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Senior Management Committee Meeting 2-2005

Meeting 2/2005 of the Senior Management Committee will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday 12 April 2005 in the Clayfield Room, Caulfield campus.

Rhonda Hinds, Executive Officer

AGENDA

Members having a direct commercial or financial interest in any item before this meeting must declare that interest to the Chair via the Committee Secretary prior to consideration of the item, and must not take part in a vote on any matter concerning it.

1. Attendance and apologies  
Apologies have been received from:

Professor Richard Larkins

  In attendance

Dr Elane Zelcer, Executive Director-STRIP (for agenda item 5.2)

Mr Don Gregg, General Manager, Monash International (for agenda item 7.1)

Mr David Saint, Applications Services, ITS (for agenda item 9.2)

Ms Lisa Steny, Change and Communications Manager, Corporate Finance Systems (for agenda item 10.2)

Mr Phil Wheatland, Project Manager, Corporate Finance Division (as Mr John Matthews’ delegate)

 
2. Minutes of Meeting 1/2005

pp 1 - 7

  The Minutes of Meeting 1/2005, held on 8 March 2005 are attached.

Members are invited to confirm the minutes as an accurate record of the meeting.

SMC 2/05/01

3. Matters arising from the Minutes  
  Matters arising from the Minutes have been included as individual agenda items.  
4. Vice-Chancellor’s Report

p 8

  Attached for information is a report from Professor Richard Larkins.

SMC 2/05/02

5. Strategic Planning and Initiatives  
  5.1 Annual Planning Conference

pp 9 - 10

    5.1.1 Attached for information is a Report on the Annual Planning Conference.

Professor Stephen Parker will speak to this item.

SMC 2/05/03

    5.1.2 An oral update on the Review of the Support Services Plan will be provided.  
  5.2

Monash STRIP Strategic Plan

pp 11 - 12

    Attached for consideration is an Overview of the Monash STRIP Strategic Plan.

Dr Elane Zelcer will present this item.

SMC 2/05/04

6. Quality Matters
7. International

p 13

  Attached for information is the combined Schedule for the International Self Review (ISR), International Plan (IntP), and Monash International strategy on student recruitment (MIS).

Mr Clive Vernon will speak to the attached schedule.

SMC 2/05/05

  7.1 International Student Recruitment

pp 14 - 20

    SMC Meeting 1/2005 was advised that a paper on the approaches to international student recruitment would be considered at the April meeting.

Attached for discussion is an update paper - International Students and Monash.

Mr Don Gregg will be in attendance for this item.

 

 

 

SMC 2/05/06

  7.2 International Plan

p 21

    The Schedule for Development of the International Plan (considered at SMC Meeting 1/2005) provided for further discussion of the Plan at SMC Meeting 2/2005.

Mr Vernon will speak to the attached discussion paper.

SMC 2/05/07

8. Education  
9. Research and Research Training  
  9.1 Research and Research Management Review

pp 22 - 51

Attached for approval is the final report of the Research and Research Management Review.

Professor Edwina Cornish will speak to the Report.

SMC 2/05/08

  9.2 Tardis Project  
    Ms Peggy Daroesman and Mr David Saint will deliver a presentation on the Tardis Project (the new research data reporting tool) and the implications for data management.  
  9.3 Research Quality Framework  
    Professor Cornish will provide an oral report.

Information relevant to the RQF may be obtained from the following website:

http://www.dest.gov.au/resqual/default.htm

 
10. Management

  10.1 Record Keeping Policy

pp 52 - 57

    Attached for comment are a memorandum and Monash University Record Keeping Policy.

SMC 2/05/09

SMC 2/05/10

  10.2 Westpac Procurement MasterCard

pp 58 - 60

    Attached for information is a report on the implementation of the Westpac Procurement MasterCard.

Mr Phil Wheatland will introduce this item. Ms Lisa Steny will be in attendance.

SMC 2/05/11

11. Other business  
12. Next meeting  
  Please note the change of date:

The next meeting of the Senior Management Committee is scheduled for 2.15 p.m. Tuesday 7 June 2005 in the Council Room (Clayton campus).