Meeting No. 2/2000 of the Education Committee will be held on Wednesday, 22 March 2000 in the Sir George Lush Room, Administration Building 3A, Clayton Campus, commencing at 10:00am.

Apologies: Please telephone: 9905 9003; or e-mail to : Kerri.Wilson-Reid@adm.monash.edu.au.

Ms K Wilson-Reid

Executive Officer

Apologies for this meeting have been received from Dr K Macrae and Associate Professor L Roller.

The Committee should note that certain items have been starred as requiring discussion. Additional items may be starred at the discretion of the Committee.

Any items related to new courses have been starred for the attention of the Committee.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the Committee nominate any additional items to be starred, and endorse the recommendations for all items other than those starred.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the Committee approve the Minutes of Meeting 1/2000 held Wednesday, 2 February 2000, which have been circulated.

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The Committee is invited to note that with the exception of the item detailed below, each recommendation in the Report of Education Committee Meetings 8/99 and 1/2000 was approved by the Academic Board.

Major Amendment to the Bachelor of Music (refer item 9.2.1 of Education Committee agenda/minutes 8/99): This major amendment recommended that the Bachelor of Music be brought into alignment with the Arts Faculty's requirement for a standard 6 point allocation for every undergraduate subject. The major amendment was approved by the Academic Board subject to resolution of some outstanding issues which were raised at that meeting. A memorandum from the Secretary to Academic Board, Mr T Calder, detailing the Academic Board’s resolution in relation to this matter, is attached for information.

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At its Meeting 4/99, the Education Committee requested that a small working group give consideration to the University’s current graduate attributes as an item to be included on a future agenda of the Education Committee. The graduate attributes appear in Leading the Way – Monash 2020, the Learning and Teaching Plan and the (then draft) Supporting Document for the Course and Subject Proposal Proformas as prepared by the Education Committee Procedures Review Working Party. It was intended that the University’s graduate attributes would be re-considered with a view to incorporating the key elements of the University’s strategic directions, and then re-cast into a consistent format.

At its Meeting 7/99, Education Committee endorsed preliminary recommendations which were contained in an initial report on Graduate Attributes, with some further suggestions for incorporation, and requested that the working group progress to the next stage of re-casting of the University’s graduate attributes.

A Second Progress Report of the Working Group on Graduate Attributes is now attached for the Committee’s consideration. (A background paper, which includes extracts of Monash’s graduate attributes as defined in Leading the Way – Monash 2020 and the Learning and Teaching Plan, is also attached for information.)

Professor G Webb, Director, Centre for Higher Education Development and member of the working group, will speak to this item.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee consider the recommendations contained in the Second Progress Report of the Working Group on Graduate Attributes presented.

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At its Meeting 3/99, the Education Committee established a Working Party on Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Academic Progress to review the University's exclusion and exclusion appeals policies and procedures. The draft report of the working party was made available on the web for viewing prior to Meeting 8/99 of the Education Committee. Following receipt of a verbal interim report from the Chair of the Working Party, Associate Professor J Hurst, at that meeting, members made the suggestions below relating to processes that could be followed to ensure that procedural irregularity did not occur:

participation of a member of the Exclusion Appeals Committee at a faculty hearing in the instance that a case had been referred back to the faculty due to procedural irregularity of the initial hearing; and

that faculties might have two Academic Progress Committees so that any re-hearing of cases could be undertaken by the second committee, to ensure total impartiality.

At that meeting, members were also invited to email any queries or comments regarding the report to Associate Professor Hurst.

The Report of the Education Committee Working Party on Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Academic Progress is now attached for consideration. For further reference, copies of the current Statute, regulations and faculty and central committee procedures are also attached. The Working Party Report is also available electronically at the following web address:

http://hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au/~ajh/ADT/exclusions/report.html

Associate Professor J Hurst will speak to this item.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee consider and endorse the Report of the Education Committee Working Party on Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Academic Progress presented.

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A copy of the Learning and Teaching Plan Performance Report 1999, which was forwarded by Professor M Evans, Director of Planning and Academic Affairs, is attached for information.

Professor M Evans will speak to this item.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the Learning and Teaching Plan Performance Report 1999 presented.

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A copy of the Monash University Library Impact Statement from January to December 1999 is attached for information.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the Monash University Library Impact Statement from January to December 1999 presented.

At its Meeting 8/99, Education Committee received and endorsed revised course and subject proposal proformas (forwarded by the Education Committee Procedures Review Working Party), together with a formal supporting document. The Committee agreed that the majority of comments/suggested amendments which had been received for and considered at that meeting should be incorporated, and the revised documentation should then be used from 2000. Since that meeting, further amendments to the proformas (and consequently the supporting document) were endorsed by the Committee of Associate Deans Teaching (CADeT) at its Meeting 1/2000, to take into account various Callista issues. Further changes may be made to the Support Document following resolution of the matter of the University’s graduate attributes.

Education Committee is invited to note that the revised proformas for course and subject proposals (together with the supporting document) are near completion, including amendments from Education Committee Meeting 8/99 and CADeT Meeting 1/2000, and will be loaded onto the University Secretariat’s website under the Education Committee section shortly.

(Secretarial Note: Associate Deans Teaching, Faculty Registrars/Managers and other key faculty administrators will be advised via email as soon as the revised proformas are on the website, including details of the relevant URL.)

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/2000 of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics held 16 February 2000, note the Proceedings and consider each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the requirement that students commencing the Bachelor of Business and Commerce at the Malaysia campus in 2000 include the following as core subjects:

BTW1010 Commercial Law instead of BTX1200 Business Law

ECW1000 Economics instead of ECW1XXX Introductory Micro-economics

a slightly modified version of AFW1022 which will bring it into line with AFW1001 Introductory Accounting A

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics that the subject ETX2121 Data Analysis in Business, replace ETX2111 Business Data Modelling, in the outer core of the Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) and the Bachelor of Business (Accounting)/Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance), from 2000.

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A document is attached.

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the structure of the Bachelor of Business (Human Resources), from 2000, to:

replace MKF2500 Retail Management Principles with MKX3141 Issues in Competitive Advantage;

remove the following strand subjects:

MGF3361 Performance Management

MGF3460 Managing Conflict

MGF3111 Organisational Behaviour; and

add MGX1100 Managerial Communication as a strand subject.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the course progression for the Bachelor of Business (Management), from 2000, as follows:

replace MKF2500 Retail Management Principles with MKX3141 Issues in Competitive Advantage; and

reduce the number of strand subjects to six subjects by removing:

MGX2511 Quality Management

MGX3600 Cross Cultural Communication and Negotiation.

10.1.5 Bachelor of Business (Retail Management): New Distance Education Course Progression

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the course progression for the Bachelor of Business (Retail Management) offered by distance education from 2000, as proposed by the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics and detailed in the document presented.

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A document is attached.

The new subjects MGG4XXX Management Field Project, MGG4XXX Perspectives and Paradigms in Management Theory, MGG4XXX Business Consulting and MGG3XXX Introductory Business Research Methods, which are proposed for establishment under item 10.2 of the agenda, relate to this specialisation.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the Bachelor of Business (Honours), specialising in management, to be offered at the Gippsland campus from semester one, 2000.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal to change the titles of the double awards related to the Bachelor of Business and Commerce at the Gippsland and Berwick campuses as detailed below, so as to enable the courses to be entered in the VTAC Guide for 2001:

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Handbook entries are attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to establish the ten subjects listed below:

AFC1100/2100 Introduction to Finance

ETX3231 Business Forecasting

ELC2001 Commercial Aspects of Electronic Commerce

MKC2460 Integrated Marketing Communication

MGG4XXX Management Field Project

MGG4XXX Data Analysis for Business Research

MGG4XXX Perspectives and Paradigms in Management Theory

MGG3XXX Business Consulting

MGG3XXX Introductory Business Research Methods

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Documentation is attached for information.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to make major and minor amendments to subjects, as detailed under items 4 and 6 of the Faculty Board Report and the documentation presented.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive the Report of Meeting 1/2000 of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, held 8 March 2000, and consider the items requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

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Documentation is attached.

(A copy of the full subject amendment documentation involved with this proposal is available upon request to the Executive Officer.)

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to amend the Master of Engineering Science in Process Integration, involving an extension of the mode of enrolment to include on-campus to distance education, as detailed in the document presented.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to make the minor amendments to subjects as detailed under item 2 of the Faculty Board Report presented.

The Engineering Faculty Board approved the disestablishment of forty-nine "old Bachelor of Engineering" first and second level Clayton subjects. Due to the introduction of the new Bachelor of Engineering degree structure, subjects previously offered at the Clayton campus are no longer required. Each Engineering Department, and the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics, Chemistry and Physics have approved the disestablishment of their respective subjects. The Faculty Board also approved the disestablishment of another seventeen subjects formerly offered in the old Bachelor of Engineering program at the Caulfield campus.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to disestablish the sixty-six subjects listed below:

CHM1700 Chemistry

CHM1710 Chemistry I

CHM1722 Chemistry II

CHM2711 Chemistry III

CHM2722 Chemistry electives

PHS1800 Physics

PHS1810 Physics I

PHS1820 Physics II

PHS2081 Physics III

MAT1910 Engineering mathematics I

MAT1920 Engineering mathematics II

MAT2910 Engineering mathematics III

MAT2920 Engineering mathematics IV

MAT2930 Numerical methods

MAT2941 Civil engineering mathematics

MAT2952 Statistical methods

CHE1110 Introduction to chemical processing systems

CHE2110 Analysis of chem. processing systems I

CHE2111 Analysis of chem. processing systems II

CHE2170 Chemical engineering communication

CIV1210 Mechanics of structures

CIV2201 Civil engineering practice 2

CIV2220 Surveying

CIV2221 Stress and structural analysis

CIV2250 Civil engineering computing

CIV2260 Design of structures

CIV2271 Introduction to geoengineering

ECS1310 Electrical systems and computer eng.

ECS1320 Digital logic systems

ECS1610 Engineering computing

ECS2300 Electrical engineering

ECS2310 Circuit theory I

ECS2320 Electromagnetic theory I

ECS2340 Telecommunications

ECS2350 Electrical energy I

ECS2360 Electronics and control systems I

ECS2370 Computer systems engineering I

ECS2371 Microprocessor interfacing

ECS2380 Computer systems engineering II

ECS2390 Management I

MEC1410 Engineering mechanics

MTE1510 Mechanical properties of materials

MTE2511 Structure of engineering materials I

MTE2512 Structure of engineering materials II

MTE2513 Modelling and experimental measurement

MTE2514 Thermomechanical analysis

MTE2530 Polymer morphology and structure

MTE2540 Materials science and engineering

MTE2580 Materials selection and manufacturing

ENC2001 Engineering Management 1

ENC2002 Engineering Management 2

ENC2302 Engineering Material Science 2

ENC2404 Computer Applications 4

ENC3002 Computer Applications 6

ENC3401 Industrial Project 1

ENC3402 Industrial Project 2

ENC4001 Computer Applications 7

ENC4002 Computer Applications 8

ENC4301 Engineering Management 5

ENC4302 Engineering Management 6

ENC4391 Fluid Systems Applications

ENC4392 Fluid Systems Management

ENC4401 Industrial Project 3

ENC4402 Industrial Project 4

ENC4491 Fluid Machines and Systems 1

ENC4492 Fluid Machines and Systems 2

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive the Report of Meeting 1/2000 of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, held 8 March 2000, note the Proceedings and consider each item requiring action separately for submission to Academic Board.

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Documentation is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to establish the Bachelor of Multimedia Computing, to be offered at the Gippsland campus via distance education and on-campus at the Berwick campus, commencing semester one, 2001.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to amend the Bachelor of Digital Systems, to allow students to choose either COT2001 or CSE3318 in satisfaction of the requirement for COT2001 within the communication sequence of the Bachelor of Digital Systems.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to amend the Bachelor of Information Systems by altering the course structure to allow CSE3200X as a subject within that degree.

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Handbook entries are attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to establish the five subjects listed below:

CPE3011 Issues for Human Communications across the Internet

CPE3013 Image Formats

GCO1810 Programming Fundamentals

GCO1821 Introduction to Multimedia Technology

GCO2823 Multimedia Development

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Documentation for the major amendments under this item is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to make the major and minor amendments to subjects as detailed under items 4 and 5 of the Faculty Board Report and the documentation presented.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive the Report of Meeting 2/2000 of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Law, held 9 March 2000, and consider the item for submission to Academic Board.

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A handbook entry is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Law to establish the subject:

LAW7243 Shareholders’ Remedies

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Documentation is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive the Reports of Meetings 1/2000 and 2/2000 of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine, held 2 February and 22 March 2000, and consider each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

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Documentation is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics, to be offered on-campus at the Clayton campus, commencing semester one, 2001.

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Documentation is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound, to be offered by the Department of Radiography via distance education through the Centre for Learning and Teaching Support (CeLTS), commencing semester one, 2001.

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Documentation is attached.

Documentation for this amendment will also be forwarded by the Faculty to the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee (OQAC).

RECOMMENDATION:

That, subject to endorsement by the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee, Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to extend the offering of the Bachelor of Nursing (Post-Registration) to offer the course via distance education in Papua New Guinea, commencing semester one, 2000, as detailed in the documentation presented.

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Handbook entries are attached.

The subjects proposed under this item relate to the establishment of the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound (refer items 14.1.1 and 14.1.2).

RECOMMENDATION:

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the sixteen new subjects listed below:

BND1022 Food Chemistry

BND2011 Nutritional Physiology

BND2021 Nutritional Biochemistry

BND2031 Nutrition and Health Psychology

BND2042 Nutrition and Immunology

BND2052 Applied Food Science

BND2062 Food Microbiology

BND2072 Introduction to Health Care Systems

SON4000 Physics of Medical Ultrasound and Instrumentation

SON4010 Embryology, Anatomy and Pathophysiology

SON4020 Sonographic Professional Skills & Sonography of the Breast and Thyroid

SON4021 Sonographic Abdominal Imaging

SON4022 Sonographic Imaging of the Reproductive System

SON4023 Obstetric Sonography

SON4024 Musculoskeletal, Neonatal and Paediatric Sonography

SON4025 Sonographic Vascular and Postoperative Imaging

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to make a minor amendment to the subject BME1141 Social Nutrition, to change the code so that it becomes BND1011.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive the Report of Meeting 6/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Science, held 17 November 1999, and consider the items requiring action for submission to the Academic Board.

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Handbook entries are attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Science to approve the subjects listed below as new subjects:

BCH3011 Proteins, Structural Biology and Disease

BCH3022 Cellular Organisation: Organelle Structure and Function in Health and Disease

BCH3031 Advanced Molecular Biology Modern Concepts and Applications

BCH3042 Cell Signalling

MIC3011 Molecular Bicrobiology

MIC3021 Molecular Virology and Viral Pathogenesis

MIC3032 Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infectious Diseases

MIC3042 Medical Microbiology and Biotechnology

PHA3011 Principles of Drug Action

PHA3021 Drugs in Health and Disease

PHA3032 Neuro and Endocrine Pharmacology

PHA3042 Modern Drug Development

PHA3052 Poisons and Toxins

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An amendment which was approved by the Science Faculty Board Executive in December 1999 and reported to Meeting 8/99 of the Education Committee contained an error which is now being amended. The error related to point III of the amendment to the Bachelor of Science (Environmental Management) and the Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology), which sought to replace the subject GEN2041 with the subject MOL2011. The correct replacement subject for GEN2041 is BIO2011. A document which details the amendment under this item is attached for information.

The corrected request for minor amendment to these courses offered in Malaysia will be approved by Science Faculty Board at its meeting 1/2000, to be held 15 March 2000.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee note the minor amendments made by the Faculty of Science to the Bachelor of Science (Environmental Management) and the Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology).

This information has been provided in response to a request from Meeting 4/99 of the Education Committee for each faculty to provide details about their policy in relation to invigilated assessment. The following is the response from the Faculty of Science:

The Science Faculty Education Committee agreed that flexibility should prevail and that departments would determine whether or not invigilated assessment was required for subjects. In the case where no such assessment was required, the Departments will ensure that alternate assessment was vigorous and appropriately monitored.

Education Committee is invited to note the policy of the Faculty of Science on Invigilated Assessment as detailed above, noting that the matter of invigilated assessment will be put to the Education Committee as an item for consideration at a meeting in the near future, with responses from each of the ten faculties provided.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee receive the Report of Meeting 1/2000 of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy, held 1 March 2000, and consider the item requiring action for submission to the Academic Board.

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A document is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

That Education Committee endorse for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy to establish the Graduate Certificate in Wound Management, to be offered via distance education, administered by the Centre for Continuing Education (Victorian College of Pharmacy), commencing 1 July 2000.

The next scheduled meeting of the Education Committee (Meeting 3/2000) will be held at 10.00 am on Wednesday, 10 May 2000.

All final submissions for the agenda for that meeting are due by Wednesday, 26 April 2000. For other important dates, please refer to the 2000 Education Committee Submission Schedule and Evaluation Roster, which is located on the web at the following address:

Professor Alan Lindsay (Chair)

Associate Professor David Garrioch

Dr Denise Cuthbert

Mr Karen Bensley

Associate Professor Alan Farley

Associate Professor Les Nethercott

Associate Professor Peter Gronn

Associate Professor Kim Ng

Associate Professor John Hurst

Mr Chris Avram

Associate Professor Susan Campbell

Professor Grahame Taylor

Associate Professor Malcolm Sim

Dr Kristina Macrae

Associate Professor Michael Morgan

Associate Professor Louis Roller

Professor Peter Stewart

Professor Max King

Professor Merran Evans

Professor John Harris

Professor Graham Webb

Professor Les Johnson

Ms Kerri Thomas (MUBS)

Ms Jessamy Nicholas (MONSU)

Mr Dan Feldman (MSA)

Ms Chris Hortis (MUGSU)

Mr Noel Turner (MPA) – Masters by Coursework

Mr Robert Burnet

Mr Clive Vernon

Mr Peter Lawford

Ms Kerri Wilson-Reid (Executive Officer)

Faculty Registrars/Managers (*9)

Mr B Eddy

Ms M Fairbanks

Dr A Mitchell

Mr P Siggins

Ms C Holland

Ms P Herman