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| Mr Peter Wade with the 'Always One Step Ahead' award, which was presented to him by the Board of Monash IVF in appreciation of his role in establishing the company. |
Australia's 'leading education manager', Mr Peter Wade, was farewelled by Monash staff last week after 14 years of service to the university.
Speaking at a function to celebrate his achievements and wish him well for the future, vice-chancellor Professor David Robinson said the university had gained immensely from Mr Wade's period in office.
"He has complemented and enabled the leadership of the three vice-chancellors whom he has served, and throughout that time has widely and generously shared his professional skills not only with staff and students of the university, but with the wider community as well," Professor Robinson said.
"Monash's position today owes much to the wisdom and experience that Peter has brought to bear on the best use and conservation of the financial and other resources of the university."
Professor Louis Waller, who remarked that he had quickly discovered common interests with Mr Wade when they met 14 years ago, went on to describe their shared understanding of the real purposes and true business of a university.
Using Benjamin Disraeli's words, Professor Waller said he and Mr Wade were in agreement that "a university should be a place of light, liberty and learning".
"Peter has always held that idea, that ideal, of a university. He has bent his incomparable efforts in the service of this university so that ideal may be attained," he said.
Mr Wade, in response, acknowledged the value of the friendships he had enjoyed with Professor Waller and many other staff at Monash, including his senior management team.
"Also adding colour and interest were the additional things I was able to be involved in, such as the Accident Research Centre, the Playbox Theatre Centre, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Monash Gallery, the development of Monash IVF, a wind tunnel in Engineering, Open Learning and Montech, and giving seminars on finance and management in a number of faculties," Mr Wade said.
"I joined Monash when it was a one campus university with about 14,000 students and a budget of $120 million. I am about to leave a university of over 40,000 students on seven campuses with a budget of around $600 million.
"Over the years, with great support from the academic community, we have done what was needed to set Monash on its way. It is now poised to take its place, rightfully, as a truly global university."
READS pilot service launchedThe vice-chancellor Professor David Robinson last week officially launched the Regional Electronic Access and Delivery Serials (READS) Project, a resource-sharing pilot project jointly funded by the libraries of Melbourne, La Trobe and Monash universities. Professor Robinson said the project demonstrated what cooperation between universities could achieve. "The system will treble the resources available to researchers and postgraduate students, as well as having the potential to be sold overseas," he said. The project makes use of web-based and e-commerce technologies to give academic staff, postgraduates and researchers access to a virtual collection of physics and chemistry serials held by at least one of the three university libraries. Patrons can browse the table-of-contents of each journal or search by keyword for articles of interest, and then request delivery of articles. Requested articles will be despatched within 48 hours. The system, which was developed at Monash, was coordinated by a steering committee convened by Monash librarian Professor Edward Lim. The committee also included Mrs Marta Chiba from Monash, La Trobe University's Ms Jan Maslen, Ms Bess Secomb from Melbourne University and READS project officer Ms Kate Roberts. If successful, the project will be extended to other disciplines in science, technology and medicine. The READS web site can be accessed at http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/reads. Further information can be obtained from customer services librarian Mr George Leighfield on extn 52652. |
Making the move
The students were filmed in a Seven-Up style documentary over a three-year period, first as Year 12 students in 1996, then towards the end of their first year at uni in 1997, and again in 1999. The Transition Program coordinator, Dr Mark Peel, said the students' observations of school, family relationships and student life were not only relevant for Year 12 students, they also offered parents and teachers an interesting and informative resource. Copies of the video have been sent to all Monash faculties and libraries. Further information on the Monash Transition Program can be found on the web at http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/transition/ |
Dean of Science to leave MonashProfessor Ron Davies, who has been dean of Science at Monash since 1996, will leave the university at the end of the year. Since his appointment, Professor Davies has been involved in a major review of the faculty, which amongst other matters, addressed the core problem of declining interest by prospective students in science which was occurring nationally. Following the review, Professor Davies managed the implementation of recommendations on the faculty structure and operations. This included the development of a new Bachelor of Science program which has since gained significant support and interest from secondary schools. Considering now the further changes needed, Professor Davies said that he and the vice-chancellor, Professor David Robinson, had felt that it would be in the university's best interests for the faculty to move forward under the leadership of a new dean. Commenting on this decision, Professor Robinson said that Professor Davies' considerable efforts for the benefit of the Science faculty have been widely appreciated. "He has worked with real commitment to secure the faculty's future," Professor Robinson said. |
Monash University has made an offer to the NTEU containing a number of significant benefits for staff in settlement of the current round of enterprise bargaining for academic and general staff (non-trades and services).
In announcing the offer, Professor Alan Lindsay said he was sure all would agree that it was in the interests of Monash and its staff to try and resolve this round of enterprise bargaining as quickly as possible so that there would be no distraction from the important work of building a global Monash to the great benefit of all our students and staff.
"For this reason, the offer has been designed to be generous, given the combination of the current financial constraints and the requirements on the university to remain financially responsible," Professor Lindsay said.
"I am hopeful that agreement can be reached on this offer and particularly on the conditions necessary for the university to attract the additional 2 per cent Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs supplementary salary funding which will be needed to subsidise the proposed salary increase to all academic and general (non trades and services) staff.
"We are still waiting for confirmation of the funding conditions from DETYA, but early advice indicates that some of these have already been implemented at Monash through the last two enterprise agreements."
The university's offer includes:
Full details of the university's offer can be found at www.monash.edu.au/entbarg/
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documentary video detailing how a group of students made their way from
school to university has been produced by the Monash Transition Program
and the Prospective Students Office and distributed to schools across
Victoria.