts may continue in this subject fourth year of the Bachelor of area through the Master of Arts and Education (Primary) in 1989. This Doctor of Philosophy programs. opportunity was offered to approxi mately 25 very successful students in 1988 and three or four students will The Centre for Studies in Literacy undertake the honours program in within the Faculty has continued to 1989. This program is also available service the growing need for literacy for students in the Bachelor of education with its Literacy Assistance Education (Secondary) and (Physical Program available to all students and Health Education) areas. enrolled at the University. 27 .*?K2 Faculty of Engineering he 1988 academic year was a of establishing a common first year a busy one for the Faculty of for all engineering students. T Engineering. Several new areas One of the significant events for 1988 of research were initiated, while other was that the Department of areas continued to expand. Through Metallurgy and Materials Engineering out the year all Departments within completed its transition to Materials the Faculty improved and enhanced Engineering. The appointment of two both under-graduate and additional staff with non-metallics postgraduate programs. Students were expertise enabled the development of encouraged to improve their inter a properly integrated course which personal skills, particularly includes metals, ceramics and poly communication and presentation. mers. To highlight this transition and The mechanism for this was the to demonstrate the shift to an introduction of a Personal Tutorial engineering philosophy, the Depart System to support first- and second- ment proposed to change its name to year students. The Faculty also Materials Engineering. The change encouraged the development of will become effective from 1989. English and computer literacy at appropriate levels and attempted to The civil and mechanical courses increase students' awareness of the were reviewed by the Institution of importance of engineering subjects in Engineers in August and were all Departments within the Faculty. re-accredited. To promote this awareness and to To support the government's allow greater flexibility of choice by encouragement of women into non- students, the Faculty is in the process traditional areas, the Faculty held a Associate Professor Frank Paoloni (right) has a dis tinguished academic record. He has been a research member in the Plasma Physics labora tory, Princeton University, where in the 1970s he was involved in heating of thermonuclear plasma. Today he is a Reader in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer ing at WoUongong. He is seen here with a student in his laboratory 28 To encourage more women to study engineering, each of the four departments within the Faculty offers a bursary valued at $^00 to the female student enroll ing in the first-year, full program of the course, who has completed the HSC within the past two years and has obtained the highest HSC mark of those eligible. Winners in 1988 were, from left, Shiva Ghahreman (Civil and Mining), Elizabeth Sharp (Metallurgy and Materials Engineering) and Snezana Dragisic (Electrical and Computer) Women in Engineering seminar in National Key Centre for Teaching May. Female pupils from local, and Research in Mining, established Nowra and South Sydney schools, under a grant awarded by the and careers advisers and parents were Commonwealth government jointly to invited to attend. The aim of the the School of Mines, The University seminar was to present engineering as of NSW and the Departments of an option for women. To encourage Geology and Civil and Mining further women into engineering, each Engineering at The University of of the four departments offered, from WoUongong. 1988, a bursary worth $500 to the female student with the highest HSC The year saw the successful initiation aggfregate in the first year of the of two laboratories which have been course. The first-ever bursaries were the subject of a major technical awarded at the seminar. effort on the part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer A highlight of 1988 was the ing. The Microcomputer Laboratory, establishment of two Key Centres for which consists of networked PCs and Teaching and Research in the a file server, and is intended to train Faculty. One was the result of a students in computer hardware, soft collaborative effort between Auto ware and interfacing techniques, was mation and Engineering Applications successfully used by approximately Centre Ltd (AEAC), Electrical and 100 undergraduate students during Computer Engineering, Mechanical Session 2. At the same time, the Engineering and Computing Science. Power Electronics Laboratory began It was the Key Centre for Advanced to provide students with experience in Manufacturing and Industrial Auto the design of modern drive systems. mation (CAMIA) which received funding from the Commonwealth In a sense, 1988 marked the end of government. To enhance the develop an era for the Faculty. Professor B.H. ment of CAMIA, the Department of Smith, Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering appointed a Electrical Engineering and Head of Foundation Professor of Manufac the Department from May 1970 until turing Engineering. He will take up February 1987, retired in December. the position in 1989. The other Key With his retirement, the Faculty lost Centre involving the Faculty is the its first Dean. 29 m Faculty of Mathematical Sciences In the Department of intake into the first-year subjects. Computing Science during Part of the decline may be explained 1988 Dr Neil Gray ran a new course on object- by the rearrangement of some of the orientated programming. subjects; it is anticipated that the Dr Gray's special areas of previous numbers will be restored in interest include Machine Learning' and applications 1989, and steady growth be main of artificial intelligence tained thereafter (particularly applications in the field of chemistry). In the Department of Mathematics in He has degrees from the 1988, the numbers in first-year Imperial College, London, mathematics fell slightly, resulting in and Cambridge a drop back to three presentations instead of the four needed in recent years. At the other end of the teaching spectrum the Department had its largest honours class for a number of years, reflecting the growing interest and awareness of students in the benefits to be obtained from concentrations on mathematics. Reorganisation of first year, which n the Department of Computing will come into effect in 1989, Science, new staff members Dr includes in the second 100-level I J. Korczak, most recently from mathematics subjects the earlier the University of Strasburg, and Mr identification of the Applied A. Zelinsky from the School of Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Industrial and Administrative Studies, Statistics strands which lead to joined the Department in mid-year. specialisation in later years. In Dr Hille departed for ETH Zurich, addition, new 100-level subjects will home of Pascal and Modula 2, for be presented to students in the study leave. Faculty of Science. Dr Gray ran a new course on object- At third-year level, the subject orientated programming for post Operations Research was reintro graduate and senior undergraduate duced. The reorganisation of students in Session 2. The course Statistics subjects had proceeded covered, among other topics, the successfully and this specialisation is program development tools provided attracting a number of students into on the Macintosh. As part of this an area highly prized in the course, Dr Mowbray from OTC gave workforce. a series of lectures on the language C+-f. There has been increasing use of computer technology in a number of Software projects included text areas. As usual, Statistics and storage and retrieval systems on the Applied Mathematics subjects include Pyramid; inventory control systems large components of numerical work suitable for use by the Apple which is implemented on computers. Consortium built using ORACLE and In addition, word-processing SQL forms; a Macintosh Modula 2 packages are being utilised in the editor; a sonar simulator; and an on preparation of highly effective sets of line information system, which lecture notes and projector slides. cricket fans would appreciate, written Optical scanning and computer for the Apple Mac. marking and interpretation of tests Student numbers overall in the are also being successfully used as department declined by approxi part of the assessment in some mately ten per cent, despite a steady second-year subjects. 30 Biggest of the 'items' acquired by the Faculty of Science from Expo '88 is this futuristic HOTOL, donated by British Aerospace, It is to become a focal point of the innovative 'hands-on' Science Education Centre at Campus East Faculty of Science he Faculty of Science sees company, take them to the new itself as having a natural and building at Campus East. Formerly T leading role in the promotion a Commonwealth migrant hostel. of Science, both in the schools and in Campus East has been taken over by the community at large. For this the University and will be developed reason it is pleased to be associated mainly as a high-technology centre at with, and supportive of, the which the University will share establishment of a Science Education resources with industry. Centre. This will be an innovative, 'hands on' focal point, where people, Campus East lies several kilometres irrespective of age, will be able to from the University proper, and it is discover and experience the hundreds there that the Science Faculty of ways in which science enters our obtained one of the original high- everyday lives. domed buildings and began develop ing a science-education centre. Academics at the University and members of the Illawarra Science and Lecturer Glen Moore, to whom all Planetarium Society, observing from credit is due, is confident that the afar the dying weeks of Brisbane's 'hands-on' exhibits will eventually highly successful Expo '88, could well rival Canberra's highly popular be forgiven the urge to use a play on Questacon and even San Francisco's words and declare: Expo's dead; long Exploratorium, even though all the live Expo. preliminary work is being done by volunteers and most of the exhibits Working on the theory that few will be donated. exhibitors would have a use for their array of marvels once the show Historically the study of Geology, ended, WoUongong academics offered especially in the Illawarra region, has to dismantle them and, with the been associated with mining assistance of a local transport activities. And one of the principal 31 Winner of the Australian international variable-star monitoring European Awards Program program. But the telescope is not Scholarship, and awarded confined to a purely research role. a period of study at any Australian University, Public astronomy evenings are made facqueline Croke, a final- possible by mounting a television year PhD student from system and several monitors at the University College, Dublin, chose WoUongong. She telescope eye-piece. In September worked with Associate some 200 members of the public Professor Gerald Nanson attended a joint University/ in the Department of Geography Astronomical Society evening to view Mars at its point of closest approach to Earth. During the year it was decided that a new postgraduate degree program, the MSc in Technical Administration, would be introduced in 1989 —this as the result of a collaborative agree ment between the faculties of Science, Commerce and Arts. The objectives of the program are to prepare Science graduates who are achievements of this Faculty in 1988 in, or who are aspiring to, mana was the selection of the Department gerial positions in industry. By means of Geology as one of the three of appropriate projects in their native constituent departments of the Key science-specialisation, they will be Centre for Mines. This Centre has provided with the necessary ground been specially funded by the Federal ing in commercial and business government, initially for a period of studies; and they will have discussions three years, for the development of about the broader and social environ major new initiatives in education mental implications of technology, and research related to the mining and with industrially related science. industry. Initially the program will admit The Centre will play an important graduates in Biology, Chemistry and role in the evolution of the mining Physics; other Science Departments industry in Australia and in its ability are expected to join the program to cope with the often-conflicting later demands of the community and the In what is believed to be a first in Far right: during the year industry. Dr Rob Wkelan, Senior The Geology Department, through Lecturer in the Depart ment of Biology, was one the Key Centre, will strengthen its of the eight Australians already extensive links with industry selected for Fulbright in both teaching and research. Scholarships. The award would permit Dr Whelan A major emphasis will be placed on to spend six-months study distance-learning techniques as the leave in the USA in the first Centre program builds up. half of 1989. Basis for the award was a proposal During July a fully computer- centred on collaboration controlled 16in (0.4m) telescope was with colleagues at the University of Florida and installed in a dome on the roof of the San Diego State University Science Building for the Department in two areas: pollination of Physics. Manufactured in the technology and fire technology United States, the telescope is the first of its type to be placed in the southern hemisphere. It will be equipped with photometers and a CCD (charged coupled devices) camera to support both the Physics teaching arid research programs. It has already been used in a major 32 The fully computer- controlled 16in telescope is installed for the Department of Physics in a dome on the roof of the Science Building. Manufactured in the USA, the instrument is the first of its type to be placed in the southern hemisphere. Public astronomy evenings are possible by means of a television system and monitors at the telescope eyepiece. In September a joint University/ astronomical evening was held to view Mars at its point closest to earth Australia, the Department of was a major success and has Chemistry on 19 August 1988 hosted developed the capacity of the at the University an Industrial Department to respond to high- Interaction Symposium. Fourteen intensity demand for teaching at the representatives attended from a broad professional level. range of industrial organisations The Department of Chemistry in involved in chemical and pharma 1988 had an all-time record of nine ceutical development. Some came students in its Honours program. from as far away as Newcastle and The calibre of these students was Melbourne. The purpose of the demonstrated when two of them, meeting was to expose these Richard John and Peter Teasdale, organisations to the staff, ideas and were chosen from all over New South research activities of the Chemistry Wales to be among six honours Department and to explore the possi students to take part in the final of bilities of collaborative interaction for the annual chemistry student lecture mutual benefit. competition at the University of New The symposium was a resounding South Wales in October The Faculty success. Many useful contacts were and Department were delighted to established. A follow-up is planned learn that Peter Teasdale went on to for next year. win the competition, as the best honours student in Chemistry in New A special six-months' training South Wales. program in coal geology, geophysics, industrial minerals, mineralogy, It was also pleasing to note that igneous petrology and building several other Units in the Faculty, materials was provided by the in particular Community and Public Department of Geology in 1988 for Health, Human Movement, and ten professional geologists from the Biology reported significant increases Indonesian Ministry for Mines and in both the quality and quantity of Energy. This challenging program Honours and Postgraduate students. 33 RESEARCH he year saw the publication of the For stimulating this growth and encouraging an University's first truly comprehensive appropriate environment for research, much of TResearch Report, Fittingly, the Report the credit goes to the Board of Research and was released to coincide with the University's Postgraduate Studies, established by the first Open Day for Postgraduate Student University in 1986. The seeds then sown are Research, an occasion in itself noteworthy for now firmly rooted. The indicators of growth are the ability shown by the students not only for clearly seen in the higher level of research the way in which their work was displayed but activity, and the University's ability to attract in the polished, confident way in which they for its research programs regularly increasing handled verbal presentations. funding. In his introduction to the Research Report the The policies and the groundwork put in place Vice-Chancellor Professor Ken McKinnon by the Board of Research and Postgjraduate commented on the significant and dramatic Studies, linked to a highly qualified, youthful upsurge in research activity that has taken and energetic staff, carry the promise of a place within the University during the past few challenging and exciting future for research at years. this University. He cited two examples: one, the statistics Some reporting of research programs is given showed that Doctors of Philosophy candidates in the succeeding pages. It is not a fully enrolled at the University had more than comprehensive, fully detailed report, attempting doubled in the past five years; and two, the to cover all the research work carried out accounts figures showed that the amount of within the University. That has been done in identifiable research expenditure by the the Research Report 1987-88. Moreover, University, its research centres and associated research work within the University figures consultancy companies has more than doubled largely in the content of the University's weekly in the past three years, to an expenditure newspaper. Campus News, and in the University approaching $6 million. Gazette, which appears four times a year Nor do the ensuing pages include research publications. They, too, appear in the Research Report, Sources of research funding appear on pages 73 to 79. How to save $5,000 million a year ' I ""here are numerous potential areas of -•- practical application for the research into metallic glasses being conducted in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. The most striking example, probably, is the material's use in power transformers. It has been estimated that replacing all the power transformers in North America with glassy material cores would result in an energy saving alone of more than $5,000 million a year. Glassy alloys, then, are very much more than laboratory curiosities. They are a new and potentially important group of materials, produced by cooling from the liquid state at rates high enough to suppress the crystallisation processes normally encountered during freezing. With their frozen-in Hquid structure, these 34 materials have attractive characterists. Among Making life easier for patients and them are high strength, corrosion resistance, surgeons and outstanding magnetic properties. artoonists have over the years made much The cooling rates necessary really are high. C capital out of situations in which a patient Over one million degrees a second for most on an operating table, to all intents and iron-based materials, they are achieved by purposes unconscious, suddenly sits bolt ejecting a stream of molten alloy through the upright. In real life such a farce, while remote, narrow slot of a crucible on to the surface of a would be highly traumatic. steel drum spinning at 2,000 rpm. Provided the However, there have been situations in which conditions are closely controlled, the melt forms patients being operated on, under a local a puddle and a solid ribbon peels away from anaesthetic, have sneezed, or coughed, or the surface of the drum. flickered an eyelid, or suffered an involuntary The WoUongong research is concerned with the muscle movement, at the wrong time. crystallisation process and the possible use of That is why the use of muscle relaxants to metaUic glasses for biomedical applications. induce paralysis in patients is vitally important Collaborative work with Bioquest Ltd has in modern anaesthesia. It makes operations shown that some of the materials are capable safer for patients. And it provides correct of supporting the adhesion and growth of a operating conditions for surgeons. Research wide range of cells, among them bone and at the University of WoUongong has shown nerve cells. Together with their high strength that if the reaction of the relaxed patient to and excellent corrosion resistance, they could muscle stimulation is compared to that of an prove to be admirably suited for use in sensors unparalysed patient, it is desirable to maintain and transducers, and as substrates for high- paralysis at such a level that the relaxed density mass-cell culture. response is not less than ten per cent of the Researcher is Dr Gordon Delamore of the unparalysed response. It is possible to achieve Department of Metallurgy and Materials this manually but it makes heavy demands on Engineering. the anaesthetist. These are the reasons why an automatic system to control drug administration systems used in anaesthesia has been designed by the WoUon gong researchers. It is not yet, however, fully 35 In harness in the climate room in the Human Movement and Sports Science laboratories is Helen Williams, whose exercise responses are being measured by Dr Karen Chad. In the adjacent data- collection room (right foreground) is Associated Professor Frank Pyke (see Researching thermal stress) logical and mechanical variables, to study the correlates of fatigue experienced during prolonged work in the heat. The investigations are aimed at comparing the heat con ditions. This work follows on the investigations of Associate Professor Pyke and Mr Harry Fuller related to the effects of hot, humid conditions on lung ventilation. This work, funded by the Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy, developed. Further work to its user interface was completed as a means of determining is needed to make it more 'user friendly'. But radiological limits in uranium mines. when the system is further developed, and can The chamber will also be used in student make use of a personal computer, it holds laboratories to provide a better understanding promise of very considerable performance of the responses to exercise in hostile climates. and cost benefits to patients, anaesthetists This knowledge has application in many and surgeons. industrial, sporting and leisure environments in This research is being carried out in the which thermal stress has an effect on the Department of Electrical and Computer quality of human performance. Engineering by Professor Hugh Bradlow. Detecting the pathogen in plant materials itrus greening, a plant disease which Researching thermal stress C destroys fruit, has reached a severe level in ' I 'he installation of a climate chamber in the parts of Africa and Asia. The disease has not -•- Human Movement and Sports Science so far been detected in Australia. But there are laboratories is the centre-piece of a research fears that it could. Research in the Department program investigating the exercise responses to of Biology is aimed at preventing citrus both hot and cold conditions. The chamber greening reaching here —at finding diagnostic was partly funded from a University Research procedures which will aid quarantine inspec Grant obtained by Associate Professor Frank tions of diseased fruit in the countries where Pyke to study the acclimatisation of individuals 'greening' appears. to hot-dry and hot-humid environments. Very Studies to identify the disease and improve few climate chambers exist for this purpose in diagfnosis are being conducted in collaboration Australia. with scientists in the USA. This project is being The chamber measuring 5 x 3 x 2.5 metres, funded by the Food and Agricultural Organisa can be controlled at ambient temperatures tion of the UN. between 0-50 deg C. 'Subjects' exercising on The WoUongong research is being headed by bicycle ergometers or treadmills can be Professor Helen Gamett, whose team of monitored via a wall panel to instruments scientists has developed an antibody-based test. located in an adjacent data-collection room. Excellent news is that the test holds consider The subject can be viewed through two large able promise. windows and communicated with through an Professor Gamett, who has an impressive intercom system. international reputation, is working in other A research group from Human Movement and areas, too. Environmental biology is another of Sports Science and Psychology is developing a her research interests, in particular the effect of multi-disciplinary approach, involving measure the disturbance on water quality in the catch ment of physiological, biochemical, psycho- ment areas of WoUongong. 36 Microwave-kilns and ceramics technology ecturer in Ceramics, Mr Lindsay Duncan, is L heading a team of postgraduate students working on kiln, glaze and clay technology— two major themes in research in the area of ceramics in Australia. The team is working from various directions of ceramic technology to produce a range of fired work. Alan Peascod, a world authority on ceramic glazes, is researching microwave-kiln technology, in conjunction with the Technology Centre of the University. Leading kiln technologist, Stephen Harrison, is analysing the properties and the various effects on clay surfaces of different Australian timbers in wood-fired kilns, as compared with those of Japan. Lindsay Duncan is experimenting with carbon impregnation of clay and glazes using the combustion vapours from rubber and oil, combined with fuming of slumped and fused sheet glass. Jenny Thompson works with terra- sigilata and gold leaf on her large landscape forms, and Paul Counsel is using post-reduction firing techniques with copper-carbonate to coat Mr Lindsay Duncan, above, in his studio. He is clay surfaces. leading a team of postgraduate students researching kiln, glaze and clay technology Socio-political survey of Australian culture and ceramics Selenium poisoning among humans causes the The aesthetic product of all these processes loss of hair and nails, paralysis and disorders of spans ecological statements about the wastage the nervous system. Selenium compounds can of our natural resources, the conflict of interests enter the body, not only by ingestion, but also of the Australian black and white population, by inhalation, in which case they enter the and the gender conflicts of Australian male bloodstream by exchange across the lining of imagery in the light of the feminist literature. the lung. This last area on the gender-studies theme is in step with an international re-emergence of the Airborne selenium compounds occur as a result human figure in art, and especially a trend of the burning of wood and fossil fuels, and are towards large figurative ceramics. Documenta emitted to the atmosphere during the refining tion of ceramic art is also being carried out by of copper ores. Of particular interest is the this team to cover such trends, and to record a nature of selenium air pollutants around history of Australian ceramics in a changing WoUongong. It is thought that the refining of context, as traditional vessels give way to copper in the local area can produce four sculptural objects. different types of selenium pollution. The first is selenious acid, a water-soluble compound which is highly toxic. The second, The nature of selenium compounds in elemental selenium, is formed as a result of the airborne particles around WoUongong reaction of selenious acid with sulphur dioxide, Celenium is an element essential for life. It is a common air pollutant in the industrial areas ^ found in enzymes and is important for the of the Illawarra region. correct functioning of the liver In addition, Elemental selenium, insoluble in water is selenium compounds have recently been found thought to be non-toxic. Wind-blown ore to possess anti-cancer properties. Selenium in particles from stockpiles around the refinery site excess, however is toxic. Cattle grazing on provide the third form of selenium: metal selenium-rich plants develop 'blind staggers' selenides. Metal selenides may be toxic if and suffer from deformities to the hooves. ingested, as the selenide ion may be freed by Chickens fed on selenium-rich grain produce digestion. The final form of selenium in air chicks with birth deformities such as missing comprises volatile organic selenides. These eyes and beaks, and distorted wings and feet. compounds may be toxic —but little is known 37 about the nature of organic selenide pollution investigate these factors. High job demand and in air, particularly that arising from copper low decision latitude have been shown to be refining. related to the development of coronary heart symptoms and have been proposed as an As yet, no method exists to allow each form of independent risk factor No research has been selenium in air to be separately quantified. reported, however, which explores their Development of a method to allow the deter relationship with the presence of other mination of selenious acid, elemental selenium known factors such as hypertension, hyper- and metal selenides is currently being under cholesterolaemia and truncal obesity. In taken by the Department of Chemistry. It has addition to this objective assessment of work- been found that a water extraction step related stress, the researchers are looking at the quantitatively recovers selenious acid aerosols relationship between risk factors, subjective that have been collected on glass-fibre filters by reporting of stress levels and lay definitions of air filtration. Currently, an assessment is being stress. made of the efficiency of a carbon disulphide extraction for the recovery of elemental Lay definitions and perceptions are being selenium. Metal selenides will be recovered investigated by a questionnaire of 100 semi- from glass-fibre filters by acid digestion of the structured interviews designed to elicit the main residue once selenious acid and elemental lay categories of explanation. Data are being selenium have been removed. Following gathered by means of a public-risk-factor verification of the completed method, field screening program in the Illawarra —a process samples will be taken which will allow a more begun in February 1988. accurate assessment of the nature of selenium The researchers are Associate Professor pollutants in air and the toxicological Christine Ewan and Professor Dennis Calvert in implications for the WoUongong area. the School of Health Sciences, and Professor The researchers are Mr Greg Gehm, a PhD David Griffiths of the Department of candidate, and Dr Phil Crisp in the Mathematics. Department of Chemistry. Engineers combat Legionnaires' Disease Stress and heart disease ' I ""he University played a leading role during Although stress and the development of -*- the outbreak of Legionella in WoUongong -^*- coronary heart disease are widely linked in in 1987. In collaboration with Purotec Pty Ltd, today's society the strength of the relationship is the Department of Mechanical Engineering has ill-defined. A review of stress and cardio since then developed an ozone generator, lethal vascular disease conducted by the National to Legionella bacteria, for use in air- Heart Foundation has, however, noted that conditioning cooling towers in public buildings. some research points to the fact that risk is The successful design operates on electricity increased by high-demand jobs—jobs which call only, and thus without environmental side for important decision-making. The review effects of harmful chemicals. The generator has concluded, however, that further research was been successfully tested at a cooling tower in needed before guidance could be provided for the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories. Ozone preventative and clinical practice. has been found to be among the most reliable In the public eye, stress —and work-related methods of killing Legionella. Other successful stress in particular —is seen as a cause of heart methods use highly corrosive and toxic disease. The belief is that modern industrial chlorinations in very high concentrations. and urban environments are inherently stressful The tests showed the generator's ability to kill and that little can be done, by people who Legionella on contact and to maintain the work, to avoid or alleviate that stress. Scientific tower continually at safe purity levels. The explanations for the relationship include research was carried out by Dr John psychological and sympathomimetic Montagner. mechanisms and social-cultural effects mediated through consumption patterns. The purpose of research at WoUongong is to Completing the circle erms such as cold deformation, fatigue T recrystallisation, plasticity, fracture, creep, toughness and crack growth are part of the vocabulary of the world of engineering. 38 What do they mean? To a team of researchers in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering they refer to the mechanical behaviour of engineering materials and materials processing. And these, in turn, are seen in the broad areas of specialisation expected to come more into focus in the future under market forces. The two areas concern the mechanical behaviour of engineering materials, and materials processing. The terms above fall into the first category. The second, materials processing, embraces blast-furnace performance, coal and coke structure, and the porosity of particulates. Research into fabrication has shown that new galvanising treatments offer great commercial possibilities. But a good deal of interaction inevitably invades the two fields. Galvanising has expanded to embrace other forms of surface coating. Two of these are polymers on metals and ceramics on metals. Research to evaluate performance on coated metals has introduced assessments of mechanical properties. Monica Bufill It is important that the link between process- property and application is complete. Research fellowship for Monica Bufill The eyes have it he Australian Water Research espite the fact that some 80 per cent of T Advisory Council (AWRAC) has D elderly people suffer from eye cataract, Dr announced the award of a three-year Roger Truscott's laboratory in the University of research fellowship to Ms Monica Bufill, WoUongong is alone in Australia in seeking to currently a PhD candidate in the discover its cause. Having achieved that, the Department of Civil and Mining next step would, of course, be to find a cure Engineering. AWRAC is the body that other than the present one, which involves advises the Commonwealth Government surgical removal of the lens. on water research by identifying priority areas where water research capacity But what does it feel like to suffer from senile needs to be supported. cataract? The ailment, characteristically, The research project that has been surfaces as a clouding of the lens of the eye, funded will study methods for predicting impairing vision to the extent that reading the effects of urbanisation on water becomes very difficult. Senile cataract, quantity and quality. The Department unchecked, can lead to blindness. of Civil and Mining Engineering will The research at WoUongong University is being host Ms BufiU's research; she will be carried out in collaboration with Dr Stephen working closely with Dr M. Boyd and Pyne's group, whose expertise lies in Organic Dr M. Sivakumar. Synthesis and Structure elucidation in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer At present Ms Bufill holds a University of WoUongong scholarship and is There are other collaborative groups —for completing the final stages of her PhD example, the Department of Clinical degree. She graduated with an ME in Opthamology, the University of Sydney and the Civil Engineering at the University of Save the Sight and Eye Health Institute. Buenos Aires, and then worked for the Human lenses come from the Sydney Eye National Institute of Water Science and Hospital and the Illawarra Private Hospital. Technology (Argentina). Ms Bufill later Other support comes in the form of a grant completed a MSc degree in Engineering from the Medical Research Council of Hydrology at Imperial College, London. Australia. 39 Advanced metal/matrix composites project, directed by Associate Professor Nick Standish, to investigate bulk density of coal as a here is today a world-wide demand for high function of coal-particle size. Bulk density, or T strength, lightweight, corrosion-resistant mass per unit volume of a bulk material, is an metals vdth improved high-temperature important parameter in coal export operations, properties of aluminium-based composites. such as stacking, reclaim and loading of ships. Metal/matrix composites of aluminium/silicon Clearly, exporters neither wish to under-supply carbide (Al/Sic) offer the potential for excellent nor over-supply their customers, so the accurate structural materials in a wide range of measurement of large amounts of coal stock is applications. very important. Metal matrix composites enjoy property advantages over present organic matrix Studies of the packing of granular mixtures composites in temperature capabilities, have been going on in the Department of environmental stability and design flexibility in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering since joining. Al/Sic composites are well known as 1978. They have recently culminated in the high-tech material for aircraft structures and establishment of a theory of the random structural members for superfast trains (Rapid packing of particles. Noting that packing of Transit Systems such as are to be seen in Japan, particles is directly related to bulk density France, Canada and the US; Australia is confirms the relevance to practice of what may planning such a system now), since these metal at first sight appear to be a complex theoretical matrix composites, due to their lower density inquiry. The fact that in the course of the and higher stiffness, significantly contribute to experimental work associated with this inquiry, valuable savings in weight. Then, too, Al/Sic innovative and practical experimental methods composites are a focus of attention because of were developed for sampling and analysis of their potential in compressor blades in gas- granular materials, was a strong factor in the turbine engines, and for structural components final decision of awarding the grant to The in high-temperature environments. Research University of WoUongong. into high-temperature deformation of these materials has become an area of considerable technological importance. Bricks from coal.' Dr Tara Chandra is currently involved in a •JVyTany years ago, certainly in northern study of the high-temperature deformation -i-y-i- countries in which coal fires were characteristics of two-phase Al/Sic composites. commonplace, bricks made from compressed His research has attracted interest from overseas coal dust were almost as familiar as coal itself. as well as in Australia. Alcan, the giant But these bricks —they were called briquettes — Canadian company, has supplied expensive were for burning, and certainly not for material for preliminary research and, building. stimulated by Dr Chandra's findings of the behaviour of the composites at elevated Now, however, signs arising from research being temperatures, Comalco Australia Limited is carried out in the Department of Civil and also keen to participate. Mining Engineering are that building bricks made using crushed coal-wash as feedstock This research has been initiated and carried could eventuate. Bricks have already been made out only at this University. Testing facilities using crushed coal in place of shale. Research have been designed and developed by Dr by Civil and Mining Engineering, in a joint Chandra, and his colleague Mr Malcolm venture with Austen Butta Ltd and Boral Atkinson, in the Department of Metallurgy Bricks, is only one of half a dozen projects and Materials Engineering. involving materials used in building. This research is assisted with NERDDC funding of $57,000. Making it $1 million Another area of research concerns the use of fluidised 'bed combusted' by-products for use in he announcement in November of a concrete. This project has attracted some T NERDDC grant of $275,000 for coal bulk- $10,000 from the Department of Energy for a density investigations placed the Department of pilot study. What happens is that when coal Metallurgy and Materials Engineering in the $1 waste is burned the material reduces in volume million class of research funding received in and produces a fine ash and a coarse fraction. 1988. The ash has been found to have possibilities as The end-of-year grant was for a one-year an aggregate in concrete. 40 WBt^mtij. •••*' Towards the end of March 1988, the Microwave Applications Research Centre received from Muswellbrook Energy and Minerals Ltd a $1 million investment for research. Seen here at the signing of the agreement are, front row, the Vice-Chancellor Professor Ken McKinnon and Mr Norton Jackson, who heads the mineral products division of Muswellbrook. Behind them are Professor Ian Chubb, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Research), Professor Howard Worner, CBE, head of the Microwave Applications Research Centre, and Mr Jim Langridge, the University Business Manager Research Centres There are now 12 Research Centres The Research Centres are operating in the University. They were * Automation & Engineering established as a practical means of Applications Centre bridging the gap between fundamental * Centre for Applied Biology research undertaken by the University, * Bulk Materials Handling Division and applied research of the type * Microwave Applications Research required by business, industry and the Centre community. * New Literatures in English Research The work of the Research Centres is Centre described in detail in the Research * Centre for Materials Report 1987-88 and will of course be * Centre for Mining Research updated in the Research Report for * Centre for Multicultural Studies 1988-89. * Centre for Studies in Literacy * Centre for Technology and Social Change * Centre for Transport Policy Analysis * Centre for Work & Labour Market Studies 41 SPECIAL PROJECTS Business and Technology Complex number of moves —many of finally manufacturing and marketing, them likely to have far- for domestic and export markets. A•• reaching effects on the The advantages — and the promise — University and the Illawarra in the of such a complex are intense. The years ahead—were made during the most obvious is the ease with which course of 1988. They included special projects can be instigated and finalising of plans for the for which support facilities are establishment of a Business and available in the University. Technology Complex; a joint venture Significant examples are science with Computations—an Australian laboratories, computers, specialised multinational company—to provide scientific equipment —and, of course, career training for the finance sector; the major advantage of day-by-day and a centre for the teaching of interaction with the University English to overseas students. An community. Already moves have been International Office was set up as made to attract overseas involvement part of the Planning and Marketing in the complex. The University's unit with the aim, primarily, of Business Manager, Mr Jim Langridge, attracting full-fee-paying foreign has made contact with business students to study in WoUongong. leaders in the US and Britain and Most ambitious of these projects is a inspected similarly based—and highly science park, which will be based at successful —facilities linked with what has become known as Campus universities in Scotland and England. East or, more accurately now, the site Site of the proposed complex. of The University of WoUongong Campus East, is a satellite of the Business and Technology Complex — main campus. It comprises an area Phase II. A strip of land close to the of 13 hectares, owned by the University, Campus East has been University. It is only minutes away purchased with the intention of from the WoUongong Central attracting high-tech industries from Business District, and main-road and overseas countries. rail links to Sydney—and as a plus University-industry collaboration has for executives and their employees become something of a watchword at living at present in cold, grey-sky WoUongong. In recent years the climates, the complex is close to some University has established an enviable of the best beaches in Australia. reputation in recognising the importance of close links, particularly The combination of the site's physical in areas of technology and of advantages and the University's research and development. Evidence commitment to active co-operation of this is seen in the formation of with the commercial sector makes it 12 research centres under the aegis of more than an attractive proposition the University. Each of these centres for any company considering expand has a specific area of concentration, ing its operations in the WoUongong and each aims to develop products area, or entering it for the first time. and processes which have direct In many ways the University has applied and commercial application. always been closely linked to business It is a natural progression to build on and industry. Initially it provided a these centres by means of a purpose- centre of higher learning for the built complex which can be used by people of the NSW South Coast the private sector to undertake region, particularly serving the research, design development and educational needs of those entering 42 ''S^fit*JB^^JM'i. Architect's drawing of the impressive Conference Centre and Hotel, to adjoi the Business and Technology Centre at Campus East. The architects are Graham, Bell and Bowman the industries which give the region Council an economic development its financial base —BHP's steelmaking office to assist new industry. plant and associated industries Recognising that time is a valuable centred in the adjoining town of Port commodity in the world of com Kembla. merce, development proposals are WoUongong has all the characteristics considered without delay. These City to foster economic development in Council attributes are strengthened new technologies. Far from being by the active assistance willingly given overshadowed because of its by local members of the State and proximity to Sydney, WoUongong uses Federal parliaments. this apparent drawback and has Criteria for companies seeking to be achieved a steady increase in the relocated at the complex include the pace of growth that has established type of production technology of the it as one of the major engines of firm (eg, no heavy or large-scale economic growth in the nation. manufacturing on site); the The City Council is anxious to sophistication of the technology base facilitate new development, and with of the firm (eg, computer and a strong and experienced Lord electronic products manufacture, Mayor has managed to attract a software development, research number of new building and indus divisions of pharmaceutical firms, trial developments to the area. This genetic engineering); government is largely a result of strong co regulation on environmental factors; operation between the City Council existence of complementary or related and those who seek to strengthen the industries in the region; availability city by taking their new developments of skilled and unskilled labour in to its environs. There is within the the region; the professional and 43 academic expertise associated with The access which company staff will the complex and whether industry enjoy, in relation to the sporting, activity is matched by an appropriate social and cultural activities of the discipline in the University. University community, provides a much more stimulating and enjoyable Finance and management work environment than would be The University will manage the possible in other situations. Such complex through a University informal contact also helps company Corporation with representatives of staff to keep informed of the most other interests on the Board of recent advances in their fields. Directors. Parcels of land will be It will be a culmination of the leased into company or joint-venture initiatives undertaken in an effort structures to allow a variety of means to develop and maintain links of financing and constructing build between the University, business and ings. Buildings will be provided by industry. It is in the best interests of grants from governments (federal, all parties involved (and the nation) state or local), a combination of for enhanced co-operation in all grants and loans, joint or private areas of research and development. ventures. Benefits to the University As well as housing research and Although an economical rent will be development facilities the complex charged, the income is not the reason will offer a full conference centre and for the establishment of the complex. hotel facilities. These will comple The presence of companies and their ment the School of Tourism which staffs broadens the horizon of will be established as part of the academic life. It will help maintain a complex. close understanding between the Development of the complex is sup University and industry, so benefiting ported by all levels of government teaching programs, in both type and and private industry. content, and at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As the relevancy Benefits to companies and applicability of teaching pro The benefits to companies which grams are maintained, the University decide to participate in the project will benefit by attracting the brighter are many. The costs involved in students, thus further enhancing its obtaining access to scientific reputation. libraries and specialised equipment The University could also benefit by are high and may otherwise be quite expanding its involvement with the uneconomic for individual organisa private sector in joint research tions. Such costs can be reduced programs and in the area of contract markedly through involvement in research. Such involvement provides a such a complex; co-operative research stimulus to academic staff to main in specific areas can reduce such tain an edge on the academic costs even more. enterprise. And this aids both their Co-operative efforts act to stimulate teaching and their motivation in technologists in the performance of identifying areas of research which their work, thus providing an have direct industrial applications. It increase in the quantity and quality also helps in the identification of of results obtained. Participants in applied problems which require the complex will be in a unique further research. position in being able to access The reciprocal actions of non- expertise through the personnel academic staff being exposed to available within the University—staff seminars and lectures on the latest and students. Companies will there developments in their areas, and the fore be able to identify the most possibility of guest lectures being promising postgraduate and under given by staff from private enterprise graduate students —a factor which to reveal different points of view and will place them in a favourable experience, also benefit the University position to recruit graduates. as a whole. 44 IM-U Career training for the finance sector he University's joint venture with WoUongong University was chosen by the Australian multinational Computations because it was T company. Computations Pty recognised as one of the major centres Ltd, was officially declared open by for business and technologfy in the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ken Australia. McKinnon, at a function in Sydney towards the end of November. The Company designs and implements business systems for the international English language services industry. courses for overseas The purpose of the joint venture is to students provide a commercial fee-paying institute which will be located at North Sydney to promote four levels of he centre for the teaching of education and training for people English to students from T overseas countries was entering the finance sector established in mid-year. Its full title is Behind the venture are Mr Ian Carter, The WoUongong English Language general manager of WoUongong Centre in The University of Uniadvice Ltd, the research/consulting WoUongong. arm of the University, and Dr Michael Hough, head of the School of The Centre's Managing Director is Industrial and Administrative Studies. Professor Peter Rousch, a Deputy Vice- They will be responsible for the Chancellor of the University and, control and accreditation of the appropriately, an acknowledged education and training programs, authority in the teaching of English. including the recruitment of academic Professor Rousch is, for example, a staff. Computations for its part will consultant to the International provide training for the students who Development Program on Teaching will become tomorrow's financial English as a Second Language. He has services-information technologists. The been a consultant to the Australian course will cater specifically for people Vice-Chancellors' Committee on seeking the specialised skills required English Language Teaching in South- for entry into what ranks among the East Asia. And, added to this. most highly competitive areas of Professor Rousch has made many visits international banking, insurance and to overseas countries —particularly to similar-category institutions. South-East Asia —so that he has what might well be a unique understanding The need for such an institute was of the needs of language learners from recognised by Computations, which our near-neighbour countries. saw growth restricted because of a shortage of skilled people in its own Students will have access to the field and other areas of financial University's modern library and management. This was particularly so Curriculum Centre. The most relevant in Australia, which is the base for and modern methods of instruction most of its research and development will be used, with particular stress on work. A period of intensive research reading, writing and listening. showed that the tertiary education The Centre is being operated by system today, already stretched, was WoUongong Uniadvice Limited. not in a position to provide the specialised training required. What was needed was a combination of academic and vocational skills. Discussions with The University of WoUongong began early in the year 45 ACADEMIC AND ALLIED SERVICES Dean of Students the Paper's emphasis on equity and efficiency; and (d) discussions with Faculty Deans n previous years one of the more time- leading to the introduction of a campus-wide consuming duties of the Dean of Students system of individual student 'tutoring'. has been to chair meetings of the I In addition to these activities the Dean also Academic Review Committee, mainly hearing continued to provide a neutral and informed appeals by students against assessment source of advice for students (and even some decisions. As a result of the implementation of staff) from all faculties who felt they had a new procedures designed to enable students to grievance but did not know how to proceed to resolve such matters at the level of academic resolve it, who do not know how to find their unit, without resort to formal appeal, it is way through the regulatory maze, or who pleasing to report that in 1988 the Academic simply want to talk to someone else about Review Committee was required to meet on only a very few occasions and then, mostly, to problems impacting upon their study programs. deal with problems arising in the postgraduate With the appointment of Sub-Deans in each rather than the undergraduate sector It is Faculty, however, there should be a greatly hoped that these initiatives, in conjunction with reduced need for this role, thus freeing up the the preparation of advisory material on assess Dean's time for other activities including, ment practices and procedures, circulated to perhaps, some participation in schools liaison the Heads of all academic units early in 1988, and student attraction. will lead to permanent improvements in these areas. It also seems probable that the system for identifying students at 'academic risk' early Aboriginal Education Unit enough in their careers to do something about preventing them from falling foul of the n conjunction with the Faculty of Unsatisfactory Progress regulations has begun to Education, the Aboriginal Education bear fruit. The full impact of this early- I Unit (AEU) co-ordinated an Aboriginal warning system, now routinely managed by the Studies elective which was offered to Graduate Faculty Sub-Deans in association with the Diploma in Education students. Student Administration Branch, would become The AEU also co-ordinated an Aboriginal more clearly apparent when the 1988 final Studies course with the community-based examination results became available. University of the Third Age group. Other initiatives during the year include (a) the development of a first draft of a 'Code of Various members of the staff carried out Ethics' for students and, by inference, staff numerous lecturing duties, within the Faculties members at the University. The code attempts of Art, Education and Science, with the to identify basic educational and human 'rights' purpose of emphasising and enhancing of students as well as their responsibilities (to Aboriginal perspectives in departmental course the University, themselves, staff, other students, structures. the community); currently this draft is being Tutoring and other forms of academic refined for reconsideration in the light of assistance, especially in the Social Sciences, comments from Faculty Deans and other were provided to Aboriginal students by the interested groups and individuals; (b) developing AEU Tutor a submission seeking budgetary support for a program of R & D in the field of Teaching and Students had access to word-processor and Learning Innovation and the establishment of other audio-visual facilities in the Students Awards for Teaching Excellence; (c) the prepara Room. tion of a detailed review of the implications of The AEU co-ordinated and administered two the White Paper on Higher Education for the AEA programs. The program's objective is to University's procedures and practices in such broaden Aboriginal participation in tertiary areas as the attraction, advising, teaching and education, by assisting in entry to University supporting of students, with special reference to through channels other than those offered by the mainstream system. 46 ' r f^^.K^/tit^?'^^¥^^J^^-^^^.^y^L' At the start of Aboriginal Week in September members of the Aboriginal Education Unit raise the Aboriginal flag. Pictured are Carol Speechley, Mr Bob Randall and Yvonne de Vriese An AEA program, held in October, was on natural goods, medicine and the production specifically geared towards mature-age of artefacts. A documentary, 'How to Set up a participants. Another program (to be held in Small Business', will be produced from this January 1989) will be catering to Higher School project. Certificate leavers. The Unit's research work contributes towards Assessments are designed in a way which is the support of Aboriginal students by providing culturally and socially sensitive to Aborigines. a data base of study material with which In addition to the numeracy and literacy assess Aboriginal students can identify. ments, participants are being interviewed by a panel which includes an academic staff The AEU organised and participated in inter- member of the University. campus/community activities such as Heritage A substantial body of resources —books (630), Week, National Aborigines Week and Multi educational video documentaries (79), tradi cultural Week. These activities received wide tional Aboriginal artefacts (54) and tape local media publicity. It was estimated that recordings —were accessible to all students and 1,000 people participated in the Heritage Week staff of the University. The ALU's resources activities. were also frequently utilised by members of the A bi-monthly newsletter. The Message Stick, wider community. was distributed to Aboriginal organisations Through the efforts of its Research Officer the across the country. The Message Stick is a voice AEU has been engaged in compiling local of not only the AEU and Aboriginal students Aboriginal history data, with particular on campus, but also of the wider Aboriginal emphasis on Aboriginal oral history on the community in the Illawarra. Non-Aboriginal south coast of NSW. The AEU has produced input into The Message Stick, especially by the original material in the form of print, video academic staff, increased substantially in 1988. and slides, all of which are available to the University and community and readily The AEU attempted to raise Aboriginal accessible at the AEU. Cultural Awareness both at the campus level and within the wider WoUongong community. Research has begun on a series of documen AEU staff conducted cultural awareness pro taries, investigating various areas in which grams at 43 local primary, secondary and Illawarra Aborigines have been involved. infant schools. Local Aboriginal history is Another research project under way is a film highlighted together with stimulating under- 47 standing and appreciation of Australia's rich Macintoshes, IBM clone PCs and terminals to Aboriginal cultural heritage. the backbone cable. With the objective of encouraging Aborigines The main aim for 1988 was to connect at least to pursue tertiary studies at The University of one major computing facility for each request WoUongong, the AEU actively engaged in visits ing department. to High Schools and Aboriginal communities in This meant connecting existing local networks the regions around and within the Illawarra. rather than individual units. By the start of Such drives have been conducted in Eden, Session One, 1989, the Departments of Bega, UUaduUa, Moruya, Nowra, Sydney and Mathematics, Computing Science, Electrical WoUongong. and Computer Engineering, Psychology, Aboriginal students enrolled in 1988 totalled Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Mining 25. Of those 21 were undergraduates and four Engineering will all have connections. Two postgraduates. One student graduated in 1988 student PC laboratories. Computer Services, and six were expected to graduate in 1989. The Administration and Library Services will also total number of Aborigines who have so far be connected. graduated from the University is 12. Software Support Group as project manager A new departure for the Software Support Group in 1988 was to the area of project management. In January, a part-time pro grammer was employed to work on a research Computer Services project on mine-explosion simulation funded by NERDDC (National Energy Research Develop f all the activities of 1988, the most ment and Demonstration Council) to the interesting are the Campus Area Department of Civil and Mining Engineering O Network developments and the and the NSW Department of Industrial initiatives taken in software support for the Relations (Mines Safety). The roles of the Academic Departments. For the Campus Area Software Support Group are to collaborate in Network a backbone fibre-optic cable was laid east-west through campus, linking most of the the research and to provide supervision and buildings that contain significant computing resources for the programmer. activity. Software migration Following the backbone installation, a major With the change in emphasis from the central effort by both the Hardware and Software 1100 computer to smaller and more cost- Support Groups of Computer Services has been effective computers, workstations and PCs, the evaluation, testing and debugging of significant time and effort have been devoted various networking products for connecting by the Software Support Group to addressing Main aim of Computer Services in 1988 was to conned at least one major computing facility for each requesting department. And with the change in emphasis to smaller computers, significant lime and effort were devoted by the Software Support group to the needs of users in the area of software migration and to software development the needs of users in the area of software mignration and in the development of software specifically for the new machines. Of particular note in this regard are: a) The migration of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated) chips design package, developed at the University of New South Wales to the Apollo workstations. b) The migration of the UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) process simulation package from the 1100 to the Sequent UNIX computer. c) The development of parallel algorithms for explosion simulation on transputer arrays. Conservatorium of Music tudent development achieved a higher public profile in 1988 than in any S previous year The annual Conserva Conservatorium of Music attracts students of virtually any age. This Open Day picture shows an extremely torium Scholarships were for the first time young performer at the grand piano awarded by public recital. Performances were acclaimed by the visiting panel of adjudicators and the public alike. Student successes in reaching competition finals, both inside and outside the region, in Training Program for preschool age children. some cases carrying off the major awards, The 'research by observation' component is reflect favourably on staff and students. While gradually refining its processes and some not being the first, it was pleasing to learn that confidence is developing over the assessment yet another Conservatorium student auditioned procedures for selecting a music study form for successfully for entry to the Australian Youth a young child. Orchestra. A further student is yet to do so for September 10 saw the launching of the Con entry to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. servatorium BHP Steel Symphony Training Conservatorium students presented several Orchestra in the WoUongong Performing Arts recital programs for the WoUongong Chopin Centre. Consisting of almost 60 players, the Society, which is sponsored by the Travers orchestra included in its program the Sibelius Foundation. Assisted by the Friends of the Karelia Suite Op. 11 and the Beethoven 5th University, several of the students accompanied Symphony. The success of this occasion by two staff members attended and participated proposes an ongoing association of interests in the Inaugural Chopin Competition program between the Conservatorium and BHP Port of events held in Melbourne during May. Kembla. In response to a Conservatorium initiative over The Conservatorium policy on student the trauma many musicians experience from orchestral direction brought about yet another performing, the University Psychology Depart success in November with the combining of the ment formulated, as a research program, a University Conservatorium Show Band and pilot scheme involving 16 Conservatorium members of the string section of the BHP students. The thrust of this project has been Orchestra in a jazz program featuring several of directed at personal stress management. While the country's best jazz artists. The event ended the results are still to be correlated and a very successful year of concerts, including one assessed, indications are of a positive nature tour for the Show Band. and promise to be of value for the future Although the Conservatorium is staffed by part- development of student performance. time tutors, considerable kudos has been As in previous years, so for 1988, intense public achieved for the institution. interest has centred on the Pre Music Literacy Papers were delivered at several international/ 49 national conferences held in Australia during increasing numbers of staff that EEO is for 1988. everyone, and does not only look after the interests of particular target-group members. Staff leave of absence has been approved for The Unit was kept busy during the year giving overseas study tours in 1989. One such advice and help to staff from all areas of the appointment is that of Visiting Fellow in the University on a wide range of issues which Music Department of Vienna University. affect their career paths, as well as assisting The Conservatorium continues to operate under with grievance resolution. an Interim Board of Management and at the end of the year awaited further development on future directions for the Conservatorium arising from recommendations formulated by a External Studies Division Committee of Review. n 1988, 663 new and continuing students enrolled in the seven courses offered I at diploma and degree levels. The figure Equal Employment Opportunity of 663 was slightly lower than the correspond ing figure of 730 who enrolled in the previous he year saw the continuation of a year and comprised 372 new and 280 positive EEO program. A number of continuing students across the two sessions. T exciting initiatives were undertaken. In Staff/student contacts March, an open forum was held on 'Improving the Participation of Women in Academic Life New students were required to attend an initial at the University of WoUongong', which sought orientation and continuing students were to identify long- and short-term barriers, and encouraged to attend orientation days so that develop strategies of addressing the low they could meet teaching staff. In February, proportion of female academic staff 200 students attended orientation for one day at the University. An Academic Women's and in July 230 students attended for one day Co-ordinating Committee was formed to advise also. and assist in developing and implementing Students visited the University Library, the strategies to generate change. Staff development University Co-op Bookshop and were provided and information networks were initiated. with a student identification card permitting With 37.4 per cent of general staff women on-site library borrowing. working part time in 1987, it was appropriate Additional seminars and study days were held to review the conditions of part-time staff. A for nine subjects in Session I and five subjects committee was established and has developed in Session II. an information brochure, outlining part-time Students in the Bachelor of Education (Physical benefits and conditions. This included and Health Education) Conversion Course improved benefits such as the availability of were required to attend two compulsory study time on a proportional basis. vacation schools, in April and July, according The Disability Committee in co-operation with to stages reached in their course. the University architects was able to gain acceptance by the University of an improved Staff code for disabled access in new construction, Jeff Hazell, Head of External Studies Division, continuing a steady improvement in the aware retired on July 30. ness of all concerned of the need to consider these matters in building and planning. Feedback Advice to and from students was provided Finally, in line with the University's commit through the External Studies Newsletter, issued ment to creating a harmonious and productive five times during the year Supplementing this workplace, five members of staff were selected were correspondence, telephone and personal following comprehensive training to serve as contacts, and an answering-service facility, all grievance mediators for a period of two years. providing essential and continuous links Formal grievance-handling procedures were between students. External Studies Division staff developed for mediators and supervisors and an and teaching staff. information brochure was prepared for distribution to all staff. One of the most pleasing features of the EEO program has been the realisation of ever- 50 6S> _'^. y"%'-^BB3i Friends of the University he Friends of the University of WoUongong Ltd reached the end of T its formation period in 1988 with the recruitment of BHP Steel International as the 1,000th member, and the Bert Flugelman Bicentennial Lawrence Hargrave Sculpture on the theme of flight was completed at a total value of $120,000. Major sponsors for this art commissioning were the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the NSW Bicentennial Council, Mr Franco Belgiomo Nettis of Transfield and Illawarra Newspaper Holdings Ltd. The Friends organisation has proved its viability as a University-support facility with valuable involvement by the local community. In recent years the pioneering work and the success of the Friends organisation has been widely acknowledged in the Australian University Community, with the Executive In the library—high-tech and old literature. Neil Officer addressing two national conferences of Cairns, Systems Librarian, and Felicity McGregor, Technical and Circulation Services Librarian, use a the Australian Institute of Tertiary Educational microcomputer to catalogue the Passmore Collection Administrators (AITEA); the University Infor mation Officers' Conference; two conferences of Alumni officers; the Council of the University In contrast with the existing building. Stage 3 of Technology; the Australian Defence Forces emphasises light and colour Maximum use has Academy and the ACT Branch of AITEA. been made of windows as a means of providing The future structure and function of the a pleasant, inviting study environment. During Friends is now under review. It is likely that the the building program, opportunity was taken to Friends organisation will dissolve itself as a renovate the entrance to the Library. A feature separate company, and will in future be more of the new entrance is a large leadlight window closely integrated into the University depicting 12 native Australian birds. The Administration's marketing and public-relations window was designed and crafted by Albie arm. Lenartes, a member of the University staff. The highly successful 1988 University Open Day Following the publication of the Australian was an illustration of the benefits that accrue government's policy on higher education, many when the Friends join forces with the University of the management issues already under review officers concerned with community relations. within the Library were given greater emphasis. By the end of the year a system of performance The founding Executive Officer of the Friends, management had been introduced and strategic Giles Pickford, resigned towards the end of the planning extended to take into account the year to take up a position at the Australian University's academic profile. National University. Despite 1988 being a period of stagnant funding, the University Library did not need to cancel journal subscriptions and was able to improve many of its services. This was possible due to the dedication of Library staff and the The Michael Birt Library successful introduction and use of improved management practices. In 1989, these practices ompletion of Stage 3 of the central will enable the Library to evaluate the Library building was the highlight of effectiveness with which the information needs C the year The Library now has space to of the University are met and to formulate house over one million volumes as well as to strategies for improving access. mcrease the number of reader places. The building was designed to enable the University to take advantage of developments in computer and information technology. 51 Occupational Health and Safety Centre for Teaching Committee Development The University appointed a full-time Safety revious Annual Reports have noted the Officer, Mr J. Owers, as part of its commitment growth in recent years of diagnostic to health and safety of staff. P evaluations of teaching carried out by the Centre on behalf of individual academic The committee continued its program of site clients. Such evaluations, as their name implies, safety inspections and follow-up inspections of are used to provide feedback to clients with a problem areas. A large proportion of campus view to discovering teaching and learning buildings has now been inspected. Every problems which may then be addressed. building will have been inspected at least once by late-1989. In 1988, the University for the first time required all candidates for continuing Areas on campus with the potential to cause appointments or promotion to submit student serious accidents were thoroughly inspected. surveys of all subjects taught in three out of the These included footpaths, tiles at building four Sessions before the hearing of the entrances and terrazzo staircases in some application. It is believed that the University is buildings. Regular maintenance of footpaths the first in Australia to include such a was begun. Methods of treating tiles were requirement in formal conditions of investigated and a treatment list in order of appointment. The survey instrument used for priority was compiled. Night-time lighting on such assessment differs considerably from those campus was checked and in some areas was used for diagnostic evaluations, if only because upgraded. the former must be general in scope while the While the number of accidents reported latter must be subject and teaching method increased, the number of workers' compensa specific. tion claims dropped significantly. Increases in Since it is necessary to preserve the teaching reports are a direct result of campaigns to improvement role of evaluation while encourage staff to report all accidents, introducing formal assessment of teaching, regardless of severity, to the Safety Officer early in 1988 the Centre designed an evaluation Accident statistics are essential to delineate system which could accommodate both problem areas. diagnostic and assessment requirements. This Fume cupboards and laboratories were difficult task was accomplished in time for inspected in detail. Some fume cupboards were evaluations to be conducted during the last shut down and safety showers installed where four weeks of Session 1. Statistics for the required. progp-am show: Monthly maintenance of all safety showers was Clients 105 started. (each Session) Emergency preparedness and fire warden Total number of Evaluations 423 instruction sheets were finalised. A fire warden Diagnostic Evaluations 153 program was initiated after discussions with the Surveys Completed 16,000 State Emergency Service. Training sessions on The surveys were used in the 1988 round of fire-extinguisher types and uses were well Continuing Appointment and Promotion attended by staff. Safety in the Workplace hearings and proved valuable to the committees workshops were attended by staff responsible for concerned. Before redesigning the survey laboratories and maintenance workshops. A instrument to a machine-readable format, register of dangerous and toxic chemicals on feedback from committee members will be campus was initiated. sought to enable minor changes to be made if considered necessary. One unexpected byproduct of the evaluation program was the discovery of a number of teaching problems, the existence of which had previously been unknown, or at best, guessed at. A working party of the Academic Standing Committee will be established to examine these problems more systematically with a view to their elimination. On the other hand, it should be stressed that the great majority of students rate their teachers highly. 52 --•'f.iir«i On arriving at the Reception Desk students are greeted by friendly, cheerful staff members wearing colourful T- shirts adorned with the University crest STUDENT SERVICES Accommodation with washers, driers and exterior clothes lines are supplied for students The Halls to do their own laundry. Computer Rooms in each house provide a niversity Halls have traditionally variety of computer hardware for U offered students accommodation student use. The Residents' supportive of the student's academic Association organises social activities, goals. The Halls may be thought of maintains student kiosk and games as offering accommodation with room equipment and provides a "extras". They provide meals and a selection of daily newspapers. On-site cleaning service for residents, they management of the Halls and have on-site management, and offer pastoral care of the residents is students personal and academic provided by a professional staff support geared towards student during business hours, and by independence. The Halls are postgraduate house tutors after hours. designed to provide a supportive House tutors also help organise Hall environment for residents and aim study groups and are available for to develop a sense of community informal academic assistance. among residents. Breakfast and dinner are provided International House daily in the dining room of each Hall Hindmarsh Avenue, North WoUon and on weekdays at breakfast, gong, a 20-minute walk from residents can make a sandwich lunch. campus, accommodates 200 students Students must provide their own in single study/bedrooms. Accommo pillow, sheets and blankets. (These dation is for a 40-week academic can be loaned to overseas students by year including recess periods. the Halls for the first few weeks until Accommodation with reduced services the students have time to purchase is also generally available throughout them locally.) Individual student the December-February recess. This is rooms are cleaned weekly. Laundries sometimes an advantage for overseas 53 Accommodation Officer facility of WoUongong City is Robyn Wilkes, who Council —with a heated swimming came to WoUongong in 1988 from Macquarie pool, tennis and squash courts, University. She has a basketball stadium and sports BA (Psychology) degree medicine clinic, is located next to from the University of New England and is Weerona. studying at the Univer sity of Sydney for a Master of Arts degree (Psychology) Counselling Service Counsellors offer free and con fidential counselling to members of the University community who want to talk through and change areas of difficulty, conflict, indecision or crisis in their lives. Some things people often talk to a counsellor about are: Students who wish to remain in residence during the long summer • I'm depressed and anxious recess. Fees for 1989 are $3400, due about . . . in two equal instalments in February • How can I make new friends? . . . and July. • I want to become more confident and assertive . . . Weerona • I can't get started with my A 20-minute walk from campus, essay . . . 12 Macquarie Street accommodates • I'm bored with my course. What 92 students; 30 in single study/bed can I do? . . . rooms, and 62 in shared rooms (two • I feel miserable now that he/she students to a room). Shared rooms has gone . . . are cheaper than single rooms. • My family wants me to ... I want Accommodation is for the academic to . , . session only (34 weeks: lecture weeks, • I'm not sure what to do with my study breaks and exam periods). life . . . Residents must vacate rooms com • What do I do now I've failed? . . . pletely during recess periods: 1 week • We'd like to be getting on better in April, 2 weeks in July and 2 weeks together . . . in August, and over the summer As well as individual counselling, recess (December-February) when group programs, in, for example, rooms are made available to stress management, assertion University conference visitors. training, preparing for university, are Overseas students with relatives or also run from time to time. friends in Sydney or in the local area The two counsellors are Greg with whom they plan to stay in recess Hampton and Maxine Lacey. periods will not be inconvenienced by this requirement. Those with no contacts in the local area may find this requirement a problem, and may wish to consider International House as a preference. Fees for Weerona for 1989 are for a single room, and for a shared room. Both are payable in two equal instalments due in February and July. Beaton Park Leisure Centre—a 54 KS!EL:::\ Careers and Appointments Service A Careers and Appointments Service is located on the 1st Floor of the Union Arcade. Individual and group advice is given and a Careers Library is maintained. Campus Interviews Campus Interview programs are arranged in April, May and September. These provide the oppor tunity for employers to interview prospective graduate employees. Casual part-time Employment The Careers and Appointments Service operates a Casual Employ ment Service and assists with Vacation Work. A notice board outside the Counselling/Careers Reception area on the 1st floor of the University Sportsman of Union Arcade, displays job vacancies. the Year was Martin Registration for employment can be These data show a 60 per cent rise in Harland (left), who was a done through the receptionist and all court usage for squash and over 100 member of the Australian bobsleigh team at the positions available will be notified per cent for tennis. The impact of Winter Olympics. At the where possible. Students who are the centre on all areas of recreation awards ceremony the specially interested in tutoring should was breathtaking. Other casual National Bank of activities, such as badminton, table Australia presented the register early. Contact Gayle Ford on Recreation and Sports 270 445. tennis and aerobics, also improved Centre with a cheque for dramatically. $5,000 as a contribution The Careers and Appointments to the development of Officer is Patricia Webster and any On the competitive side the University sport further information can be obtained Association's performance at by phoning 270 324. Australian University Championships and local club level was consistently good, without being outstanding. The netball team was again national University champion and made up Recreation and Sports the majority of the Australian team Association which defeated the British The year was one of consolidation, Universities side that toured with the first full 12 months' Australia. The hockey and rugby operation for the Recreation league teams performed well. And Centre —and a tremendous increase the University Sportsperson of the in casual use of facilities in that Year Martin Harland, competed in period. Since the completion of the the Winter Olympics in Canada. Centre, casual use of the squash and Financially, by hiring facilities to tennis courts has risen dramatically. community groups during off-peak The figures below illustrate the point. times, the Recreation & Sports Squash Tennis Association continues to broaden its 1986 12,469 2,767 income base. Other revenue was 1987 18,463 5,235 raised through sponsorship, believed 1988 20,000(est) 6,000 to be unique to WoUongong Univer sity, with $5,000 from the National Australia Bank and $2,500 from Apple Computers Australia. The Association membership fee is still 55 the lowest of any campus in NSW, The University Union although service to the entire campus Central role of the Union is to continued to improve. During 1989, provide a community centre for the the Association hopes to install a University, and to provide for the swimming pool as Stage 4 of the social, cultural and recreational Recreation Centre. activities and interests of students, staff and their guests. Union Arcade, opened by the Chancellor of the University, Mr Justice Hope, in November 1987, in 1988 drew together a number of Students' Representative essential services for the benefit of the membership. After a slow start to Council 1988, Arcade services flourished — The year 1988 was one of rethinking financial institutions, pharmacy, and restructuring of Higher doctor, dentist, optometrist, Education in Australia. The hairdresser, travel agent and mini University of WoUongong Students' market. Representative Council has also undergone a rethinking and restruc Relocation of the Recreation and turing program, with the result being Sports Association in 1987 permitted a more efficient and effective student the refurbishing of the squash courts organisation providing important in 1988 to provide crucial lounge and services to students on campus. The cafeteria seating and a link with Council will be funding two new Union Arcade. $200,000 of Union student support services for the 1989 funds were allocated to the project. academic year. Construction of a new food and liquor service in the Northern Wing Throughout the 1988 academic year of the Union building was begun in the SRC has recognised the need for May. Costing $200,000, and funded students to have access to professional jointly by the University and the legal advice and study-skill informa Union, this development has tion. As a result of this recognition, generated great interest and the SRC for the 1989 academic year excitement. Allied to this was the will be providing a free legal service upgrading of the bar and bistro areas to students. The service aims to and the incorporation of the Staff provide initial advice for any legal Club into the Union to form the problems a student might have. University Club. However because of the size of the student population at The University Planning for a major expansion and of WoUongong, continuing assistance renovation of Union Hall by the end will be provided for a limited range of the year was well under way. of problems only. The aim of the Estimated cost is $1.65 million. The service is to provide a free and Commonwealth was approached to readily accessible legal service to all fund this project on a dollar for members of the SRC. dollar basis, with the University The second service which the SRC making a grant of $250,000. The will be co-funding with the University balance of $575,000 will be provided is the Learning Assistance Centre, by the Union. This project, if which will provide much-needed funded, will be the first Union support for students in learning and project to be paid for at public academic skills. The SRC welcomes expense since 1976. the University's commitment to pro Although the physical development of viding the majority of funds for this facilities received much attention in important service and is delighted to 1988, Union services and social and be given the opportunity to co-fund cultural activities were also accorded the Learning Assistance Centre. their measure of priority. 56 LIAISON WITH INDUSTRY Illawarra Technology Centre — computer software and hardware development he Illawarra Technology — metals technology Centre Limited (ITC) was — scientific instrumentation T established by the University — training and research on issues of in 1984 to act as a technology science policy, strategy and transfer mechanism for the management University The Centre began off- — computer training. campus, in central WoUongong in leased premises, until construction of The Centre has provided a focal a dedicated building was completed point for all main regional groups concerned with rebuilding, on campus in 1987. Construction diversifying and strengthening the costs were financed from the Steel local economy. The WoUongong City Cities Assistance Fund. Council, The University of Fostering and creating new enterprise WoUongong, unions and industry, in technologically advanced and along with other groups such as the emerging area where 'value-added' is Illawarra Regional Development high, is the primary objective of the Board and the South Coast Employ Centre. Commercial concepts taken ment Development Project Limited, up by the Centre, which offers a have come together around the issue range of business services to support of regional redevelopment to act, in start-up ventures, come from both concert, in the interests of the region University research and private as a whole. industry. The flow of technology from the University to industry is matched Towards the end of the year, actions by a flow of technology and market were in train to integrate the business information in the opposite direction. development functions of the Centre with those of other University Generally speaking, the Centre takes activities, such as WoUongong an equity interest in start-up ventures Uniadvice Limited. A main outcome in proportion to its input. While of this will be to channel all significant income from the majority University commercial activity into of these ventures is not expected for a one structure leading to greater number of years, and in some cases focus and improved co-ordination. may never occur, the Centre is See diagram overleaf. creating widening linkages and networks, to industry, for the Designs have been completed for University. Business and support Stage II of the existing building with services provided by the Centre are a view to construction starting during made available on a fully costed 1989. Additional space is needed to basis. accommodate the expanding level of The 15 organisations currently activity. affiliated with the ITC are engaged Progress of the Centre so far has in applied research, consulting, and been possible only because of strong conventional commercial activity in these areas: support of the University and the wider community. There is now - robotics, electronics and enough in place, by way of automation achievement and support, for a - development and maintenance of substantial scaling-up of the Centre's databases in the engineering efforts to be fully justified. industry - electronic data interchange and During 1989, effort will be devoted to communication systems Ufting activity to a new plateau - bulk materials handling through the Campus East project. - biotechnology See article elsewhere in this Report, 57 o o « ^•3 o S $ •o -5 = I -II l§pg y y **• Oo>"2 0 0 c p UI oe O y O- 5 s & O © o o researct i acade m z Admlnlst r consultl n wit h IndI v 50 2 o o a o o © -^ 0 CO 0 S! c S UJ z 0 © 0 ® oo 5 5 UJ UJ &o^-o . ST R ii! 0 •7 u- < n ^. ^ z < o 9<2 (e.g . powe r Provisio n o f an d ottie r f c t o tenan a n companie s CO 0 0 z © > •7 o UJ 3 to T3 0 H C CO 0 z 2go) . « Q o . 7 < o 8 Q. C\ o 2 P s © 3 as z 5 c © ^ > s BU S < pp <» o a CO O 15 > z o o o O z si 8 O o z § O $ X O u. O o > 2: < •£ > < UJ It" O z I o5S o z 3 Z O z ^ UJ TD oC I zo o •5 Oz w S rJ S Si «> li< < pt: c Z = a. Of 58 Mr David Turner, Chief of the Division for Shipping, Ports and Inland Water ways in ESCAP, exchanging light- hearted comments with Dr Ross Robinson, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Transport Policy Analysis WoUongong Uniadvice projects for 1989, including the Limited Apple Consortium Conference, the 12th Annual Computer Science oUongong Uniadvice Conference and the 1st International Limited began its operation Microwave Power Applications Was a separate entity in Symposium. December 1987. The volume of activity and business increased WoUongong Uniadvice Limited considerably during the year. Centres Activities included beginning of the The Microwave Applications WoUongong English Language Research Centre was increasingly Centre, with the bulk of enrolments active with microwave power and its from Asian students; and a three-year use in the preparation of ceramics project by the Centre for Transport and refractories, sewage sterilisation Policy Analysis to investigate and the microwave-assisted leaching Australia's domestic freight of gold. movements. The Centre for Transport Policy Mr Ian Carter was appointed General Analysis has been involved in the Manager of WoUongong Uniadvice study of Australia's domestic freight Limited in March. flows and in a major study on Federal policy on trading of WoUongong Uniadvice Limited in international aviation rights. 1988 entered into a joint venture (see article on page 45) with The Centre for Applied Biological Computations Corporate Services Research carried out the micro Limited for the purpose of providing biological analysis of water samples quality finance-sector training for individuals and companies in the programs for career personnel. Illawarra region. Tests for Legionella, Total Plate Counts and other micro The Uniadvice Consulting and organisms, particularly those found Research Division at the end of the in environmental samples, are being year was engaged in negotiating a carried out at the Centre. joint venture to commercialise the The Centre for Materials began production of specialised polymer operations on September 1. The products. Centre will carry out consulting and Continuing and Professional research work, with the emphasis on Education Division completed the collaboration programs with several groundwork for a number of major companies. 59 PUBLICATIONS or a tertiary education Two other journals are published on institution in the middle a regular basis. The University of Frange in terms of size, the WoUongong Gazette began six years University produces a rich summary ago. It was seen then as a desirable of its activities —and it does so in a bridge between the University and number of ways. It does so in the the community, carrying research first instance with Campus News, its reports and news of the University weekly eight-page A4-size news sheet. to the outside in a way that Campus Campus News began as News, saddled with its columns of a chiefly-for-the-campus publication, domestic business, seminars and as a contact between administration forthcoming events, could never do. and staff and students, a link between department and department. The Gazette has a few firsts (or To a lesser extent it was seen, also, scoops!) to its credit and, like as an instrument of public relations. Campus News, is becoming Today it goes beyond the campus increasingly picked over by the print boundaries, to the Friends of the and electronic media for news of the University, to other universities, to University's doings. It was, for certain government instrumentalities example, first with the news of the and quangos and the press. It is predating, by the Department of today considered by many to be a Geography, of human habitation in prime source of the University's news to those outside campus. Australia to 45,000 years ago. And, at the other end of the time scale. 60 One of the illustrations from the University of WoUongong 'Research Report 1987-88'. Pictured is Mr Peter Ihnat of the Department of Physics, whose Astronomy and Astrophysics research group has been develop ing an imaging facility to service its programs. This will support existing work, allowing the development of new hardware and software, and permit the group to exploit plate material from the 48in Schmidt telescope in which Australians have gained a half share it was first with the news of the "Vol. W—Statistics report, statistical scientific work, and the implications information and historical tables. of the research, in the Microwave The Undergraduate Handbook is a Applications Centre. The Gazette comprehensive guide to under appears four times a year. In 1988 it graduate course information. It WAS published for the first time with contains Bachelor Degree, Diploma full-colour illustrations on the cover and Associate Diploma regulations. and on inside pages. The handbook also lists schedules of Sister publication to the Gazette subjects and subject descriptions for is The University of WoUongong all undergraduate courses. Graduates Gazette, which has The Postgraduate Handbook is appeared twice a year for the past a comprehensive guide to three years. Its raison d'etre is the postgraduate course information. The keeping open of lines of communica publication contains Graduate Degree tion between the University and and Diploma and Associate Diploma former students. The Graduates regulations. It also lists schedules for Gazette (the word Gazette was subjects and subject descriptions. dropped at the end of 1988) concen trates on profiles and the doings of Promotional publications are pro graduates, in whatever courses they duced by the Planning and Market have been pursuing, since leaving ing Branch. Among them is the university. Undergraduate Prospectus which provides an introduction to the Much more sweeping in scope and University for potential under content are the University Annual graduate students. It promotes the Report and the Research Report, The high calibre of courses, the setting, Research Report, which runs to 64 atmosphere, facilities and services, pages, made its first appearance in and it gives course information and the final quarter of the year entry requirements. The Under graduate Prospectus is complemented More specific in content, the by a series of brochures providing University Calendar is published in detailed course information. four volumes: In addition to those, there is a Vol. 1 —Legislation volume, contains comprehensive four-colour map guide the University of WoUongong Act and to the campus. And promotional By-lavi'. brochures are produced for the Vol. 11 -Undergraduate Handbook- Business and Technology Complex at see below. Campus East, and for marketing Vol. Ill —Postgraduate Handbook- activities in the USA, Malaysia, Japan see below. and Korea. 61 Long-service awards: honoured for 25 years of service to the University were, from left, Noel Kennon,John Wells, Rod Hollands, Max Lowrey, Beatrice Henderson, Tom Homer, Bill Cpfold, Peter Arnold, Ron Kinnell, Abe Segal, Keith McLellan, Ian Lowe and Peter Bolton HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR Dr Karen Neander, from the Department of Philosophy, was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University, for the whole of 1989. Dr Neander unll return to WoUongong at the end of the year, on completion of her project, which wilt result in a book—one of the first philosophical treatments of artificial intelligence Entitled ContempOi_ry \'ietnain: Perspectives from .Australia, the second book to be published by the University Press was launched at the end of June. Seen here at the ceremony are, left, Professor Dudley fackson, Editor of the University Press, Colin Mackerras, Foundation Professor in the School of Modem Asian Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, and Professor Ken McKinnon, Vice-Chancellor of The Unnersity of WoUongong 62 ^^^^^^^^•V'^V** ^^^^^^^ ^^v afl^^^B 1 ^^^^K^ml^^ ^^^^ ^^^r>4 L ^ J ^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^HP' * * j^^^H ^^^K " ^^HH During the year, several highly successful plays were produced by School of Creative Arts staff and students. Above is feff Kevin as he appeared in the Irish tragi-comedy entitled Juno and the Paycock. On the right is a still from another acclaimed production —The Piper's Promise, an opera for young performers, with music by Andrew Ford and libretto byfim Falk and Sue Rowley THROUGH THE CAMERA'S EYE The Library extensions are declared formally open by Dr Gregor Ramsey, Interim Chairman of the Higher Education Council of the National Board of Education and Training. Flanking him are (left) the Vice-Chancellor Professor Ken McKinnon and, right, the Chancellor of the University Mr fustice Hope Sue Chapman, Manager, University Personnel Services, was named Illawarra Bicentennial Woman of the Year by the Illawarra Business Club. The biannual award is made to an outstanding business or professional woman under the age of 35 who has had significant management experience. Sue chairs the Educational Sub-committee of the Illawarra branch of the Australian Institute of Management 63 A software package worth $27,000, and designed to evaluate orebodies efficiently and accurately, was donated to the Department of Civil and Mining Engineering by Giant Resources Ltd. At the handing-over ceremony are Dr E, Y. Baffi, Dr I. Potter, Professor Lewis Schmidt, Mr Bruce Kirk of Giant Resources, Dr N, I, Azziz and Mr Ken Mule of Mining Systems, Mincom Pty Ltd Indicative of the University's commitment to EEO is this scooter, purchased for runabout use on campus by disabled students. In the saddle here is Craig Wallace, a Bachelor of Arts student, who took part in the test program Recipients of Friends of the University scholarships by WoUongong businesses were Adam Sharman (rear left), Steven Dransfield, Martin Carolan, fohn Wilson, fulia Koskinen (middle left), Sean Podevin, At the time of her death, Ethel Hayton, Aaron Avagliano, Steven Ayrton, Michelle MBE, had intended presenting the Kudrynski (front left), Denise Knight and Rebecca University with a ceremonial mace. The Eraser project was taken up by the Friends of the University, and the mace is seen here with its creator, Mr George Parianos, Head of the mace is the symbolic shape of the Illawarra At the University open-air forum during Heritage Week, children flame tree from local schools were fascinated to be able to join in traditional dance performed by Aboriginal dancers 64 S'hotogmph of the Year? This remarkable picture was hikrn by furgeii Treue during the Heritage Week celebrations. The • Ihonginnl dancer is Daifid Ngoombujarra 'w9 *.i/ - ., » PRIZES AWARDED IN 1988 Department Name of Prize Name of Prize Winner(s) Faculty of Arts English The Marjory Brown Prize Not determined Psychology The Australian Psychological Barbara Nagy Society—Prize in Psychology Creative Arts Philip Larkin Prize Sue NichoUs Des Davis Prize in Drama Helen Rivero History and Politics The Australian Institute of Craig Wallace Political Science Prize Faculty of Commerce Accountancy & Legal Australian Society of Accountants Talk Hian Sia Studies Annual Prize, First Year Australian Society of Accountants Robyn Lee Annual Prize, Second Year Australian Society of Accountants Alessandro Frino Annual Prize, Third Year Butterworths Pty Ltd Law Christine Janine Davidson Publishers Prizes Eliana Mariani Tracey Lee Pendlebury Steven John Dransfield Corporate Affairs Commission Sonia Maria Bianco Prize for Law of Business Organisations Coopers and Lybrand Prize for Alessandro Frino Advanced Auditing Touche Ross & Co. Chartered Anthony Neville Brooks Accountants—Prize for Business Finance (I) Economics The Hilda Kirby Prize Lynette Fraser The Industrial Relations Society Daryl Kilby of NSW Prize Management The AIM Prize in Management Studies Alison May Wall The Aim Master in Management Studies Michael Salon Friends Prize for Management Studies Sunjijati Kumiawan School of Industrial & The Apple Award for Computer Duncan Cameron MacKinnon Administrative Studies Applications The Unisys Award for Business Jennifer Joy Richter Systems Analysis The Unisys Award for Postgraduate Rodney Clarke Diploma in Business Information Systems Faculty of Engineering Engineering The Institute of Engineering, Dominic Cuiuri Australia, Award Civil and Mining The Australasian Institute of Francis Xavier Fulham Engineering Mining and Metallurgy (Illawarra Branch) Mining Prize The Western Mining Corporation Christopher John Eager Prizes for Mining Engineers (two prizes) Francis Xavier Fulham Elizabeth Tague Prize Not awarded in 1988 Peter Schmidt Memorial Scholarship Yan Yang Joint Coal Board Prizes (three prizes) Gerald Linde Neil James Marvell Francis Xavier Fulham Hot-Dip Galvanising Award Leon Francis Fay Electrical & Computer Staff Prize for the Fourth Year Dominic Cuiuri 66 Department Name of Prize Name of Prize Winner(s) Engineering Electrical Engineering Thesis Institution of Electrical Engineers Award Not awarded in 1988 The A.W. Tyree Transformers Not awarded in 1988 Pty Limited Award Mechanical Engineering Sam Marshall Prize for Mechanical Kevin William Morrow Engineering Undergraduate Thesis The Australasian Institute of Metallurgy & Materials David John Langley Engineering Mining & Metallurgy (Illawarra Branch) Materials Prize Institute of Metals & Materials Michael Funcik Australasia (WoUongong Branch) Materials Prize BHP Steel Slab & Plate Products Peter Lawrence Hawken Division Materials Prize Blue Circle Southern Cement Prize Michael Funcik Commonwealth Banking Alan Kevin Giumelli Corporation Prize BHP Steel Coated Products Grant Adrian West Division Prize Metal Manufacturers Prize David John Langley (three prizes) Peter Lawrence Hawken Michael Ferry Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Computing Science IBM Prize for Excellence in Computing Geoffrey Peter Silburn Mathematics The SA Senior Prize Paul Morris — awarded jointly Carmen Petrone Statistical Society of Australia Not awarded in 1988 (NSW Branch) Prize The Austin Keane Memorial Prize Stephen Lucas — awarded jointly Leonie Miller Faculty of Science Science The Gina Savage Prize Not determined Biology The Biology Prize David James Selden Chemistry The G.W. Daniels Memorial Prize Susan Melinda Hunt The Peter Beckmann Memorial Prize Maria Carmen Morales Bert Halpern Prize in Chemistry Peter Teasdale Geology The Australasian Institute of Mining Scott Geoffrey Smithers & Metallurgy (Illawarra Branch) Geology Prize The A.J. & I. Waters Prize in Geology Not awarded in 1988 The Foundation Prize in Geology Michael Ceccato The Evan Phillips Prize in Geology Alex Gordon Cook The CRAE Mapping Prize in Geology David Heber Le Bas B.P. Australia Ltd Coal Geology Not awarded in 1988 Prize Physics The Australian Institute of Physics Stephen Allan Cower (NSW Branch) Prize in Physics Staff Prize in First Year Physics Not awarded in 1988 Staff Prize in Second Year Physics Michael John Jennings Staff Prize in Third Year Physics Stephen Allan Gower Staff Prize in Honours Year Physics Not awarded in 1988 School of Health Sciences The Illawarra Hospital Prize for Jessica Raimond Nursing The niawarra Award for Nursing Jessica Raimond Excellence The Illawarra Hospital Desilee Gail Dwyer Encouragement Prize for Nursing 67 BUILDINGS AND SITE DEVELOPMENTS uring 1988, the Commonwealth Govern- The building will comprise three inter 1 ment gave the go-ahead for a new connecting structures. Two of them. Blocks A General Purpose Academic Building and B, will be of three storeys, virtually D for The University of WoUongong. identical in design (mirror reversed) and The building wUl cost 58,679,000 with include in total some 144 offices, a 70-seat 51,851,000 being allocated for 1989. Both lecture room, 12 other teaching rooms, seven of the above amounts are at June 1988 laboratories with a technical workshop, and a price levels. faculty resource room. The building is being designed to meet the The third structure. Block C, will comprise a University s need for additional academic 400-seat multi-purpose lecture theatre. The offices and common teaching areas with some addition of a large stage and backstage specific-use facilities included. It is intended facility will allow the theatre to be used for a that initially the main user of office and number of purposes as well as give the School specific-use facilities will be the Faculty of of Creative Arts valuable and much-needed Commerce. Additional space will be available work space. for allocation to other parts of the University. The academic office and common teaching In all, a total of approximately 3900 sq.m. of areas will be 'general purpose' in character usable floor area will be included in an and function. This will allow for maximum efficient and economical building. physical and servicing flexibility to cater for a ,-! new University theatre is in course of construction. Here a group of fapanese thespians, visiting the Unnersity, give it their blessing with a ritual dance 68 ,_ « '/^.vf' lit Artists impression of the new contemporary-style general purpose academic building which will cost over SH.5 million, with $1,851 allocated for 1989 wide range of potential users and the need to Major projects incorporate future communications and teach ing technologies. Teaching and office environ Library extension ments will be comfortable and efficient. Commonwealth Government funded project of |5.3 Because of the urgent need for additional million completed in March 1988. space, an early decision was taken to begin the planning and design well before funding Minor building and site development was approved. Consequently, the design was projects sufficiently well advanced to allow the project Improvements to external teaching to be submitted to tender towards the end of areas for School of Creative Arts $45,000 February 1989, with a view to construction starting during March. Provision of additional Campus lighting for paths and roadways 55,000 Electrical power supply shedding from Substation 1 to Substation 5 65,000 Refurbishment of buildings at Campus East for transfer of Main tenance Section from Main Campus 70,000 Refurbishment of buildings at Campus East (including provision of outdoor animal pens) for Depart ment of Biology 140,000 Internal painting of Pentagon Lecture Theatre Complex 29,000 Part funding of Performance Space Project 19,000 69 Part funding of Science Teaching Lab • Alterations in Union Building to Project 19,000 provide additional dining room Alterations in Building 19 to provide facihties 150,000 better use of space for Department of • Partitioning and fitout of Level Psychology 12,000 One of Science Teaching Labora Refurbishment in Library to provide tory building to provide research facihties for Computing Education 35,000 facilities for Uniadvice 383,000 Provision of additional office space • Refurbishment of Library Foyer 20,000 for Student Services and Department • Alterations to Building 8 to pro of Mathematics 16,000 vide specialised teaching/research space for School of Health Science 67,000 Total $505,000 Total 11,274,000 During 1988 the University also funded from its own resources several projects including: • Construction of Performance Space $403,000 • Extension of South Western Car Park 91,000 ^m^^smw ^:'' .i.^.v-'f^fy,.>,•:?•••' 'A'- •» •"^CHV-"'^"^ S •y, .-1 ••\'^,^ N OR -\o Conservatonum ot MUSIC Botanic Gardens Winifred Mumford 70 University Land Land use: Students' residential college Land is essential to the University's operations Main Campus Land value (VG) $110,000. Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville (WoUongong) Lot I in Deposited Plan, 113094 Mt Keira Observatory Area: 82.04ha Mt Keira/Picton Road (Permissive occupancy) Land use: University buildings, education and Area: 1.027ha research activities Land use: University Observatory/Telescope All land is essential to the University's building operations Land is essential to the University's operations Land value (VG) $1,189,000. Land value (VG) $4,000. International House Residence for Vice-Chancellor Hindmarsh Avenue, Gwynneville (WoUongong) 2 Parrish Avenue, Mt Ousley Lot 41 in DP546239 Vol 11543 Fol. 188 Lot 17 DP24098 Lot 42 in DP546239 Vol 11543 Fol. 189 Area: 0.2023ha Lot 1 in DP546474 Vol II619 Fol. 167 Land use: Vice-Chancellor's Residence Lot 13 in DP585083 Vol 13585 Fol. 56 Residence required under terms of appointment Area: Approximately 1.2ha Land value (VG) $60,000. International House and ^M^efDna 71 Other Off-Campus Property 55 Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville Lot 1 Porter Street, Gwynneville (WoUongong) (WoUongong) Certificate of Title Reg. Book No. Vol 4945 Lot 3 DP362I8 Vol 13318 Fol. 13 Fol. 128 Area: b75m^ Area: 882m2 Land use: Building accommodation for Land use: Building accommodation for University education/research activities University education/research activities Land is essential to the University's operations Land is essential to the University's operations Land value (VG) $31,000. Land value (VG) $26,000. 18 Madoline Street, Gwynneville (WoUongong) 49 Northfields Avenue, Gv\fynneville Lot 14 DP36215 Vol 13330 Fol. 166 (WoUongong) Area: 668m2 Lot 6 DP36218 Vol 13318 Fol. 14 Land use: Building accommodation for Area: 525m^ University education/research activities Land use: Building accommodation for Land is essential to the University's operations University education/research activities Land value (VG) $31,000. Land is essential to the University's operations Land value (VG) $31,000. Weerona (Hall of Residence) 12 Macquarie Street, WoUongong 51 Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville Part Lot B (WoUongong) DP160926 Lot 5 DP36218 Vol 18720 Fol. 37 Conveyance Book 1875 Area: 548m^ Number: 753 (residue) Land use: Building accommodation for Area: 1.171ha University education/research activities Land use: Student residential accommodation Land is essential to the University's operations Land use is essential to the University's Land value (VG) $31,000. operations Land value (VG) $500,000. 53 Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville (WoUongong) Fairy Meadow Facility Lot 4 DP36218 Vol 11029 Fol. 17 (Campus East) Area: 545m^ Cowper Street, Fairy Meadow Land use: Building accommodation for Lot 1 University education/research activities DP719865, Parish of Woonona Land is essential to the University's operations County of Camden Land value (VG) $31,000. FoUo Identified 1/719865 Area: Approx. 12.02ha Land use (part): Student residential accommodation Land is essential to the University's operations Land value (VG) $250,000. 72 GRANTS AND DONATIONS Australian Research Grants Scheme Dr G.W. Delamore Crystallisation Kinetics of Metallic Faculty of Arts Glasses $29,335 History Prof N.F. Kennon and Prof J.S. Hagan and Prof K. Turner A/Prof D. P Dunne A History of the Australian Labour Crystallographic and Metallographic Party (NSW) $7,500 Analyses of Shape Memory Alloys $20,000 Dr ES. Piggin Australian Evangelicalism—A Bicentennial History $16,000 Faculty of Mathematical Dr A.D. Wells Sciences A History of Left Wing Intellectuals in Australia 1920-1970 $5,000 Mathematics Prof J.R. Blake and Psychology A/Prof G. Doherty Prof W.J. Lovegrove and Transient Cavities Near Boundaries $26,000 Dr S.L. Chow A/Prof D.J. Clarke Vision, Phonological Encoding, Coastal Storm Frequency and Beach Memory and Specific Reading Erosion $6,400 DisabiHty $23,500 Dr C.J. Coleman A/Prof L.L. Viney Boundary Integral Methods for the The Process of Counselling $15,000 Study of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow $9,000 Science and Technology Studies Dr J.M. HiU Dr B. Martin Integral Formulations and Bounds The Vulnerability of Some Key for Heat Diffusion Moving Boundary Australian Technological Systems to Problems $14,995 Military Threats $10,000 Dr N.F Smyth Internal Hydraulic Jumps and Undular Bores Formed on a Shelf Faculty of Engineering Break $28,335 Civil and Mining Engineering A/Prof R.N. Chowdhury Slope Stability and Risk Assessment $32,872 Faculty of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Biology A/Prof T.S. Ng Dr D.J. Ayre Recursive System Identification and Factors Determining the Genetic its Applications $7,000 Structure of Populations of the Sea Anemone Acintia Tenobrosa $36,058 Mechanical Engineering Dr A.K. Tleu A/Prof A.J. Hulbert Studies of the Evolution of Superlaminar Flow in Hydrodynamic Mammahan Endothermy $28,649 Thrust Bearings $32,832 A/Prof R.M. Lilley and A/Prof A.D. Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Brown Dr T. Chandra and A/Prof D.P. Dunne Osmoregulation in Halotolerant The Influence of Microalloying Algae $16,000 Additions on the Structure and Properties of HSLA Steel Weldments $7,000 73 Dr H.J. Spencer and Dr A. Rundell A/Prof B.C. Jones, A/Prof G.C. Radiotelemetric Determination of Nanson and A/Prof R.W. Young Distribution, Colony Sites and The Gilbert Fandelta—An Integrated Feeding Range of the Grey-Headed Sedimentological, Geomorphical and Fruit Bat —Pteropus Poliocephalus $26,000 Chronological Study of a Tropical Dr R.J. Whelan Monsoon River System $11,000 Competition Among Plants for Physics Pollination $16,450 Prof P. Fisher, Dr C.A. Freeth, Dr R.J. Whelan and Dr D.J. Ayre Dr A.D. Martin, Dr P.E. Simmonds Genetic Consequences of Plasticity of and Dr R.A. Lewis Mating Systems in the Proteaceae $24,000 Electronic and Vibrational Spectra of Chemistry Sohds $60,812 Dr P.T. Crisp and Dr M. Gmlhaus Improved Methods for the Analysis Centres of Anionic Surfactants in Natural and Waste Waters $12,000 Centre for Multicultural Studies Dr M.J. Garson Prof S. Castles, Dr K.D. Gibson and Chemistry and Biochemistry of DrJ.H. CoUins Marine Invertebrates from the The Apparent Growth of Self- lUawarra Region $24,000 employment: Migrants and the Economic Restructuring of Sydney $13,438 Dr D.W. Griffith Applications of Matrix Isolation Ms M. Kalantzis and Mr W.W. Cope Spectroscopy to Atmospheric Cultural Pluralism and School Chemistry $5,000 Achievement: Effective and Cognitive Outcomes to Four Junior Secondary Prof L. Kane-Maguire Social Science Curricula $5,000 Kinetics and Mechanisms of Metal Carbonyl Cluster Reactions $25,933 Centre for Transport Policy Analysis Dr S.G. Pyne A/Prof R. Robinson and Dr K. Asymmetric Carbon-Carbon and Trace Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Forming Australian Flag Competitiveness and Reactions from Chiral Chelated National Maritime Policy: An Sulfoximines $22,000 Analysis of its Cost Impacts on Container and Bulk Minerals Exports $28,500 Geogpraphy A Prof G.C. Nanson, A/Prof R.W. Young and Dr D.M. Price Quaternary Studies of Stream Development in Central and Eastern National Health and Medical Australia $19,000 Research Council Geology Faculty of Science Dr P.F. Carr, A/Prof B.C. Jones and Biology Dr C.L. Fergusson Prof I.W. Chubb Relationship Between Plutonism, Peptides, Neuropeptides and Volcanism and Tectonics in the Neurotransmission $104,649 Southern WoUondilly Tract, Eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, NSW $10,000 Prof H.M. Gamett Characterisation of Cytomegalovirus Dr C.L. Fergusson, Dr R. Henderson and Dr E. Leitch Induced Plasma Membrane Glycoproteins $41,621 Tectonostratigraphic Terrane Analysis of the Craigilee-Yarrol Province, A/Prof A.J. Hulbert Northern New England Orogen $5,500 The Role of the Thyroid in the Early Physiological Development of Mammals $42,407 Dr EJ. Steele and Dr P.D. Cooper Studies on the Potential of Gamma Insulin as an Adjuvant in Mice $27,002 74 Or R. Truscott CSIRO/University of Mechanism of Senile Nuclear WoUongong Collaborative Cataract in Man $27,106 Faculty of Engineering Health Sciences Electrical and Computer Prof G.D. Calvert Engineering Hepatic Metabohsm of High-Density Dr D. Piatt and Prof B.H. Smith Lipoprotein $27,499 The Operation and Optimal Design Prof G.D. Calvert of Axial Flux, Permanent Magnet Metabolism of Human High-Density Machines $4,400 Lipoprotein Subfractions $32,471 Mechanical Engineering Prof G.D. Calvert and Dr D.R. Turner Dr I.S. Jawahir and Dr N. Gane Characterisation of Human Lipid A Study of the Effects of Tool Transfer Protein $39,903 Geometry and Surface Coating on Chip Formation and Chip Breaking in Metal Machining $16,500 Metallurgy and Materials Engineering National Energy Research, Prof W.J. Plumbridge and Dr M.Y. Swain Development and Fatigue Crack Growth in Engineering Demonstration Program Ceramics $11,728 Faculty of Engineering Civil and Mining Engineering A/Prof R.W, Upfold Faculty of Science Interactive Safety Training of Underground in the Mining Chemistry Industry $91,510 Dr D. Griffith and Mr P. Cheney The Chemistry of Bushfires $2,500 Mechanical Engineering Dr R. Truscott and Dr R.M. Traynier Prof P.C. Arnold Plant Chemistry and Egg Laying by Long-Distance Pneumatic Cabbage Butterflies $4,000 Conveying of Fly Ash $308,393 Dr G.C. Wallace and Dr D.G. Laird Prof P.C. Arnold Development of a Biosensor for Blockage Wear and Conveyor Aspartame $9,000 Direction Change of Conveyor Chutes $310,393 Geography Dr A.L. O'Neill and Dr S. Fraser A Study of the Interaction of Light with a Variety of Australian Plants of Marine Science and Economic and Environmental Technologies Importance and the Correlation of this Spectral Information with the Signals Faculty of Science Received on Satellite Sensors $5,000 Biology Geology Dr D.J. Ayre Dr P.F. Carr and Dr G. Carr Genetic Variation within and among A Comparison of U-Pb, Rb-Sr Populations of Reef Corals $34,918 and Nd-Sm Isotopic Systematics of Silurian to Carboniferous Gold and Base Metal Mineralisation in the Eastern Lachlan Fold Belt $13,372 A/Prof B.C. Jones and Dr G. Batley The Environmental Significance of Industrial Metal Pollutants in the Sediment and Biota of Estuarine Lagoonal Systems on the NSW Coast $8,000 75 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Faculty of Education Mathematics Special Education Centre— Prof J.R. Blake and Dr D.C. Gibson Macquarie University Cavitation Bubbles Near Compliant Mr K. McLeUan Boundaries $6,500 Integration of Disabled Children $16,000 NSW Cancer Council Mr M.J. Hatton Evaluation of the Health Resource for Other Research Grants Cancer Education $12,000 Faculty of Arts History Building Workers' Industrial Union Faculty of Engineering Fellowship Civil and Mining Engineering Prof J.S. Hagan Post 1942 History of Industrial Bellambi Coal Company Pty Ltd Relations in the AustraUan Building Dr N.I. Aziz and Construction Industry 168,862 Dust Suppression in Mines $500 Federal Department of Transport Psychology Mr D.J. Barker Commonwealth Department of Health The Relationship Between Signal Mr J. Wragg and A/Prof L.L. Viney Timing, Geometries, Pedestrian Longitudinal Drug Education/ Delays and the Incidence of Prevention Study in NSW 321,587 Pedestrian Violations of Signal Commonwealth Aids Research Grant Control $11,450 A/Prof L.L. Viney, Ms B.M. Walker Mr D.J. Barker and Ms L. Crooks Distribution of Driver Eye Heights at Individual and Group Counselling for Rural Mid-Block Locations $5,860 Aids Carers $50,467 Minenco Pty Ltd A/Prof L.L. Viney Dr R. Henry and Dr R. Kohoutek Dr B.M. Walker Dynamic Performance of Semi-Rigid The Psychosocial Needs of HIV- Joints $3,000 infected People and their Careers 554,000 Joint Coal Board Sociology Dr A.J. Hargraves NSW Department of Health Sorption Coefficients of Expansion of Ms S. Short NSW Coals with CH4 and C02 $2,000 The Effects of Shift Work on Nurses $2,000 Kembla Coal and Coke; Joint Coal Science and Technology Studies Board Prof L.C. Schmidt Department of Industrial Relations Rapid Face Bolting Project ^4Q,QQ0 Dr R. Badham Human and Organisational Factors Water Research Foundation of Affecting the Successful Introduction Australia and Use of Computer-aided Design 520.000 Prof L.C. Schmidt Flood Water Research $2,500 The Bellambi Coal Company— NERDDC Subcontract Faculty of Commerce Prof L.C. Schmidt and Dr D. Accountancy and Legal Studies Montgomery Law Foundation of NSIV Testwork Associated with the Trials of Mr K. Hale and Mr J. Jackson Coal Wash as Feedstock for Brick AustraUan Corporate Law Database 526,027 Manufacture 520,290 NSW Department of Energy Prof L.C. Schmidt, A/Prof R.W. Upfold and Dr D.G. Montgomery Tests on Ash for the Use in concrete 59,600 76 Electrical and Computer Engineering Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Overseas Telecommunications Australian Welding Research Commission Association Prof H.S. Bradlow A/Prof D.P. Dunne Fast Packet Switching (EPS) or Investigation of Hardening Process in Integrated Services Packet Networks the HAZ of Welded Plate Steels $9,000 (iSPN) $15,000 Prof W.J. Plumbridge and Australian Telecommunications and Dr A.L. Wingrove Electronics Research Board Distortion of Galvanised Welded Prof H.S. Bradlow Structures $24,500 Intergration of Conversational Voice National Teaching Company Scheme Communications into Local and Prof W.J. Plumbridge Wide Area Computer Networks $6,000 Variability in Magnesia Particulates $11,250 A/Prof T.S. Ng Generic Technologies Grant Performance Analysis of Multiple Prof W.J. Plumbridge Beam and Optimum Combining Development and Application of Space Diversity Arrays in Digital Low-cost Ceramic Coatings $468,400 Mobile Base Stations $8,000 A/Prof. F.J. Paoloni A Pipeline Two-dimensional Fourier Faculty of Science Transform Processor $2,000 Biology Electrical Research Board Murray-Darling Freshwater Research A/Prof K.J. McLean Centre A New Approach to Adaptively Tune Dr D. Ayre and Ms J. Chaplin a PSS for Generators Subjected to Reproduction and Dispersal of the Large Changes in System Con Freshwaterostracod Candonocypris figurations $14,000 Novaezealandiae in the Illawarra and Murray-Darling Regions of NSW $8,516 Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Multiple Sclerosis Society A/Prof F.J. Paoloni Dr R. Flower and Dr S.J. Robbins An Investigation of the Electrical Monoclonal Antibodies in Cats $5,000 Characteristics of a Vacuum Arc Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centrifuge $4,700 Foundations Texas Instruments Dr E.J. Steele A/Prof T.S. Ng Molecular Screening for Restriction Data Compression on Digited Speech $5,900 Fragment Length Polymorphisms in Antibody Variable DNA Sequences in Progeny of Immune Males $30,000 Mechanical Engineering Australian Flora Foundation Electrical Research Board Dr R.J. Whelan Prof P.C. Arnold Pollination and Resource Allocation Optimal Design of Stepped Pipelines as Limits to Fruit Set in Waratah for the Long-distance Pneumatic {Telopea Speciossima) $1,983 Conveying of Fly Ash and Other Related Products $34,059 Chemistry Dr A.K. Tieu BHP/UNIWOL foint Research Proposal A Numerical and Experimental Dr P.T. Crisp and Dr P.J. Kirton Investigation into the Oil Whirl The Chemical Characteristics of Coke Characteristics of Hydrodynamic Oven Emissions $7,000 Journal Bearings $5,000 Leo and Jenny Leukaemia and Worksafe Australia Cancer Foundation Dr R. Wheway Dr M.J. Garson Case Study on Worker Machine Screening of Marine Extracts for Interface on a Production Line $3,750 Anti-Tumor and Anti-Aids Activity $3,375 77 Bomem Health Sciences Dr D. Griffith WoUongong City Council Cyrogenic GC-FTIR $64,904 Prof G.D. Calvert Johnston & Johnston Development Seeding Money for NH & MRC 1989 Research Corporation Ltd Grant in Environmental Toxicology $2,200 Dr S. G. Pyne National Heart Foundation of Develop General Methods for the Australia Asymmetric Sythesis of Chiral and Prof G.D. Calvert Acyclic Amines $33,500 Chnical Studies of Plasma Lipid Medical Engineering Research Transfer Protein $26,054 Association Commonwealth Department of Dr G.G. Wallace and Dr M. Smyth Health Development of Novel Biochemical A/Prof C. Ewan Sensors $4,000 Healthy Cities AustraUa Project $52,000 BHP Coated Products Physics Dr G.G. Wallace Synthesis and Evaluation of New Australian Institute of Nuclear Polymeric Coatings on Non-Ferrous Science and Engineering Substrates $14,500 Dr J.N. Mathur Calculation of the Energy Spectrum Dept of Defence Support of Neutrons Released in Fission Using Dr G.G. WaUace the Cascade Evaporation Model $700 Defence Feasibility Studies $10,640 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works Dr G.G. Wallace Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Development of a Chloramine Sensor $8,050 Computing Science CIG Hytec Texas Instruments Technology Awards Dr G.G. WaUace Mr J. Fulcher CR (III) & CR (IV) Sensors $4,400 Midi Interface System $5,500 Dionex Corporation Dr G.G. Wallace Development of New Analytical Centres Concepts and Devices $11,000 Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Geography and Industrial Automation Australian Institute of Nuclear Department of Education, Science and Engineering Employment and Training Dr EA. Bryant and A/Prof R.W. Establishment of the Centre for Young Advanced Manufacturing and Dating of Rock Platform Formation $3,200 Industrial Automation $186,000 National Estate Program 1987/88 Centre for Multicultural Studies Dr K. MUls Department of Community Services Illawarra Regional Rainforest and Health Conservation Strategy $10,000 Ms C. Alcorso National Parks and Wildlife Drug and Alcohol Intervention in a Ms A.L. O'NeiU Multi-ethnic Society—Phone In $1,700 Thematic Mapper Landsat Image for NSW Department of Education the Production of Classified Images Ms M. Kalantzis and Mr W. W. Cope in the Kosciusko Region $2,500 K-12 Writing Document Project $6,000 Geology NSW Office of Minister of the Arts Natural Sciences and Engineering Mr M. Morrissey Research Council Camivale Project $3,600 Dr M. Gibling Defence Public Relations Unit Alluvial Sedimentation in Coal Basins 57,065 Mr M. Morrissey Female and Ethnic Attitudes to Defence $80,000 78 Commonwealth State Territories Centre for Work and Labour Research Program Market Studies Prof S.C. Castles, Mr M. Morrissey South Coast Employment and Ms C. Alcorso Development Project Ltd Recognition of Overseas Trade Dr J. Mangan Qualifications Study $49,910 Dolgas Decon Model Project $6,000 Commonwealth Dept of Health NSW Department of Education Ms C. Alcorso Dr R. Markey, Prof J.S. Hagan and Drug and Alcohol Intervention in a Prof S.C. Castles Muld-ethnic Society $45,436 Work Studies in the Curriculum $35,000 Department of Immigration NSW Labour Council Mr M. Morrissey Dr R. Markey Measurement Effectiveness Study $29,067 History of the Labour Council of Office of Multicultural Affairs NSW $57,000 Ms C. Alcorso School of Mines Consultancy on Non-English-speaking Immigrant Women in the Workforce $17,674 Department of Education, Employment and Training Prof S.C. Castles, Ms C. Alcorso and Establishment of the Australian Mr M. Morrissey School of Mines $220,000 Migrant Employment and Training and Industry Restructuring $7,000 Mr M. Morrissey Migrant Self-Employment and Economic Restructuring $45,000 Mr M. Morrissey Economics of Multicultural Education $26,825 79 UNIVERSITY ENRICHED BY TWO EXTRAORDINARY DONATIONS uring the year the University's collection I of rare books and artifacts was enriched ' by two quite extraordinary donations. D One consisted of a collection of 1,100 books from the personal library of Emeritus Professor John Passmore. The other was the presentation, by Professor Howard Worner CBE, of a collection of Japanese works of art. Professor Passmore's distinguished career includes visiting lectureships at Princeton and Rutgers, visiting fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and All Souls, Oxford, and visiting professor at Brandeis University. He was President, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1975-77, editor of the Australian Journal of Philosophy, 1947-49, and Director of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust from 1958 to Treasure trove indeed. The collection donated to the Vnnersily by Emeritus Professor John Passmore 1966. His publications include: A Hundred amounts to 1,100 books. One of Australia's foremost Years of Philosophy (1957), Philosophical scholars. Professor Passmore was more than a prolific Reasoning (1961), American Scholarship (1964), author He was also editor of the Australian Journal of Philosophy/rom 1947 to 1949 and director of the Joseph Priestly (1965), The Perfectibility of Man Elizabethan Theatre Trust from 1958 to 1966 (1970), Man's Responsibility for Nature (1974), 80 Science and its Critics (1978), The Philosophy of Teaching (1980), The Limits of Government (1981) and Recent Philosophers (1985) Professor Passmore was awarded the Mackie Medal for contributions to Philosophy in 1965 and has been Chief Editor of the Bertrand Russell Project, McMaster University, since 1984. He has been Professor of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University, since 1955 and is currently Emeritus Professor Professor Passmore's library reflects the breadth of scholarship of his working life and also his wide-ranging interests. The first part of the donation, mainly general educational, social science and philosophical works, was received in 1984. The present donation, valued at over $16,000, includes rare and significant philosophical works, some history of psychology and writings on various social issues. The Technical and Circulation Services Librarian, Felicity McGregor, who has been in touch with Professor Passmore since 1981, says •••HHk that although Professor Passmore was anxious Professor Howard Worner at the handing-over ceremony of his valuable collection of Japanese art, for WoUongong University to benefit from his comprising original works, prints from the 18th collection, rather than the rather-better- century, and coloured wood blocks . . . Among the endowed ANU, he was understandably reluctant great Japanese artists represented in the compilation to part with the books he has collected during are Hockusai (with a folio of works) and Hiroshige his lifetime. Professor Lauchlan Chipman, who is both Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Library Committee, commented: 'It is difficult to imagine a better gift for a university where Philosophy is still in its infancy. The collection The collection by Professor Worner (director of will provide considerable enrichment for post the Microwave Applications Research Centre at graduate researchers, while supplementing the the University), includes prints and original basic stock for undergraduate teaching. works by Japanese artists from the 18th century 'Even if we had the money, which of course we to contemporary times. Most of them were pre do not, we could not have created this sented to Professor Worner—an admirer of collection. Most of the books are now out of oriental art — during his term of office as print, and some editions go back to the Chairman of the Victorian Brown Coal seventeenth century. It can only enhance Council. Wollongong's attractiveness as a place in which Among the works presented by Professor to undertake research in the humanities and Worner are miscellaneous coloured wood blocks social sciences in general, and Philosophy in and a folio of works by Hockusai and particular' Hiroshige, two of Japan's truly great artists. Among the coloured landscape blocks is Hosakai's A Scene of Surugadai Waterway (1810-15). Only one or two of its original prints exist. Professor Worner is interested in contributing to aspects of the University community beyond the boundaries of his scientific interests. He is also providing funds for an annual sculpture com petition, the works from which will be permanently displayed on campus. 81 1988 AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT GRANTS STAFF AND STUDENT STATISTICS DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS AWARDED Australian Government grants 45 • 1 40 " 35" 30 25 "^ Bm 20 15 5 _ «— — 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 • Annual Grant o Current Prices Degrees and Diplomas, 1988 totals Non-Award .|^g Higher Degree Undergraduate Diplomas 447 711 Other Postgraduate 632 82 Funding, EFTSU, 1984-1988 8000 $ :j 6000 I i I 4000 I .1 2000 I i| i I ID OS 00 OD CO 00 00 00 Ol CT> Ol D EFTSU Q$C88)perEFTSU I Degrees and Diplomas, 1988 percentages A/on-Award . Q Higher Degree Undergraduate Diplomas 8.9 Other Postgraduate 7.9 83 Growth in student population 8000 6000 4000 2000 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Enrolment by age 8000 6000 4000 2000 •* 10 CD 00 00 CO CO 00 CO cn a> a> CD D <21 u 30-39 n 21-25 u 49-49 D 26-29 u >49 84 Proportional enrolment by region, 1985-1988 100 / y / / 80 ^ 60 c / 0) o / D. 40 20 / 1985 1986 1987 1988 • Illawarra • South Coast [] Southern Sydney • Other NSW Q Other Sydney • Interstate & Overseas Enrolment Summary, 1984-1988 8000 Non-Award Undergrad diploma Bachelor Degree 6000 4000 2000 Other Postgraduate Higher Degree 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 85 Full-time and fractional full-time staff 600 500 400 n 1984 n 1985 D 1986 D 1987 300 n 1988 200 100 under 50 0 2225^ ^"^ ^"^^. r^ viS' <:*• ^ ^ ^^ V-V 86 ENROLMENTS IN UNIVERSITY COURSES 1988 By Course, Sex and Attendance Mode Full-Time Part-Time Doctor of Philosophy Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Creative Arts 4 3 7 2 1 3 6 4 10 English 4 1 5 1 1 2 — — — 5 2 7 History & Politics 4 3 7 7 2 9 — — — 11 5 16 Languages — — — 1 — 1 — — — 1 — 1 Multicultural Studies — — — 1 — 1 — _ _ 1 — 1 Philosophy 1 - 1 — — — — — — 1 — 1 Psychology 2 7 9 2 3 5 — — — 4 10 14 Sociology — 2 2 — — — — — — — 2 2 STS 8 1 9 3 - 3 - - - 11 1 12 Faculty of Arts 23 17 40 17 7 24 _ _ _ 40 24 64 Economics 3 3 1 1 4 4 Industrial & Admin. Studies — — — 1 1 2 — — _ 1 1 2 Management 3 - 3 4 2 6 - - - 7 2 9 — — — Faculty of Commerce 6 — 6 6 3 9 L *^ 3 15 Faculty of Education 2 1 3 15 9 24 — — — 17 10 27 Civil and Mining Engineering 10 4 14 6 6 16 4 20 Elect. & Comp. Engineering 9 2 11 2 — 2 — — — 11 2 13 Mechanical Engineering 3 — 3 5 — 5 — — — 8 — 8 Metal & Materials Engineering 7 2 9 4 - 4 - - - 11 2 13 Faculty of Engineering 29 8 37 17 — 17 — — — 46 8 54 Computing Science 2 2 2 2 Mathematics - 1 1 - 1 1 - ~ - - 2 2 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences — 1 1 2 1 3 — — — 2 2 4 Biology 5 6 11 2 2 7 6 13 Chemistry 9 1 10 3 1 4 _ _ _ 12 2 14 Geography 4 1 5 2 — 2 _ _ _ 6 1 7 Geology 8 2 10 7 — 7 _ _ _ 15 2 17 Health Science — 1 1 5 4 9 — — — 5 5 10 Physics 3 1 4 2 - 2 - - - 5 1 6 Faculty of Science 29 12 41 21 5 26 — — — 50 17 67 COURSE TOTAL 89 39 128 78 25 103 — — — 167 64 231 Doctorates Full-Time Part-Time External Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Creative Arts 8 4 12 2 — 2 - - - 10 4 14 Psychology 3 4 7 3 4 7 Faculty of Arts 8 4 12 5 4 9 — — — 13 8 21 COURSE TOTAL 8 4 12 5 4 9 — — — 13 8 21 87 Full-Time Part-Time External Total Masters by Research Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Creative Arts 2 4 6 2 1 3 4 5 9 English - 4 4 2 3 5 - - - 2 7 9 History & Politics — — — 3 1 4 — — ~ 3 1 4 Languages 1 — 1 — — — — — ~ 1 — 1 Multicultural Studies — 2 2 — — — _ _ — — 2 2 Philosophy - - - 1 1 2 - - — 1 1 2 Psychology 1 — 1 — — — — — — 1 — 1 Sociology 1 - 1 1 ^ 1 — — — 2 — 2 STS — — — 1 — 1 — — — 1 — 1 Faculty of Arts 5 10 15 10 6 16 — — — 15 16 31 Accountancy & Legal Studies 1 ^ 1 1 1 1 1 2 Economics — 1 1 1 — 1 — — — 1 1 2 Management 1 -- 1 1 — 1 — ^ — 2 — 2 Faculty of Commerce 2 1 3 2 1 3 — — — 4 2 6 Faculty of Education 2 1 3 2 13 15 — — — 4 14 18 Civil and Mining Engineering 3 3 1 1 __ _ 4 _ 4 Elect. & Comp. Engineering 3 - 3 3 - 3 - - - 6 - 6 Mechanical Engineering 3 — 3 4 — 4 — — — 7 — 7 Metal & Materials Engineering 4 3 7 5 1 6 — — — 9 4 13 Faculty of Engineering 13 3 16 13 1 14 — — — 26 4 30 Computing Science 1 1 1 1 _ ^ 1 1 2 Mathematics — — — 1 — 1 — — — 1 - 1 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences — 1 1 2 — 2 — — — 2 1 3 Biology 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 Chemistry 1 — 1 — — — — _ _ 1 — 1 Ceography 1 — \ 2 2 4 — — — 3 2 5 Geology 3 — 3 1 — 1 — — — 4 — 4 Health Science 2 5 7 3 3 6 - - - 5 8 13 Faculty of Science 8 6 14 6 6 12 — — — 14 12 26 COURSE TOTAL 30 22 52 35 27 62 — — — 65 49 114 Masters by Coursework Philosophy 1 — 1 — — — — — — 1 — 1 Psychology 1 — 1 10 8 18 — — — 11 8 19 STS 6 3 9 9 3 12 - - - 15 6 21 Faculty of Arts 8 3 11 19 11 30 — — — 27 14 41 Economics 1 1 2 1 1 2 Management 1 - 1 - - - - 1 - 1 Faculty of Commerce 1 — 1 1 1 2 — — — 2 1 3 88 Full-Time PartTime External Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Faculty of Education — 1 1 1 5 6 — — — 1 6 7 Civil and Mining Engineering 3 3 7 - 7 - - - 10 - 10 Mechanical Engineering 1 1 3 3 4 4 Faculty of Engineering 4 — 4 10 — 10 — — — 14 — 14 Computing Science 1 1 - - - 1 1 Mathematics : 2 1 3 2 1 3 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences — 1 1 2 1 3 2 2 4 Geology 2 - 2 8 8 - - - 10 10 Health Science 1 1 2 1 1 2 Faculty of Science 2 — 2 9 1 10 — — — 11 1 12 COURSE TOTAL 15 5 20 42 19 61 — — — 57 24 81 Masters—Preliminary Creative Arts 1 1 1 1 English 1 1 1 1 History & Politics 1 1 1 1 Multicultural Studies 1 1 - - - 1 1 Philosophy 2 1 3 2 1 3 Psychology 4 1 5 4 1 5 STS 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 4 Faculty of Arts 4 2 6 7 3 10 — — — 11 5 16 Accountancy & Legal Studies 1 - 1 1 1 Economics 1 1 2 - - ~ 1 1 2 Management 2 2 2 2 Faculty of Commerce 3 — 3 1 1 2 — — — 4 1 5 Faculty of Education 1 1 2 1 3 4 — — — 2 4 6 Civil and Mining Engineering 2 2 1 1 - - - 3 3 Mechanical Engineering 2 2 - 2 2 Metal & Materials Engineering 2 2 4 2 2 4 Faculty of Engineering 6 2 8 1 — 1 — — — 7 2 9 Computing Science — — — 6 — 6 — — — 6 — 6 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences . 6 6 — 6 — 6 Biology 1 1 1 1 Chemistry 1 1 1 1 2 2 Geology 15 2 17 - - - 15 2 17 Heahh Science 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 3 5 Faculty of Science 17 3 20 2 3 5 _ _ _ 19 6 25 COURSE TOTAL 31 8 39 18 10 28 — — — 49 18 67 89 ] 'ull-Time Part-Time Externa! Total Other Masters Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Creative Arts 8 7 15 5 6 11 13 13 26 History & Politics 1 1 - " - 1 1 Languages 1 1 1 1 Psychology 1 2 3 1 8 9 2 10 12 Sociology 1 1 2 1 1 2 Faculty of Arts 10 9 19 7 16 23 — — — 17 25 42 Accountancy & Legal Studies 10 2 12 3 1 4 - - - 13 3 16 Management 5 1 6 92 17 109 97 18 115 Faculty of Commerce 15 3 18 95 18 113 — — — 110 21 131 Faculty of Education 1 1 2 34 31 65 — — — 35 32 67 Computing Science — 1 1 5 1 6 _ _ _ 5 2 7 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences — 1 1 5 1 6 5 2 7 Chemistry 1 1 1 1 Geography 2 1 3 2 1 3 Geology 1 1 - - - 1 1 Health Science 1 9 10 5 5 1 14 15 Faculty of Science I 10 11 3 6 9 — — — 4 16 20 COURSE TOTAL 27 24 51 144 72 216 — — — 171 96 267 Postgraduate Diploma Languages 3 6 9 3 6 9 Philosophy 1 1 2 1 3 - - - 3 1 4 Sociology 1 - 1 1 1 STS 1 1 1 1 Faculty of Arts 3 — 3 5 7 12 — — — 8 7 15 Accountancy & Legal Studies 4 4 8 7 1 8 11 5 16 Economics 1 1 1 1 2 2 Industrial & Admin. Studies 1 2 3 41 15 56 - - - 42 17 59 Management 20 10 30 20 10 30 Faculty of Commerce 6 6 12 69 26 95 _ _ _ 75 32 107 Faculty of Education 16 49 65 11 17 28 12 48 60 39 114 153 Metal & Materials Engineering — — — 1 — 1 — __ — 1 — 1 Faculty of Engineering — — — 1 — 1 _ _ _ 1 — 1 Computing Science 4 - 4 13 13 - - - 17 17 Mathematics 2 2 4 2 2 4 Faculty of Mathematical Sciences 4 4 15 2 17 19 2 21 Geology — - - 1 - 1 — — — 1 — ) Faculty of Science — — — 1 — 1 — — — 1 — 1 COURSE TOTAL 29 55 84 102 52 154 12 48 60 143 155 298 90 Full-Time Bachelor Degree Part-Time External Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total BA 368 519 887 159 286 445 _ _ — 527 805 1332 BA(Hons) 14 17 31 8 17 25 — — — 22 34 56 BCA 75 123 198 5 13 18 — — — 80 136 216 BlnfoTechCom 58 24 82 16 3 19 - - - 74 27 101 Faculty of Arts 515 683 1198 188 319 507 — — — 703 1002 1705 BCom 148 120 268 40 33 73 188 153 341 BCom-Accy 160 147 307 110 53 163 — — — 270 200 470 BCom-BusSystAnalysis 2 3 5 2 3 5 - - - 4 6 10 BCom-Econ 34 21 55 18 13 31 — — — 52 34 86 BCom-lndRel 2 - 2 3 — 3 — — — 5 — 5 BCom-Mgt 22 24 46 22 8 30 — — — 44 32 76 BCom(Hons)-Econ 3 3 6 — — — - - - 3 3 6 Faculty of Commerce 371 318 689 195 110 305 — — — 566 428 994 BEd-Phy/HlthEd 69 69 138 7 1 8 76 70 146 BEd-Phy/HlthEd-Conversion — — — — — — 30 27 57 30 27 57 BEd(PrimaTy) 46 239 285 5 14 19 — — — 51 253 304 BEd(Primary)-Conversion — — — — — — 81 303 384 81 303 384 BEd(Secondary)-Eng/Hist 26 48 74 2 2 4 - - — 28 50 78 BEd(Secondary)-Eng/Hist-Con. — — — — — — 3 3 6 3 3 6 BEd(Secondary)-Math 18 23 41 1 3 4 — — — 19 26 45 BEd{Secondary)-Math-Con. — — ~ — — — 4 — 4 4 — 4 BEd(Secondary)-Science 2 2 4 — 1 1 — — — 2 3 5 Faculty of Education 161 381 542 15 21 36 118 333 451 294 735 1029 BE-Civil 227 12 239 61 6 67 288 18 306 BE-Civil/Mining 2 — 2 1 — 1 — — — 3 — 3 BE-Computer 55 2 57 51 — 51 - - — 106 2 108 BE-Electrical 188 8 196 131 11 142 — — — 319 19 338 BE-Materials 35 4 39 37 6 43 — — — 72 10 82 BE-Mechanical 154 3 157 152 1 153 — — — 306 4 310 BE-Mining 25 — 25 13 — 13 — — — 38 — 38 BE/BCom 4 — 4 1 — 1 _ — — 5 — 5 BMath/BE 5 1 6 1 - 1 - -- - 6 1 7 Faculty of Engineering 695 30 725 448 24 472 — — — 1143 54 1197 BMath 162 77 239 121 38 159 283 115 398 BMath(Hons) 5 3 8 1 1 2 - - - 6 4 10 Faculty of Mathematical Science 167 80 247 122 39 161 — — — 289 119 408 BAppSci-Human Movement 58 55 113 8 8 16 66 63 129 BEnvSci 48 17 65 13 3 16 — — — 61 20 81 BEnvSci{Hons) 2 2 4 — — _. — — — 2 2 4 BNursing — — — 3 12 15 — - - 3 12 15 BSc 181 107 288 82 48 130 — — — 263 155 418 BSc(Hons) 10 9 19 2 2 4 — — — 12 11 23 BSc-Nutrition 1 20 21 - 2 2 - - - 1 22 23 Faculty of Science 300 210 510 108 75 183 — — — 408 285 693 COURSE TOTAL 2209 1702 3911 1076 588 1664 118 333 451 3403 2623 6026 Non-Award Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total BEd(Primary)-Bridging _ 17 43 60 17 43 60 Miscellaneous 1 2 3 47 38 85 - — — 48 40 88 1 2 3 47 38 85 17 43 60 65 83 148 91 Full-Time Part-Time External Total Diploma Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total DipTeach(Primary)-Conversion ^ — — — — - 3 63 66 3 63 66 Faculty of Education 3 63 66 3 63 66 DipAppSci(Nursing) 44 223 267 10 10 20 - - 54 233 287 DipAppSci(Nursing)-Conversion 4 29 33 : 4 29 33 Faculty of Science 44 223 267 14 39 53 — — — 58 262 320 COURSE TOTAL 44 223 267 14 39 53 3 63 66 61 325 386 Associate Diploma Ass ocDipArts-Performing 1 _ 1 . _ . __ 1 _ 1 Faculty of Arts 1 — 1 1 — 1 AssocDipCompApplicns 56 23 79 56 13 69 112 36 148 AssocDipAdmin(CompApplic) 1 1 3 1 4 - - 4 1 5 AssocDipAdmin(Industrial) 3 3 51 34 85 - 54 34 88 AssocDipAdmin(SmlBusMgt) 1 1 1 1 AssocDipAdmin(Waste Control) 5 5 5 5 Faculty of Commerce 60 23 83 116 48 164 — — — 176 71 247 AssocDipSportsSc 32 29 61 13 3 16 — — — 45 32 77 Faculty of Science 32 29 61 13 3 16 — — — 45 32 77 COURSE TOTAL 93 52 145 129 51 180 — — — 222 103 325 Full-Time Part-Time External Total Total University Enrolments Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total 2576 2136 4712 1690 925 2615 150 487 637 4416 3548 7964 92 APPOINTMENTS, TERMINATIONS AND PROMOTIONS Appointments Grade Appointments Grade FACULTY OF ARTS School of Industrial and Department of English Administrative Studies Mr D. Davis Senior Lecturer Mr M. Atkins Lecturer Mr E. Gould Lecturer Department of History and Politics Ms H. Hasan Lecturer Ms M. Beresfara Lecturer Dr B.F. Kiernan Senior Lecturer FACULTY OF EDUCATION Dr A.D. Wells Lecturer School of Policy and Technology Studies Department of Psychology Ms A.S. Elliot Lecturer Dr D.F. Brown Lecturer Dr P.A. Smith Senior Lecturer School of Learning Studies Dr S. Srinivasan Lecturer Ms D.M. Konza Lecturer Mr J. Wragg Lecturer Department of Science and FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Technology Studies Department of Electrical and Computer Dr B.L. Martin Lecturer Engineering Dr S. Russell Lecturer Dr G.J. Anido Lecturer Mr K. White Lecturer Mr F. Coowar Visiting Teaching Fellow Mr B.S.P. Perera Lecturer Department of Sociology Mr V.H. Tu Visiting Teaching Fellow Ms S. Short Lecturer Ms E. Vasta Lecturer Department of Mechanical Engineering Dr P. Cooper Lecturer School of Creative Arts Dr LS. Jawahir Lecturer Mr R. Pretty Senior Lecturer Dr E. Siores Lecturer Ms S.E. Rowley Lecturer Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering FACULTY OF COMMERCE Mr U. Buecher Lecturer Department of Accountancy and Mrs S.A. Nightingale Lecturer Legal Studies Mr D.J.R Considine Lecturer Mrs K.A. Cooper Lecturer FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL Mr A. Coote Teaching Fellow SCIENCES Prof M. Gaffikin Professor Department of Computing Science Ms M.M. Greenwell Lecturer Mr R. Atkinson Lecturer Mr R. Lam Teaching Fellow Dr J.J. Korozak Senior Lecturer Mrs C. Plumbridge Visiting Teaching Fellow Mr A. Zelinsky Lecturer Department of Economics Department of Mathematics Mr E.J. Wilson Lecturer Mrs B. Evans Teaching Fellow DrJ.E. Fernandez-Pol Lecturer Dr G. Goleniewski National Research Fellow Dr C.L Nyland Lecturer Dr B.R. Jefferies Lecturer Department of Management Mrs J. A. Trotter Teaching Fellow Dr A.B. Sim Lecturer Dr R. Sparks Lecturer 93 I^HBftCft^<: Appointments Grade Appointments Grade FACULTY OF SCIENCE School of Health Sciences Dr M. Anshel Senior Lecturer Department of Biology Mr J.M. Brown Lecturer Mrs P. Lake Lecturer Dr K.E. Chad Lecturer Mr M. Coleman Lecturer Department of Chemistry Ms J.M. Cooper Lecturer Dr J.A. Carver Lecturer Dr S.J. Hand Lecturer Mr H. Zhao Visiting Lecturer Ms M.L. Gerry Lecturer Mrs R.D. Griffiths Lecturer Department of Geography Ms M.A. Lynch Senior Lecturer Dr H.P. Winchester Lecturer Ms J. Marshall Lecturer Dr CD. Woodroffe Lecturer Ms L.B. Newman Lecturer Dr S.B. Woodroffe Research Associate Dr M.L. Shuer Lecturer Dr A.R.M. Young Lecturer Dr M.A. Stile Research Associate Department of Geology Dr P.G. Thomas Lecturer A. Prof R.G. Burdon Associate Professor Ms M.C. Wallace Lecturer Mrs L.F. Wheeler Lecturer Department of Physics Mr G. Piao Visiting Lecturer Aboriginal Education Unit Dr S. Shanahan Lecturer Mr R.J. Randall Lecturer Terminations Grade FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ARTS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of History and Politics Dr Z. Herceg Dr A.M. Healy Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Mr R.M. Howard Mr E.P. Johnston Lecturer (Deceased) Visiting Teaching Fellow Mr Y. Si Dr F.D. Marengo Senior Lecturer Visiting Lecturer Mr C.S. Yu Teaching Fellow Department of Philosophy Mr B. Zhao Visiting Lecturer Dr L.J. Splitter Lecturer Department of Metallurgy and Materials Department of Psychology Engineering Dr S.L. Chow Senior Lecturer Mrs S. Sun Visiting Lecturer School of Creative Arts Department of Mechanical Engineering Mr R. Hollands Principal Lecturer Dr S. Rajagopalan Lecturer FACULTY OF COMMERCE FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Department of Accountancy and Legal Studies Department of Computing Science Mr B.H. Andrew Senior Lecturer Mr R. Atkinson Lecturer Mr A. Coote Senior Lecturer Mrs H.Y. Ho Visiting Teaching Fellow Dr F. Gul Reader Department of Mathematics Mr J.R. Hall Teaching Fellow Ms J. Goara Teaching Fellow Prof J. B. Ryan Professor Dr A.L Lee Research Fellow Mr G. Shiu Visiting Teaching Fellow Department of Economics Dr M. Bray Lecturer Ms S. Hopkins Teaching Fellow Mr D. Pensiero Teaching Fellow 94 FACULTY OF SCIENCE Department of Biology Mrs RM. Lake Lecturer Mrs R. Muston Lecturer Department of Chemistry Mrs R. Griffith Research Associate Department of Geography Dr C.L. Keys Lecturer Dr A.R.M. Young Lecturer Department of Physics Or K.S. Cheng Lecturer School of Health Sciences Ms K. Barry Lecturer Dr M. Shuer Lecturer Promotions Name Status Department Dr V.H. Tran Reader Economics DrJ.M. Wieland Reader English Dr E.Y. Baafi Senior Lecturer Civil and Mining Engineering Dr R.J. Badham Senior Lecturer Science and Technology Studies Dr V.J. Cincotta Associate Professor Languages Miss D.L.M. Jones Associate Professor English Dr R.A. Markey Associate Professor Economics Mr J. Steinke Associate Professor Economics Dr A. Boag Senior Lecturer Health Sciences Mr P Dawes Senior Lecturer Management Dr D.S. Hawley Senior Lecturer Languages Dr I.S. Jawahir Senior Lecturer Mechanical Engineering Dr G.J. Montagner Senior Lecturer Mechanical Engineering Dr R Webb Senior Lecturer Policy and Technology Studies 95 STUDY AND OVERSEAS CONFERENCE LEAVE IN EXCESS OF TWO WEEKS Department/School/ Centre Member Principal locat FACULTY OF ARTS Creative Arts Prof E. Cowie UK/Europe English Dr L. Jayamanne Sri Lanka Mr R. McConchie UK A/Prof J. Wieland Australia History and Politics Dr I. McLaine UK/USA Dr F.S. Piggin UK/USA Languages Dr V.J. Cincotta Italy Multicultural Studies Prof S. Castles USA Philosophy Dr H. Beran UK/Europe Psychology Dr G. Huon USA Prof W.J. Lovegrove USA Dr N. Mackay UK/USA Dr B.M. Walker UK/Australia Science and Technology Dr E. Richards UK Studies Dr J. Schuster UK Sociology Dr R D'Alton Australia Dr T. Jagtenberg Australia FACULTY OF COMMERCE Accountancy and Legal Ms M. Greenwell Europe Studies Mr R. Handley UK/Europe Mr J. Jackson Hong Kong/UK Dr V.K. Wan Australia Economics Dr S. Ali Philippines Dr J. Mangan Germany Dr R. Markey Europe Dr D. O'Brien Australia/Indonesia Management Mr P. Dawes UK/USA Mr CR. Home UK/Australia FACULTY OF EDUCATION Learning Studies Mr E.O. Booth UK/USA Ms J. Wright Australia 96 Department/School/ Centre Member Principal location FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Civil and Mining Engineering Dr M. Boyd Australia A/Prof R. Chowdhury Switzerland A/Prof Y.C. Loo China Dr V.U. Nguyen USA Dr Y.W, Wong UK/USA Electrical and Computer A/Prof K. McLean Papua New Guinea Engineering Dr D. Piatt USA/Australia Mechanical Engineering Dr LS. Jawahir Japan Mr B. Moore UK/Europe Dr A.G. McLean Australia Dr W.K. Soh Australia Mr P. Wypych UK/Europe FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Computing Science Mr R Castle UK/USA Dr R.F. Hille Switzerland Mathematics A/Prof M. Bunder Europe Dr RG. Laird Australia/Canada Dr K. Tognetti Italy FACULTY OF SCIENCE Biology A/Prof R. Lilley USA Dr H. Spencer USA Chemistry Dr S.G. Pyne Europe Dr R. Truscott UK Dr G.G. Wallace UK/USA Geology Mr J. Pemberton Australia Health Sciences Dr P. Milburn New Zealand Mr T. Penrose USA/Canada Ms J. Pincombe Australia Mr F. Yuen Australia Physics Dr K.J. Duff USA Professor P. Fisher Europe/USA Dr C. Freeth New Zealand DrJ. Mathur Australia 97 COUNCIL 1988 ATTENDANCE Possible Attended Apology/ Possible Attended Apology/ Leave Leave Ex-Officio Elected by Convocation The Hon Mr Justice Mr J.W. Dombroski 5 3 1 R.M. Hope 6 6 Mr K.W. Phipps 6 5 Professor K.R. McKinnon 6 5 1 Dr W.J. Mitchell 6 6 Professor P.D. Rousch 6 6 Mr G.R. Ryan 6 5 1 Elected by Legislative Elected by the Full-time Council Academic Staff of the Mr N.L. King 1 1 University The Hon. E.P. Pickering, Professorial 9 MLC 4 2 Members Professor R.C King 6 6 Elected by Legislative Professor M.G.A. Wilson 5 4 1 Assembly Professor S. Castles 1 0 1 The Hon. L.B. Kelly 1 1 Mr C.J. Downy 4 3 Academic Staff other than Professors Dr M.J. Lowrey 6 6 Ministerial Nominees DrJ.R. Panter 6 6 Mr B.S. Gillett 6 6 Mr C. Denley 2 1 1 Elected by the Mrs E.M. Lynch 5 4 1 Institute Academic Staff Mr G. Roberts 5 0 1 Dr E. Booth 6 2 Mr CR Hollis 5 2 2 Mr W. Mowbray 5 4 Mr J.K. Ellis 6 4 2 Dr A. Smith 1 1 Ms J.E. Munro 5 5 Dr R. James 1 Mr A.C Evans 0 1 Elected by the Full-time Mrs S. Chapman 1 General Staff of the Ms R. Griffiths 1 University Mr H. Hanson 1 Mr F. McGregor 6 5 Mr R. Parker 6 5 Ms K. Rozmeta 5 4 Elected by Students of Mr A. Kent 1 1 the University Mr D. Brown 5 5 Mr P.L. Manning 6 5 1 Mr D. Morrissey 6 6 Ms M.D. Licardy 1 0 1 98 The University of WoUongong FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 31 DECEMBER 1988 AUDITOR-GENERAL'S CERTIFICATE The accounts of the University of WoUongong for the year ended 31 December 1988 have been audited in accordance with Section 34 of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983. In my opinion, the accompanying statement of balances, together with the combined statement of income and expenditure, funds statement and annexures A to I, read in conjunction with the notes thereto, comply with Section 41B of the Act and exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position at 31 December 1988, and transactions for the year then ended. ^^U-^Oi SYDNEY K. J. ROBSON, FASA, CPA 20 Apnl 1989 AUDITOR-GENERAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES STATEMENT BY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL Pursuant to Section 41 B(1)(f) of the Public Finance and Audit Act, 1983, and in accordance with a resolution of the members of the Council, we declare on behalf of the Council of The University of WoUongong that, subject to audit requirements, in our opinion: 1. The accompanying financial statements exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position of The University of WoUongong as at 31 December 1988 and transactions for the year then ended. 2. The statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance and Audit Act, 1983, and the Public Finance and Audit (Statutory Bodies) Regulation, 1985. Further, we are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial statements to be misleading or inaccurate. M ft. n^^L:^ . "^ A VICE-CHANCELLOR DEPUTY CHANCELLOR Date: 10 February 1989 99 STATEMENT OF BALANCES (ALL FUNDS) AT 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ Note Current Assets 6 19,430 Cash 20,530 1,563,120 Receivables 3,293,094 10,787,730 Investments 19 4,889,629 81,607 Inventories 1(d) 112,340 142,264 Other 75,546 12,594,151 TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 8,391,139 Non-Current Assets 7 20,836,213 Receivables 25,750,503 4,587,510 Investments 19 5,999,716 25,423,723 TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS 31,750,219 38,017,874 TOTAL ASSETS 40,141,358 Current Liabilities 8 2,535,194 Creditors and borrowings 3,578,854 150,995 Provisions 176,535 6,587,130 Other 1,527,006 9,273,319 TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 5,282,395 Non-Current Liabilities 1,242,588 Creditors and borrowings 9 1,167,171 Provision for Long Service Leave 15(ii) Estimated liability at 31/12/88 5,063,355 1,328,484 Less amount unprovided 1,525,092 3,538,263 22,613,606 Provision of State Superannuation 15(iii) 25,069,697 Provision of State Public Service 367,287 Superannuation 15(iv) 586,816 Provision for Professorial 1,006,184 Superannuation Scheme 15(1) 1,153,893 26,558,149 TOTAL NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES 31,515,840 35,831,468 TOTAL LIABILITIES 36,798,235 $2,186,406 NET ASSETS $3,343,123 ACCUMULATED FUNDS Annexure 490,097 DR General Recurrent Fund A 511,537 DR 766,817 DR Building Projects Grant C 459,589 Equipment Grant D 208,762 Research Grant E 51,843 1,280,722 Special Purpose Funds (Research) F 1,289,194 4,057,958 Other Special Purpose Funds G 4,519,849 261,601 DR Full Fee Courses H 33,683 2,093,348 DR Halls of Residence I 2,248,671 DR $2,186,406 $3,343,123 The Statement of Balances is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 100 ^ COMBINED STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ Note $ Income Commonwealth Government Grants 37,051,450 — Recurrent 22 39,837,676 - — Superannuation Productivity Supplementation 24 512,444 2,032,000 — Equipment 2,297,000 1,984,117 — Research 2,649,401 482,000 — Minor Building 505,000 3,632,000 - Capital Works 1,750,389 126,947 - Other 472,651 State Government Grants 83,000 — Conservatorium of Music 83,000 1,790,911 — Nurse Education 2,000,468 — Nurse Education—Building extensions and 650,000 alterations 36,000 162,349 — Research 137,448 51,792 - Other 4,170 775,494 Other Grants and Donations for Research 710,057 172,101 Scholarships and Prizes 102,224 3,056,368 Special Purpose Accounts 4,424,533 121,621 Full Fee Courses 782,108 1,939,500 Higher Education Administration Charge 21 2,030,360 1,157,071 Student Residences 1,801,796 1,968,033 Interest 2,178,819 412,923 Other Income 415,491 57,649,677 Total Income 62,731,035 Expenditure Recurrent 23,523,082 — Academic Activities 24,486,084 3,983,135 — Academic Services 4,126,314 553,637 — Student Services 985,102 10,497,159 — General University Services 11,000,403 739,064 — Public Services 632,975 Nurse Education —Building Extensions and 264,045 Alterations 677,986 1,838,075 Equipment Grant Purchases 2,547,827 3,052,450 Research 3,348,369 482,000 Minor Building Works 504,999 3,937,763 Major Building Works 1,925,155 194,837 Scholarships and Prizes 417,419 4,166,953 Special Purpose Accounts 4,354,041 383,222 Full Fee Courses 689,710 1,682,331 Student Residences 2,043,469 1,600,000 Property Purchase — — Provision for Doubtful Debts 15,500 521,678 Provision for Long Service Leave 409,730 30,000 Provision for Major Repairs and Replacements 45,000 41,289 Provision for Professorial Superannuation Scheme 57,988 733,995 Provision for State Superannuation 580,933 - Superannuation In-service Costs Hf )(ii) 2,118,291 58,224,715 Total Expenditure 60,967,295 575,038 DR Surplus for Year Prior to Adjustments 1,763,740 568,860 Less Interest Transferred to Provisions 606,734 1,143,898 DR Surplus 1,157,006 27,604 Less Prior Period Adjustment 289 1,116,294 DR Increase in Accumulated Funds 1,156,717 Add Writeback of Provision for State — Superannuation Fund 2,330,681 Less Transfer to Provision for Long - Service Leave 2,330,681 continued overleaf 101 continued from page 101 Add —Deferred Income due from Commonwealth/ 20,756,664 State Governments for Superannuation Liability 23 2,182,774 19,640,370 3,339,491 Less Increase in Employees' Accrued Entitlements for Superannuation — State Superannuation 15(iii) 2,011,780 — State Public Service Superannuation 15(iv) 170,994 2,182,774 19,640,370 1,156,717 Prior Period Adjustment: Unprovided Employees' Accrued Entitlement for Superannuation 41,989,820 as at 31/12/88 Decrease in Unprovided Employees' Accrued Entitlements for Superannuation as per Actuarial 21,233,156 Assessment as at 31/12/88 Adjustment in Unprovided Employees' Accrued Entitlements for Superannuation 386,394 20,756,664 386,394 1,116,294 DR Surplus for Year After Prior Period Adjustment 1,543,111 Less —Employees' Accrued Entitlements not provided for. Long Service Leave — Amount Transferred from Provision for Superannuation 2,330,681 — Less Decrease in Amount Provided 15(ii) 1,931,807 51,856 Increase in Amount Unprovided for Year 20 398,874 Surplus for Year After Adjustment to Reflect $1,168,150 DR Increase in the Unfunded Liabilities 20 $1,144,237 The Combined Statement of Income and Expenditure is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 102 IRCES AND APPLICATION OF FUNDS rUH THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ $ Sources of Funds Funds from Operations (A) 57,681,835 Inflows of Funcis from Operations 62,752,373 56,897,753 Less Outflows of Funds from Operations 59,858,433 784,082 2,893,940 20,756,664 Deferred Income 2,569,168 Adjustment for Transfer from Provision for Superannuation 2,330,681 21,540,746 7,793,789 Reduction in Assets Current Assets 949,772 Investments 5,898,101 Prepayments 66,718 446,491 Accrued Income 1,396,263 5,964,819 Non-Current Assets 1,814 Loans to Staff 1,814 Increase in Liabilities Current Liabilities 294,415 Creditors and Accrued Expenses 956,163 726,361 Income Received in Advance Unsecured Advance 150,000 1,020,776 1,106,163 Non-Current Liabilities Unsecured Advance 150,000 $23,959,599 Total Sources of Funds $15,014,771 Application of Funds Increase in Assets Current Assets 650 Cash on Hand 1,100 27,785 Semi-Government Securities 226,253 Debtors 571,668 16,905 Prepayments ^Accrued Income 1,090,130 242,877 Sundry Advances 83,676 2,077 Stock 30,733 516,547 1,777,307 Non-Current Assets 1,250,940 Investments 1,412,206 20,756,664 Amount Owing by Commonwealth/State Governn^ients 4,899,849 Loans to Staff 14,441 22,007,604 6,326,496 Reduction in Liabilities Current Liabilities 183,388 Bank Overdraft 62,503 5,563 Secured Loans Income Received in Advance 5,060,124 1,951 5,122,627 Non-Current Liabilities 200,182 Secured Loans 225,4117 312,313 Long Service Leave Paid 712,737 661,989 State Superannuation Paid 777,310 44,344 Professorial Pensions and Refund Contributions Paid 53,417 27,669 Major Repairs and Replacements Paid 19,460 1,046,315 1,562,924 $23,959,599 Total Application of Funds $15,014,771 (A) NOTES: Reconciliation of Funds from Operations with Deficit for Year. 784,082 Funds from Operations 2.893,940 Less: 568,860 Interest Received on Provisions 606,734 4,554 Employee Contributions to Professorial Superannuation 6,333 Provisions 521,678 — Long Service Leave 409,730 30,000 — Major Repairs and Replacements 45,000 41,289 — Professorial Superannuation 57,988 733,995 — State Superannuation 580,933 — Doubtful Debts 15,500 Transfer from ANU for LSL 15,005 1,900,376 1,737,223 $1,116,294DR Increase in Accumulated Funds $1,156,717 The Statement of Sources and Applications of Funds is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 103 ANNEXURE A GENERAL RECURRENT FUND STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1< $ Note $ Income Commonwealth Government Grant 37,051,450 - Operating Grant 22 39,837,676 - - Superannuation Productivity Supplementation 24 512,444 1,873,911 State Government Grants 2,083,468 1,745,550 Higher Education Administration Charge 21 1,827,324 235,683 Tuition Fees-WoUongong Conservatorium of Music 246,623 177,240 Miscellaneous 168,868 — Transfer from Special Services Account 131,738 .41,083,834 44,808,141 Expenditure 24,407,005 Academic Activities 2 26,772,324 4,085,846 Academic Services 3 4,320,860 718,378 Student Services 4 987,548 11,147,994 General University Services 5 12,080,399 743,009 Public Services 652,638 41,102,232 44,813,769 18,398 Deficit for Year 5,628 27,604 CR Add Adjustment for Prior Years 15,812 9,206 CR Deficit for Year After Adjustments 21,440 499,303 Accumulated Deficiency at 1 January 1988 490,097 $490,097 Deficiency at 31 December 1988 $511,537 This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. ANNEXURE B MINOR BUILDING PROJECT GRANT STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ $ Income 482,000 Commonwealth Government Grant 505,000 Expenditure 482,000 Minor Building Projects, etc. 505,000 NIL Accumulated funds at 31 December 1988 NIL This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 104^ ANNEXURE C BUILDING PROJECTS GRANT STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ $ Income 3,132,000 Commonwealth Government Grant 1,750,389 250,256 Transfer from General Development Fund 'll6!402 - Transfer from Special Services Account 216,076 3,382,256 2,082,867 Expenditure 889,404 Administrative Building 75,225 2,984,617 Library Extensions 1,240,825 33,742 Science Engineering Building _ 3,907,763 1,316,050 525,507 DR Surplus for Year 766,817 241,310 Accumulated Deficiency at 1 January 1988 766,817 $766,817 Deficiency at 31 December 1988 NIL This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. ANNEXURE D SPECIAL EQUIPMENT GRANT STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ $ Income 2,032,000 Commonwealth Government Grant 2,297,000 Expenditure 1,168,147 New Equipment 1,191,800 3,813 Replacement Equipment 134,513 666,115 Computing 1,221,514 1,838,075 2,547,827 193,925 CR Deficit for Year 250,827 265,664 Accumulated Funds at 1 January 1988 459,589 $459,589 Accumulated Funds as at 31 December 1988 $208,762 NOTE: The accumulated balance is held for payment of commitments outstanding at year end. This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115, ANNEXURE E SPECIAL RESEARCH GRANT STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ $ Income 339,000 Commonwealth Government Grant 441,000 Expenditure 156,162 Salaries and Associated Charges 115,754 182,838 Maintenance (materials, etc.) 273,403 339,000 389,157 NIL Accumulated Funds at 31 December 1988 $51,843 This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 105 ANNEXURE F SPECIAL PURPOSE FUNDS (RESEARCH) STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ Note $ Income 601,859 Australian Research Grants Scheme 670,429 150,140 National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council 306,261 279,693 National Health and Medical Research Council 380,800 - School of Mines 110,350 — Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Automation 186,500 1,897,349 Other Grants and Donations 1,523,177 2,929,041 3,177,517 Expenditure 588,340 Australian Research Grants Scheme 683,334 171,222 National Energy and Research Development and Demonstration Council 359,116 288,277 National Health and Medical Research Council 366,348 — School of Mines 7,872 1,768,101 Other Grants and Donations 1,708,918 2.815,940 3,125,588 113,101 Surplus for Year 51,929 1,167,621 Accumulated Funds at 1 January 1988 25 1,237,265 $1,280,722 Accumulated Funds at 31 December 1988 $1,289,194 This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. ANNEXURE G OTHER SPECIAL PURPOSE FUNDS STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 Balance at Balance at 1 Jan. 1988 Income Expenditure 31 Dec. 1988 (refer Note 25) $ $ $ $ Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes 282,775 653,253 622,032 313,996 Special Services Appropriation Account 1,299,254 869,224 131,741 2,036 737 General Development Account 254,387 DR 783,486 129,066 '40o!o33 Professorial Superannuation Pension Scheme Managed Funds Accounts 215,731 424,339 - 640,070 Widows Annuity Accumulation Fund 84,143 17,134 2 605 98 672 •General 2,107,038 4,38^073 5,985!l61 502950 Trust and Working Accounts 366,862 161,253 724 527^391 $ 4,101,416 7,289,762 6,871,329 4,519,849 This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 106 ANNEXURE H FULL FEE COURSES STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ Note $ Income 121,621 Fees 782,108 — Export Market Development Grant 10 200,000 121,621 982,108 Expenditure 69,426 Academic Activities 188,168 313,796 Promotions and Student Attraction 402,933 - Student Services 111,246 383,222 702,347 261,601 DR Surplus for Year 279,761 Add Adjustment for Prior Year - - Export Market Development Grant 10 15,523 261,601 DR 295,284 - Accumulated Deficit at 1 January 1988 261,601 $261,601 DR Accumulated Funds at 31 December 1988 $33,683 This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. ANNEXUREI STUDENT RESIDENTIAL SYSTEM INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1987 1988 $ $ Income 988,960 Residential Fees 1,523,825 168,382 Transfer from Recurrent Funds 155,635 1,325,000 Transfer from General Development Account - 500,000 Commonwealth Government Grant — 173,111 Other 277,971 3,155,453 1,957,431 Expenditure 345,467 Administration 523,622 318,531 Cleaning and Maintenance 441,679 195,175 Loan Interest and Charges 197,140 361,327 Catering 603,672 4,519 Provision for Long Service Leave 13,425 30,000 Provision for Major Repairs and Replacements 45,000 — Rent 88,504 167,402 Refurbishment 55,141 294,429 Building Improvements 144,571 1,600,000 Property Purchase 3,316,850 2,112,754 161,397 Deficit for Year 155,323 1,931,951 Accumulated Deficiency at 1 January 1988 2,093,348 $2,093,348 Accumulated Deficiency at 31 December 1988 $2,248,671 This statement is to be read in conjunction with the notes to and forming part of the accounts on pages 108 to 115. 107 ANNEXURE J NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 1. SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES (a) Except for Stores Stocks, the accounts of the University have been prepared in accordance with the historical cost convention and have not been adjusted to take account of current costs. (b) In accordance with Sections 41 B(2) and41B(3)(a) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit (Statutory Bodies) Regulation 1985, approval has been granted to prepare financial statements on a modified accrual basis and to prepare a Statement of Balances instead of a Balance Sheet as the University, in line with general practice within the tertiary education sphere, does not capitalise assets and therefore does not charge depreciation in its accounts. In relation to all funds, the amounts payable for salaries between the last pay day for the year and 31 December, and for goods and services received prior to 31 December, are charged as an expense for the year. Income due, including interest earnings, is brought to account in the year to which it applies. In accordance with Section 41B!3)(b) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit (Statutory Bodies) Regulation 1985 approval has been granted to dispense with the preparation and inclusion of consolidated accounts in the financial statements of the University Separate reports are prepared on behalf of the subsidiaries and it is considered that no greater disclosure is achieved through consolidating their accounts with those of the University and that the results of consolidation could be misleading. The results from operations before extraordinary items, in respect of the subsidiaries, are as follow: Friends of the University of WoUongong Ltd 31 Dec. 1988 31 Dec. 1987 $ $ 12,104 (deficit) 24,839 (deficit) The Illawarra Technology Centre Ltd. 30 June 1988 30 June 1987 $ $ Company 310,451 (deficit) 128,082 (surplus) Group 716,551 (deficit) 457,508 (deficit) At 30 June 1988 the group included: (a) National Engineering Information Services Pty Ltd (Trading). 100% Holding (b) Vaneso Pty Ltd. Name changed in September 1988 to Transport Communication Australia Pty Ltd (Non-trading) 100% Holding The Automation and Engineering 30 June 1988 30 June 1987 Application Centre Ltd $ $ Company 2,977 (deficit) 83,802 (surplus) Group 39,794 (deficit) At 30 June 1988 the group included: Automation Extension Services Pty Ltd (Trading) 100% Holding WoUongong Uniadvice Ltd 31 Dec 1988 $ Company 41,202 (deficit) Group 76,648 (deficit) At 31 December 1988 the group included: a) Touba Pty Ltd (Trading) 100% Holding b) Ridgely Pty Ltd (Non-trading) 100% Holding c) Cesvan Pty Ltd (Non-trading) 100% Holding d) Calumet Pty Ltd (Non-trading) 100% Holding e) Sincan Pty Ltd (Non-trading) 100% Holding f) Intepe Pty Ltd (Non-trading) 100% Holding g) The Computations Institute 50% joint venture with Computations Group of Companies. WoUongong Uniadvice Ltd was incorporated on 29 December 1987 and dunng the current year Uniadvice activities previously undertaken by Friends of the University of WoUongong Ltd were transferred to the new company. Figures shown above for WoUongong Uniadvice Ltd are unaudited. (c) With the exception of Stores Stock, monetary assets only are carried forward in the Statement of Balances. Other non-monetary assets are written off in the year of purchase against the relevant fund. (d) Stock holdings in the University's Central Store were valued using the most recent purchase price as cost for each item. This is a departure from Accounting Standard AAS2 in relation to the Valuation and Presentation of Inventories in the context of the Historical Cost System but the amount involved is not considered to be material. 108 (e) The financial statements have been prepared to comply in all material respects with all other Australian Accounting Standards where they have been found to be applicable to the University. (f) (i) Income and expenditure relating to International House, Koolobong, Weerona and Campus East which were reported separately in prior years are now reported in total as student residences (Annexure I), (ii) In previous years, superannuation in-seri/ice costs were shown under various headings in the Combined Income and Expenditure statement. In 1988, this cost has been shown separately, (iii) No other changes have occurred in the University's accounting policies during the financial year. 2. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 1987 1988 $ $ Teaching and Research 18,977,125 Salaries 20,951,229 2,586,585 Salary Related Costs 3,041,301 1,596,447 Maintenance 1,676,953 323,581 Equipment 383,535 187,021 Conference and Study Leave 149,156 155,275 New Appointment Expenses 131,521 47,749 Other 41,518 23,873,783 TOTAL Teaching and Research 26,375,213 Research Only 236,112 Salaries 165,831 13,031 Salary Related Costs 8,217 144,295 Maintenance 105,259 139,784 Other 117,804 533,222 TOTAL Research 397,111 $24,407,005 TOTAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES $26,772,324 ACADEMIC SERVICES Library 1,439,777 Salaries 1,623,391 197,247 Salary Related Costs 235,678 1,034,068 Purchase of Books, Periodicals, etc 1,035,384 274,565 Maintenance 180,702 4,529 Other 14,595 2,950,186 TOTAL Library 3,089,750 Computing 559,457 Salaries 581,844 53,197 Salary Related Costs 48,781 53,285 Supplies 26,097 159,073 Maintenance 204,245 19,408 Other 27,694 844,420 TOTAL Computing 888,661 1987 1981 $ $ Other Academic Services 241,757 Centre for Teaching Development 271, 47,229 Scientific Workshop 68,669 2,254 Other 2,132 291,240 TOTAL Other Academic Services 342,449 $4,085,846 TOTAL ACADEMIC SERVICES $4,320,860 109 4. STUDENT SERVICES 1,040 Health Services 129,760 Counselling 126,809 412,637 Scholarships 620,584 172,617 Union/Sports Association 179,249 2,324 Other 60,906 $718,378 TOTAL STUDENT SERVICES $987,548 5. GENERAL UNIVERSITY SERVICES Administration 3,285,634 Salaries 3,704,075 500,198 Salary Related Costs 965,572 349,476 Maintenance 555,343 18,667 Equipment 17,942 78,948 Travel 129,848 289,390 Other 306,455 4,522,313 TOTAL Administration 5,679,235 Overheads 204,412 Postage 229,811 411,893 Telephones 324,773 168,449 Advertising 150,490 243,684 Insurance 276,875 441,771 Contributions 336,014 201,847 Furniture 167,288 707,880 Power, Lighting and Heating 785,345 180,140 Publications 233,295 32,000 Audit Fees 35,000 442,582 Other 422,257 3,034,658 TOTAL Overheads 2,961,148 Buildings and Grounds 2,404,010 Salaries 2,686,631 290,957 Salary Related Costs 303,215 822,090 Materials 341,861 73,742 Water and General Rates 107,556 224 Other 753 3,591,023 TOTAL Buildings and Grounds 3,440,016 $11,147,994 TOTAL GENERAL UNIVERSITY SERVICES $12,080,399 6. CURRENT ASSETS 1987 $ (i) Receivables: 796,211 Debtors 1,380,888 — Less Provision for Doubtful Debts 15,500 796,211 1,365,388 436,631 Sundry Advances 520,307 330,278 Accrued Income 1,407,399 $1,563,120 $3,293,094 (ii) Investments: 487,075 Government and Semi-Government Securities —Unquoted 10,300,655 Short term deposits 4,889,629 $10,787,730 $4,889,629 (iii) Other $142,264 Prepayments $75,546 110 /" NON-CURRENT ASSETS (i) Receivables: Amount Owing by Commonwealth/State 20,756,664 Government (refere note 23) 25,656,513 79,549 Loans to Staff (refer note 16). 93,990 $20,836,213 $25,750,503 1987 $ (ii) Investments Government and Semi-Government Securities 1,906,190 — quoted 2,901,330 2,579,098 — unquoted 2,579,098 102,222 Term Deposits 519,287 SSAU Nominees Pty Ltd One (1)$1 share at par 1 $4,587,510 $5,999,716 8. CURRENT LIABILITIES (i) Creditors and Borrowings 91,114 Cash Book Balance 28,611 2,053,420 Creditors and Accrued Expenses 3,009,583 390,660 Secured Loans (refer Note 13) 390,660 Advance (refer note 13) 150,000 $2,535,194 $3,578,854 (ii) Provisions $150,995 Provision for Major Repairs and Replacements $176,535 The provision for major repairs and replacements was created for student residences only, (iii) Other Income Received in Advance 6,163,877 — Government Grant 190,387 423,253 - Student Fees 1,336,619 $6,587,130 $1,527,006 1987 1988 $ $ 9. CREDITORS AND BORROWINGS Unsecured Advance (refer note 13) 150,000 1,242,588 Secured loans (refer note 13) 1,017,171 $1,242,588 $1,167,171 10. FULL FEE COURSES (i) Under the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974 certain approved promotional expenditure is refunded by way of a Grant. A claim for $15,523 was received in respect of the year ended 30 June 1987 and a claim for $200,000 submitted in 1988 for approved expenditure incurred in the year ended 30 June 1988 has been accrued. (ii) At31 December 1988 $1,316,618 had been received from students in respect of 1989 courses. 11. AUDIT FEE The fee paid to the Auditor-General for auditing services in 988 was $35,000 (1987 $32,000). The Auditor-General received no other benefits. 12. INTEREST PAID The total amount of interest paid, or due and payable on loans for the year was $194,1 (1987 $193,456). 111 13. SECURED LOANS AND ADVANCES (i) Debts due later than 1 year but not later than 2 years Advance-Commonwealth Government (refer part (iv) below) Secured loan-Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd The loan from Australian iron and Steel Pty Ltd is secured by way of a first mortgage over the property known as Weerona. (ii) Loans due later than 5 years Commonwealth Trading Bank Loan No. 1 Commonwealth Trading Bank Loan No. 2 National Australia Bank The Commonwealth Trading Bank loans are secured by way of a first mortgage over the property known as International House, The National Australia Bank loan is secured by way of a second mortgage over this property, (iii) Secured Loans 1987 198 $ $ Current Liability 123,360 Commonwealth Trading Bank Loan No. 1 123,360 20,040 Commonwealth Trading Bank Loan No. 2 20,040 97,260 National Australia Bank 97,260 150,000 Australian Iron and Steel Pty. Limited 150,000 390,660 390,660 Non-Current Liability 476,727 Commonwealth Trading Bank Loan No. 1 437,001 76,173 Commonwealth Trading Bank Loan No. 2 69,680 389,688 National Australia Bank 360,490 300,000 Australian Iron and Steel Pty. Limited 150,000 1,242,588 1,017,171 $1,633,248 Total Secured Loans $1,407,831 (iv) Funding of Early Retirement Scheme by the Commonwealth Government. During the current year the Commonwealth Government provided an amount of $300,000 from the legislated grant to fund an early retirement scheme. This amount is repayable in equal instalments over two years. 14. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES (i) As at 31 December 1988 outstanding Loan Guarantees provided by the University under the University of WoUongong Staff Members Housing Loans Scheme with The National Australia Bank totalled $30,872 (1987 $43,230). 15. PROVISIONS FOR DEFERRED EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENTS (i) Professorial Superannuation Scheme The provision for Professorial Superannuation Scheme was established to provide members with a pension of up to 25% of salary on retirement. In 1984 the Scheme was amended to provide for the payment of an additional contributory pension to members of the Scheme on retirement. The Scheme was closed to new members on 1 December 1987. In reports dated 17 January 1989 and 2 March 1989, the University's liability at 1 January 1989 in respect of unfunded past service was actuarily assessed at $4.1822 million based on membership of the fund at 1 January 1989. This result complies with the requirements of the Federal Government's May 1988 Economic Statement which introduced a 15% tax on employer contributions and superannuation fund investment income from 1 July 1988, and the application of the Occupational Superannuation Standards from 1 July 1990. Assumptions adopted by the Actuary in determining this liability were: Rate of salary increase: 8% per annum, plus promotional increases at younger ages Rate of investment return: 9% per annum (net of tax) Rate of increase of pensions: 8% per annum. It is anticipated that further Actuarial reviews of the Scheme will be undertaken every three years. Movements in the provision during the year were: 1987 1988 $ $ 883,020 Balance at 1 January 1988 1,006,184 41,289 Add Contribution from General Recurrent Fund 57,988 Contribution from Members for optional Contributory 4,553 5% Pension Scheme 6,333 121,666 Interest Earnings from Investments 136,805 1,050,528 1,207,310 44,344 Less Payments 53,417 $1,006,184 Balance at 31 December 1988 $1,153,893 112 (Ii) Long Service Leave 986,314 Balance at 1 January 1988 1,328,484 521,678 Add Contributions 409,730 Transfer from ANU 15,006 132,805 Interest Earnings from Investments 167,099 — Transfer from Provisions for Superannuation 2,330,681 1,640,797 4,251,000 312,313 Less Payments 712,737 $1,328,484 Balance at 31 December 1988 $3,538,263 The accrued long service leave liability in respect of employees with ten or more years' service at 31 December 1988 is estimated at $5,063,355 (1987 $4,785,383). Amount unprovided at 1 January 1988 3,456,899 Amount unprovided at 31 December 1988 1,525,092 Decrease in amount unprovided $1,931,807 State Superannuation Fund The University contributes to the New South Wales State Superannuation Fund in respect of present and former members of staff who are, or were, members of the Fund. In a report dated 25 February 1988 the Government Actuary assessed the gross liability of the University at 31 December 1987, at $23 million. In accordance with a formula provided by the Actuary, the gross liability at 31 December, 1988 was $25.07 million and the net unfunded past service cost was $23.15 million (1987 $21.14 million). The unfunded liability has been brought to account as an amount owing by the Commonwealth/State Governments (refer Note 23). Assumptions adopted by the Actuary in determining the University's liability were: Growth of salaries 7% per annum plus a salary scale Indexation increases in pensions 5% per annum Interest earnings on assets 8% per annum The Actuary advises that changes in the economic bases will not substantially affect the valuation results while the age distributions and proportions of the various classes of membership remain reasonably stable. A number of changes to the scheme came into effect from 1 July 1985. However, the Actuary advises it does not appear these changes will dictate acceleration of the next actuarial review due at 31 December 1990. 1987 1988 $ $ 1,640,335 Balance at 1 January 1988 22,613,606 586,695 Add Contributions 580,933 20,756,664 Amount Owing for Unfunded Liability at 1 January 1988 - — Increase in Amount Unfunded (refer note 23) 2,011,780 291,901 Interest Earnings from Investments 254,294 - Adjustment to Prior Year 386,394 23,275,595 25,847,007 661,989 Less Payments 777,310 22,613,606 25,069,697 — Less Transfer to Long Service Leave Provision 1,914,859 22,613,606 23,154,838 - Add Adjustment to Amount Owing for Unfunded Liability 1,914,859 $22,613,606 Balance at 31 December 1988 $25,069,697 (iv) State Public Service Superannuation The New South Wales State Superannuation Fund was closed to new members on 1 July 1985 and was replaced by the State Public Service Superannuation Scheme. Staff members appointed after 1 July 1985 could optionally join the new scheme. The NSW Government Actuar/ has advised that if the University desires to start funding its liabilities under the Scheme, then a contribution rate of 2.5 times total employee contributions paid since 1 July 1985 will provide a reasonable estimate until a full actuarial review can be undertaken. The estimated liability at 31 December 1988 was $586,816 (1987 $367,287). Based on a formula provided through the State Authorities Superannuation Board, the unfunded past sen/ice liability at 31 December 1988 has been estimated at $882,000, but this amount has not been verified. 113 1987 198. $ $ 197,500 Balance at 1 January 1988 367,287 147,300 Add Contributions - — Increase in Amount Unfunded (refer note 23) 170,994 22,487 Interest Earnings from Investments 48,535 367,287 586,816 — Less Transfer to Long Service Leave Provision 415,822 367,287 170,994 - Add Adjustment to Amount Owing for Unfunded Liability 415,822 $367,287 Balance at 31 December 1988 $586,816 The State Public Service Scheme was closed to new members on 31 March 1988. The new schemes currently in operation, the State Authorities Superannuation Scheme (SASS) and the Superannuation Scheme for Australian Universities (SSAU) are both fully funded schemes with no deferred liabilities, (v) Annual Leave The University has an undetermined liability for untaken annual leave. Payments for leave taken in-service or on termination are charged to current revenue. 16. LOANS TO STAFF In 1984 the University established a Housing Loan Scheme for staff at professorial level with a maximum loan available of $30,000. Outstanding loans at 31 December 1988 amounted to $93,990. 17. CAPITAL PROJECT At 31 December 1988, no contracts had been entered into for capital projects. 18. LEASE OR HIRE EXPENDITURE Contracts for lease or hire expenditure are estimated at $266,073 as at 31 December 1988, detailed as follows: Photocopying machines 1989 Commitment $102,996 1990 Commitment $102,996 1991 Commitment $60,081 19. INVESTMENTS Investments are shown in the Statement of Balances at book value which is acquisition cost as adjusted for interest bought. Summary of portfolio as at 31 December 1988; Face Value Book Value Market Value $ $ $ Government and Semi-Government Securities - Quoted 3,000,000 2,901,330 2,874,360 - Unquoted 2,550,000 2,579,098 2,476,545 Term Deposits 3,078,222 3,078,222 3,077,668 Bank Bills 2,734,875 2,330,694 2,292,629 One (1) share in SSAU Nominees Pty Ltd 111 $11,363,098 $10,889,345 $10,721,203 20. The Combined Statement of Income and Expenditure has been prepared in accordance with the Public Finance and Audit (Statuton/ Bodies) Regulations in a format suggested by the Auditor-General. This statement combines a number of funds which, under granting conditions, can be utilised only for specified expenditure purposes. These special funds cannot be allocated to general purpose expenditure categories. To comply with the above-noted regulations and suggested format, the statement includes an amount of $398,874 (1987 $51,856) for unprovided Employees' Accrued Entitlements. 21. HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION CHARGE In 1988 the Commonwealth Government introduced a Higher Education Administration charge to be collected by the University. Of that, the University retains 10% as a contribution towards its administrative costs. The Commonwealth reduced the payment of the legislated grant for University purposes by an amount equivalent to 90% of the amount the University collected from the Higher Education Administration charge. The 1988 charge was $263 per enrolment (1987 $250). 114 In 1988 an amount of $1,827,324 (as shown in Annexure A) was withheld from the legislated grant representing a total Higher Education Administration charge of $2,030,360. The University's share of the Administration charge collected of $203,036 is included in Annexure G (Income from General Development Account $100,000, Income from General $103,036). 22. COMMONWEALTH GRANT Legislated Grant 41,965,000 Less Amount Received for Eariy Retirement Scheme (refer Note 13(iv)) 300,000 41,665,000 Less Amount Received from the Collection of Higher Education Administration Charge (refer Note 21) 1,827,324 Amount Received from Commonwealth Government for Recurrent $39,837,676 23. AMOUNT OWING BY COMMONWEALTH/STATE GOVERNMENTS The State Grants (General Revenue) Amendment Act 1987 indicated that the Commonwealth Government and the New South Wales State Government will share Superannuation Costs in a way that recognises the respective responsibilities of Commonwealth and State Governments which prevailed when the liability was incurred. In 1988, an amount of $2,182,774 was brought to account to meet the increase in the net unfunded past service cost for State Superannuation (refer notes 15(iii) and (iv)). State Public State Service Superannuation Superannuation Total $ $ $ Amount owing for unfunded liability at 1 January 1988 20,756,664 20,756,664 Add Adjustment for transfer to Long Service Leave Provision 1,914,859 415,822 2,330,681 Adjustment to prior year 386,394 386,394 Increase in amount owing for unfunded liability 2,011,780 170,994 2,182,774 Amount owing for unfunded liability at 31 December 1988 $25,069,697 $586,816 $25,656,513 24. SUPERANNUATION PRODUCTIVITY SUPPLEMENTATION From 1 April, 1988, the University became liable for employee Superannuation entitlements equivalent to 3% of salary per annum, arising from a productivity wage claim decision handed down in 1986. The Commonwealth Government has indicated that supplementary funding will be provided to cover this cost. The 1988 recurrent grant included $36,000 for contributions to the Tertiary Education Superannuation Scheme, the 3% Scheme for members of SSAU. No funding has been provided for the State Superannuation Schemes, as negotiations between the Commonwealth Government and State Superannuation Board are incomplete. In 1988, an amount of $512,444 was accrued, being the balance owing from the Commonwealth Government for 3% Productivity Superannuation in respect of members of the State Superannuation Schemes as estimated by University officers. 25. The Accumulated Balances at 1 January, 1988, have been adjusted as follows: Balance Adjusted Reported at Balance at 31 December 31 December 1987 Adjustment 1987 $ $ $ Special Purpose Funds (Research) (Annexure F) 1,280,722 43,457 - 1,237,265 Other Special Purpose Funds (Annexure G) — Scholarships, Bursaries & Prizes 243,187 39,588 -H 282,775 — General 2,103,169 3,869 -H 2,107,038 26. In accordance with Section 41B(l)(d) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit (Statutory Bodies) Regulation 1985 a summary of land owned or occupied by the University together with the values thereof accompanies these Financial Statements (refer pages 68 to 72). 115 Unaudited General Recurrent Funds Budget AS REQUIRED UNDER SECTION 7(1MaHiii) ANNUAL REPORTS ISTATUTORY BODIES) ACT 1984 AND REGULATIONS 1985 1988 1988 1989 Actual Approved Approved Budget Budget $.000 $.000 $.000 Income Federal Grants General University Purposes 42,177 42.177 46,489 Special Research State Grants General University Purposes 2,083 2,083 2,225 Other Income Charges and Fees 247 225 224 Rent from Properties Contribution towards expenditure from other University accounts 132 132 250 Contribution towards expenditure from external organisations 23 23 23 Contribution towards expenditure from outside earnings Miscellaneous 146 80 164 44,808 44,720 49,375 Less Expenditure Teaching and Research 26,375 26,456 30,217 Research Only 397 461 921 Library 3,090 3,095 3,422 Computing Services 889 894 971 Academic Sen/ices 342 474 542 Student Serv/ices 988 967 516 Administration 5,679 5,383 5,110 Overheads 2,961 2,635 3,030 Buildings and Grounds 3,440 3,332 3,550 Public Services 653 1,112 1,276 Provisions 138 830 44,814 44,947 50,386 Excess of expenditure over income for the year 6 227 1,011 LESS Adjustments for prior years 15 SURPLUS FOR YEAR 21 Accumulated deficit 31 December 1987 490 Less transfer from Special Purposes to meet ACCUMULATED DEFICIT 31 December 1987 511 THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG 1988 ANNUAL REPORT AS REQUIRED UNDER SECTION 7(1MaMiii) ANNUAL REPORTS (STATUTORY BODIES) ACT 1984 AND REGULATIONS 1985 NOTES: The budget shown for 1988 is the amended budget at 31 December 1988, The 1989 budget is the first budget approved for the financial year and was prepared towards the end of the proceeding year at December 1988 cost levels for salaries and associated costs and June 1988 cost levels for non- salan/ costs. Both expenditure and Federal and State grant income are updated in line with salary award variations during the financial year. 116 NOTES 117 NOTES 118 Published by The University of WoUongong PO Box 1144, WoUongong, NSW, 2500 Produced by the Academic Services Branch within The University of WoUongong Editing, typography and layout by George Wilson Pictures by Robyn Johnston, Jurgen Treue and Simone Rose Crown copyright 1988 ISSN 0313-6906 lypeset and printed by Bridge Printery Pty Ltd 29-35 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery NSW 2018