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Discussing the Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding which has just been endorsed by Monash University Council and the University of London Senate are vice-chancellor of Monash Professor David Robinson (left) and principal of King's College, London Professor Arthur Lucas. |
Monash University will open for business in central London following an agreement with King's College, London, a founding College of the 170 year-old University of London and a member of the Russell Group of leading United Kingdom universities.
Announcing the development, vice-chancellor Professor David Robsinson said that the Monash University Centre at King's will be the focus of Monash's activities in the United Kingdom and in Europe.
"Like the Monash campus that opened in Malaysia last year, the London centre at King's will be a key component of our strategy of providing teaching, learning and research opportunities for our students and staff around the world," he said.
Professor Robinson said the agreement signalled a very important new phase of Monash's development.
"This agreement brings together two leading universities in a comprehensive relationship to strengthen research endeavours and opportunities, to mount new course programs, and to enable students to move from one country to another while maintaining a continuous educational experience of the highest quality," he said.
"Monash students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, now have more opportunities to gain a truly international education. As they complete part of their studies or research in Australia, London, Malaysia or elsewhere, they will become increasingly part of the broader trend of global higher education."
Professor Robinson said that Monash and King's will cooperate in the recruitment of students in Australia, Britain and elsewhere around the world, and will also build on current research collaboration and extend areas of mutual interest.
"We will use our combined strengths to attract research funds from British, European Community, Australian and other international sources," he said.
The agreement between the two universities was formally endorsed by the governing bodies of each institution early this month after being signed in May by Professor Robinson and the principal of King's College, Professor Arthur Lucas. The development has the full support of the Monash Vice-Chancellor's Group, Committee of Deans, Global Board, Academic Board and Resources and Finance Committee.
Associated with the Monash-King's agreement, the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, currently part of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, will transfer to King's College, London. The Menzies Centre is funded by the Australian Government, the Menzies Foundation, the Menzies Trust (UK) and a number of universities including Monash.
Under the new arrangement, the Menzies Centre will be bolstered by a $5 million endowment from the Australian Government, announced in the May 1999 Budget. Monash will be the only Australian university with individual representation on the board of the centre and will have preferential access to its teaching facilities.
Professor Lucas said that he was delighted to have Monash's presence at King's.
"Monash will complement the activities of the already thriving Menzies Centre, and we look forward to interactions in teaching, learning and research to our mutual benefit. As an Australian myself, this is particularly pleasing to me personally."
Commenting on the potential of the Monash-King's agreement, Professor Robinson said that it would enable the university to take a very significant step towards the Monash 2020 vision of being a broad based, global university.
"In the global network that we are continuing to develop, this is our first major international alliance," he said.
Discover intelligent life at Open DayStaff across Monash's six Victorian campuses are working on final preparations to welcome thousands of prospective students and their families on Monash Open Day. Each campus will offer visitors information and activities including course and career advice, the chance to find out what it's really like to study at Monash, and entertainment, all centred around the theme of 'Discover intelligent life'. At the Berwick campus, a parent of a current student will discuss what to expect from the school-to-university transition in the session called 'My life as a parent'. At Clayton campus, budding Rumpoles will be able watch the grand final of the Monash Legal Challenge, a simulated criminal trial demonstrating the practical skills training that Monash law students receive during their law studies. The competition will be judged by an eminent panel of judges that includes Victoria's director of Public Prosecutions Mr Geoffrey Flatman, president of the Court of Appeal the Hon. Mr Justice J. Winneke, and the Hon. Justice M. Warren from the Supreme Court of Victoria. Visitors to Gippsland campus can find out what they really have in their mouths at the science show 'Your mouth is a zoo'! Gippsland will also host the 'Discovering intelligent life: Getting ready for university' workshops, which will cater for a diverse range of visitors, from Year 10 students to parents of prospective students. Budding pharmacists visiting Parkville campus can explore the diverse career opportunities that pharmacy offers, then take time out to listen to live music. At the Peninsula campus, fans of science fiction movies can learn the secrets of the role science plays in creating their favourite intergalactic epics at 'Hollywood meets the lab coat', a lecture followed by interactive displays. The Caulfield campus will run the 'Move over Bruno' competition, where participants are invited to construct their own Grollo Tower from a single sheet of paper which can support an egg for five minutes. The campus will also host 'Cycling solar cells', the official launch of the Monash entry in the 1999 World Solar Challenge, designed by Mechanical Engineering students working in conjunction with external groups. According to Monash Open Day coordinator Mr Michael Fenaughty, an additional feature of this year's Open Day at Caulfield will be the newly opened Art & Design building. "It will be an opportunity for the Art & Design faculty to show off their facilities," he said. "There'll be a range of activities from glass-blowing to drawing using the right side of the brain." Monash Open Day will be held at the Gippsland, Parkville and Peninsula campuses on Saturday 7 August and at the Berwick, Caulfield and Clayton campuses on Sunday 8 August from 10 am to 4 pm. |
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Almost 400 primary and secondary students from around Australia, Argentina and the US entered a competition run recently by the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology.
CRC
education officer Ms Pauline Rogers said she had been overwhelmed by both
the number and standard of entries on a topic related to weather, oceans or
climate.
"A significant number of students chose to present their entries using web pages, including one of the winning entries from Glen Waverley Primary School students Daniel Larson and Vlad Zaggelidis," she said.
Their entry, 'How CFCs affect the ozone layer', along with all other web page entries, can be accessed at www.shm.monash.edu.au/ewoc99/entries.htm
The competition was run in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education in early July.
More than 100 teachers, teacher educators, meteorologists, science communicators and oceanographers from around the world attended the conference, which was held at a variety of venues in Melbourne and Ballarat.
With their winning web page entry in the competition for schools run by the CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology are Glen Waverley Primary School students Daniel Larson (left) and Vlad Zaggelidis.
New $4.25m Gippsland campus library openedTertiary Education and Training Minister Mr Phil Honeywood last week opened the new $4.5 million library at the Gippsland campus. The library, which is twice the size of the previous facility, features an electronic resources area, an information technology training room, staff offices and an extensive book collection. Mr Honeywood said the university's students and staff and the Gippsland community would reap the benefits of the new library through access to the latest research facilities. "This project is a great boost for Gippsland, with library users now able to gain hands-on instruction in advanced on-line electronic resources," Mr Honeywood said. "The Gippsland campus is providing local students with some of the most sophisticated technologies available." The new library, funded by the federal government, will also support more than 8000 distance education students in 45 countries through improved access to, and provision of, electronic resources.
Opening the new library at the Gippsland campus, the Hon. Phil Honeywood MP was joined by (seated, from left) university librarian Professor Edward Lim, chair of the Gippsland Advisory Council Mr John Hutchinson and campus director Professor John Anderson. |
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