were received from M r Ramler, Dr Burden, Associate Professor Costar, and Professor Melbourne, each of whom had special leave, and from Mr Blyth, Miss Pizzey, Mr Shore, and Dr Vaughan.

Items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10.2, 11.20, 16, 19, 21, and 28 were discussed at the meeting. Remaining items were dealt with en bloc.

5. Matters Arising from the Minutes

5.1 David Syme Management Education Centre

Council approved the appended list of documents to which the University Seal had been affixed.

7 . Report of the Vice-Chancellor

The Vice-Chancellor tabled, spoke to, and responded to questions on the following items of his appended report:

In addition, Professor Logan said the University expected to receive some $12.9M in 1993 from the new rolling-in capital funding arrangements, and grants of a similar magnitude in the following years.

7.2 Profile Visit

In addition, Professor Logan reminded Council of an election commitment of the Victorian coalition parties to provide places for an additional 552 school leavers in 1993. He also mentioned that the Department of Employment, Education and Training had initiated a review of teacher training.

7.3 Opening Learning Initiative

After noting the action recommended by the Monash University College Gippsland Advisory Council at item 9 below and by the Academic Board at item 11.22 below, Council endorsed the appended Report of the Vice-Chancellor's Committee on Integration with Monash University College Gippsland and attendent Faculty/School agreements and general issues paper included as Appendices E and F to the report of Meeting No. 8/92 of the Academic Board. It was noted that several issues remained unresolved, principally as a result of subsequent events not envisaged when the integration project was initiated. Professor Kennedy assured Council, however, that these matters were being pursued in accordance with the governing principles set down by the Vice-Chancellor at the commencement of the project.

7.6 Quality Issues

7.7 Sixth International Conference on Higher Education

Council received and noted the appended report.

7.8 State Election Issues

Professor Logan said, although the Government's announcement that Berwick had been selected as the site for the new Monash campus in the south-eastern growth corridor was welcomed by the University, advice on funding was still awaited.

7.9 Research- Based Universities

Professor Logan informed Council that a group of Vice-Chancellors of universities with medical schools had met informally in Sydney on 14 September and had agreed to meet on an irregular basis in future to discuss matters of mutual interest, particularly research issues. He said he thought it proper for Monash to be involved in such discussions, and ruled out any intention of relinquishing his membership of the Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee.

Council acceded to Professor Logan's request for authority to advertise a newly created position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development). In response to a question, he said this appointment was consistent with the anticipated findings of the current senior management review which was expected to report in about a month.

Council approved the amendments to the Articles of Association of CIRCIT Ltd as recommended in the attachment to the Vice-Chancellor's report.

Professor C.R. Williams addressed Council and responded to questions about the operation and academic standing of the Faculty of Law. He commended to members his Faculty's recently issued promotional publication.

Council received and noted the appended report and approved the following recommendation therein:

9.1 Membership of Advisory Council,

it being noted that the matter of the Future Development of Monash University College Gippsland had been dealt with at item 7.5 above.

Council received and noted the appended report and approved the following recommendations therein:

10.12 Appointment of Associate Dean, Faculty of Education (6);

10.13 Appointment of Sub-Dean, Faculty of Education (7); and

10.14 School of Computing and Information Technology at Frankston Campus (8).

11. Report of the Academic Board (Meeting No. 8/92)

11.16 Bachelor of Business (Accounting)/Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) (2.2);

11.18 Combined Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)/Bachelor of Laws Degree Course (3);

11.25 Proposal to Offer the Degree of Master of Business (Accounting) Offshore (12), i t being noted that the Board's recommendations 5, The Future of the David Syme Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Economics Commerce and Management, and 7, Report of the Vice-Chancellor's Committee on Integration with Monash University College Gippsland, had been dealt with respectively at items 7.4 and 7.5 above.

12. Reports of the Biosafety Committee

13. Report of the Bookshop Board Council received and noted the appended report and approved the following recommendation therein:

14. Report of the Buildings Committee

Council received and noted the appended report.

15. Report of the Equal Opportunity Committee

Council received and noted the appended report.

16. Report of the Finance Committee

16.2 David Syme Management Education Centre Pty Ltd;

17. Report of the Patents Committee

Council received and noted the appended report.

18. Personal Chairs Committee

19. Report of the Chair of Politics Selection Committee

Council received the appended report and approved the following recommendation therein:

20. Report of the Council Discipline Appeal Committee

Council received and noted the appended report. In so doing, it endorsed the recommendations contained in the last paragraph of the report concerning the desirability of reviewing certain aspects of the Statutes and procedures relating to discipline and exclusion for health reasons in the light of issues that arose in the course of the Committee's proceedings.

Council received and noted the appended report. 22. Conferring of Degrees In Absentia

Council received and noted the appended report.

24. Report on Recent Academic and General Staff Appointments

Council noted the appended report.

25. Human Resources Management Report

Council received and noted the appended report.

26. Kingston Centre Board of Management

Council approved a recommendation from the Board of the Faculty of Medicine that the following panel of names be submitted to the Minister, as required by the Health Services Act, to facilitate the appointment of a successor to Professor D.W. O'Conner, whose term as the University's representative on the Kingston Centre Board of Management expires on 31 October:

2. Professor N. Christophidis

3. Professor J.J. McNeil

27. Appointment of Authorised Officers

Council appointed Chris Riskas, Rudy John Varga, Raymond Noel Gilbert, Joseph Carapellotti, and Sam George Weisshart as authorised officers of the University -

On the recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor, Council made the following seriatim appointments to the vacancies on standing and other committees set out in the appended paper and attached listing of members' current commitments:

Council received and noted the appended reports from: 29.1 Dr E.M. Benson, Department of Medicine;

29.2 Dr H.J. Bowe, Department Linguistics;

29.3 Dr J.D. Chapman, Faculty of Education;

29.4 Professor R.H. Chenhall, Department of Accounting and Finance;

29.5 Dr B.A. Goss, Department of Economics;

29.6 Mr B.A. Knox, Department of History;

29.7 Dr D.B. Miller, Department of Anthropology and Sociology;

29.8 Dr T.L. Seddon, Faculty of Education; and

29.9 Dr A.R. Shorten, Faculty of Education.