Monash Memo - 6 June 2001

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Career development awards for general staff

Nine general staff were recipients of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources) Career Development Scholarships, awarded during a morning tea ceremony last week.

The scholarships are available to staff members up to HEW level 5 who wish to study to enhance their career prospects within the university.

Deputy vice-chancellor (Resources) Ms Alison Crook, who presented the awards, congratulated the recipients for their dedication in pursuing further studies.

"It is extremely important for the university to recognise the need to go on learning and to encourage staff to participate in schemes such as this," she said.

One of the scholarship winners, Ms Lee Tierney, administrative secretary in the Works Branch at the Peninsula campus, is using the money to undertake a business accounting diploma.

"I've discovered an absolute love of finance and figures, which has amazed me. The accounting side not only helps my work at Monash but helps run our farm as well," she said.

Details of this year's awards for general staff are at www.monash.edu.au/personnel/sdu/awards

Career development scholarships were won by:

• Ms Rosemary Abbott (Gippsland Centre for Art and Design);
• Ms Maureen Bell (Academic Unit of Geriatric Medicine - Kingston Centre);
• Ms Alma May Garcia (Monash Student Association, Clayton);
• Ms Lyn Harris (Faculty of Education, Clayton);
• Ms Carmelina Krausz (Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences, Gippsland);
• Ms Joanne O'Reilly (Centre for Ambulance and Paramedic Studies, Peninsula);
• Ms Bianca Roggenbucke (School of Geography and Environmental Science, Clayton);
• Ms Lee Tierney (Works Branch, Peninsula);
• Ms Jill Walker (Library, Caulfield).

Pictured are four of the nine scholarship winners: Ms Bianca Roggenbucke, Ms Rosemary Abbott, Ms Carmelina Krausz and Ms Jill Walker.