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Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Nf 378.944 UNI
Created/Published
Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
Issue
1987, no. 19 (20 Nov., 1987)
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Contents

UNIKEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Swedish students at Materials Science and Engineering 1
ARGS increase for 1988 1
Admin charge 1
Social Science degree boasts vocational flavour 1
First Social Work/Laws degree in Australia 1
Symposium examines Australia/Asia relations under microscope 2
SYMPOSIUM PAPERS TO BE PUBLISHED 2
Activists for law reform-the Legal Issues Project 2
Steady advances attract steady funds 3
One-eyed view of universities worries researcher into stereoscopic vision 3
Born in the Cattle: white/ Aboriginal co-operation 3
Communication skills important -Engineering Geology Professor 3
NH&MRC Research Grants 1988 4
NH&MRC grants for 1986-89 UNSW summary 4
Project grants by major institutions 4
Term Dates 1988 5
Schools 5
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES-Session dates, enrolments, exams, public holidays 5
In brief ... Postgraduate Association barbecue 6
AutoCAD training courses 6
AGL donation to UNSW 6
Memorabilia clearance 6
First recipients of Bob Pitney Award 6
Medical students help cancer foundation 6
UNSW involvement in Medical Research Week 6
Monomeeth Association dinner 6
Chancellery computer network opened 6
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE APPOINTMENT REVIEW APPEALS COMMITTEE PANEL FOR 1 JANUARY 1988-31 DECEMBER 1990 6
Diary covering 21 Nov-6 Dec 6
Advertising 6
Retirements Fibre-optic pioneer retires next month 7
'Too much emphasis on facts and figures', says retiring teacher 7
Jervis Bay 2000-symposium timing ’spot on’ 7
PhD Student-‘Outstanding young Australian’ 7
Music for Christmas 7
Arts/technology meld-at last 7
Sport UNSW Olympic hopefuls at World Judo Titles 8
Harrison takes third State title 8
Deek and the Shark upstaged 8
Feedback Graduation address under attack 8
The Students' Union column 8
Getting the dollar to follow the patient 8
Leaking Roundhouse draws criticism 8

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UNIKEN  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

No. 239 (No. 19 of 1987)  

Published fortnightly by the Public Affairs Unit  

Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBF 4388  

20 November 1987  

Swedish students at Materials  

Science and Engineering  

ARGS increase for 1988  

Researchers at UNSW have had  

their best year ever in the highly  

competitive ARCS scheme for  

supporting research in higher  

education. Of the 20 Autralian  

universities, only eight had their  

funding increased. UNSW had the  

largest increase with $589,771 over  

the 1987 figure, taking the total to  

$4,064,368 for 1988.  

UNSW received by far the largest  

number of grants (188) and was  

second only in the total value of  

the grants to the University of  

Sydney ($4,369,385, for 150  

projects including one grant of  

$500,000 for astronomical equip-  

ment).  

This is the last year of the ARCS  

scheme, and in terms of the money  

made available to it by the Com-  

monwealth Government, it had less  

money to distribute than in 1987,  

both in dollars and in real terms  

($32,295,222 reduction of  

$75,594 over the 1987 total of  

'532,370,816). Next year the  

Government plans to incorporate  

the ARCS scheme into new  

Australian Research Council.  

Increases for UNSW were re-  

ceived across most disciplinary  

areas, with Physical Sciences (39  

per cent up on 1987), Biological  

Sciences Molecular Biology and  

Cell Metabolism (30 per cent up),  

Social Sciences (25 per cent up),  

Engineering and Applied Sciences  

(17 per cent up) and Chemical  

Sciences and Humanities (both  

16 per cent up). The only drops  

were in Earth Sciences (19 percent  

down) and Biological Sciences  

Plant and Animal Biology (15 per  

cent down).  

UNSW has also scored very  

well in the much-prized National  

Research Fellowships scheme for  

supporting young, up-and-coming  

researchers. Out of the 65 National  

Research Fellowships awarded  

nationally, UNSW received seven.  

Of these, two are in the ‘top-flight’  

category of Queen Elizabeth II  

Fellowships (15 national awards).  

One six-year Program Grant has  

been awarded to Professor lan  

Sloan, of the School of Mathe-  

matics, commencing with $BO,OOO  

in 1988. Overall, $490,000 (plus  

indexation) has been committed to  

his project for research into numeri-  

cal analysis for integrals, integrals  

equations and boundary-value  

problems.  

Of the 188 projects funded for  

UNSW, five new projects receive  

more than $60,000 each (in addi-  

tion to the new program grant  

mentioned):  

• Biological Sciences (Molecular  

Biology and Cell Metabolism):  

$115,812 to Dr Ray Norton,  

School of Biochemistry, for  

research into NMR study of struc-  

ture-activity relationships in sea  

anemone polypeptides.  

• Biological Sciences (Plant and  

Animal Biology): $61,709 to  

Associate Professor Mark Rowe,  

School of Physiology and Pharma-  

cology, for research into coding  

mechanisms in tactile sensation  

(see separate story, page 3).  

• Chemical Sciences: $120,000 to  

Dr Alan Duffield, Biomedical Mass  

Spectrometry Unit, Professor Barry  

Milborrow, Biochemistry, and Pro-  

fessor David Black, Chemistry for  

research into mass spectrometry:  

applications to scientific research.  

• Engineering and Applied  

Sciences: $60,639 to Professor  

Martin Green, School of Electrical  

Engineering and Computer Science,  

for research into thin film crystal-  

line silicon solar cells.  

• Engineering and Applied  

Sciences: $77,000 to Dr Chris  

Sorrell and Associate Professor Eric  

McCartney, School of Materials  

Science and Engineering, for re-  

search into phase equilibria, densifi-  

cation, and properties of advanced  

ceramics.  

Others to receive the largest new  

project grants in their respective  

disciplines were:  

• Earth Sciences: $25,000 to  

Associate Professor Bob Robins,  

Department of Mineral Processing  

and Extractive Metallurgy, Dr  

Michael Knight, Centre for Ground-  

water Management and Hydro-  

geology, and Professor Gerry  

Govett, Department of Applied  

Geology, for research into trace  

analysis of solutions in mineral  

processing environmental geology  

and exploration geochemistry.  

• Humanities: $28,000 to Dr  

Jamie Kassler, School of English,  

for research into the role of music  

in the transformation of medicine.  

• Physical Sciences: $53,000 to  

Dr Michael Gal, School of Physics,  

for into photolumines-  

cence spectometer for the study o}  

semiconductor layer structures.  

• Social Sciences: $29,800 to  

Professor Barbara Gillam, School of  

Psychology, for research into the  

stimulus determinants of stereo-  

scopic depth perception (see separ-  

ate story, page 3).  

Full details of all ARCS to  

UNSW will be published in the next  

issue of UNIKEN.  

Admin charge  

UNSW Council has called on the  

Commonwealth Government to  

review as matter of urgency  

the imposition of the $263  

higher education administration  

charge on students.  

The Council says the review is  

necessary in the light of the  

Government’s commitment to  

participation and equity in higher  

education.  

The Council’s action, which arises  

out of their November meeting,  

is in response to motion on  

notice from student-elected  

member of Council, Mr Antony  

Sachs.  

In its resolution, the Council  

acknowledges that the adminis-  

tration charge has had sub-  

stantial impact upon enrolments  

at UNSW specifically and higher  

education more generally. It says  

the groups most adversely af-  

fected include mature-aged stu-  

dents, female students, students  

with dependent children, part-  

time students, and students with  

household incomes just above  

AUSTUDY thresholds.  

Speaking after the Council meeting,  

Mr Sachs said the Council’s  

stand is important and hopes  

that it will lead to an increased  

awareness on campus of the  

problems education is facing.  

‘Hopefully, this will encourage the  

Government to review further  

the imposition of the fee. Any  

further fees would increase the  

problem exponentially.’  

See inside for. ..  

• H&MR grants (page 4)  

• Term Dates (page 5)  

Social Science degree boasts vocational flavour  

UNSW’s re-structured Bachelor  

of Social Science degree is an  

innovative step by the University  

to introduce vocational strand  

to arts-oriented education.  

For the first time next year, and  

with target intake of 100 students,  

the Social Science course will have  

its own separate UCAC (Univer-  

sities and Colleges Admissions  

Centre) entry intake — outside the  

ambit of the Arts intake. The  

course will have its own HSC  

cut-off mark, according to Mr  

George Bindon, Sub-Dean of the  

Faculty of Arts and joint co-  

ordinator (along with Mr Michael  

Cass, School of Sociology) of the  

course.  

Believed to be the first of its  

kind in Australia, the new-style  

course has been identified and  

funded as corporate initiative for  

1988.  

Mr Bindon says the course is  

primarily aimed at secondary  

school students wanting generalist  

degree training combined with  

useful vocational skills such as  

computing, statistics and research  

methods.  

‘While the Bachelor of Social  

Science is more structured degree  

than Bachelor of Arts, it still  

maintains many of the advantages  

of an Arts degree.  

‘Arts enables students to enter  

diversity of careers — and this is  

its great strength.’  

Mr Bindon says the Bachelor  

of Social Science took its first  

students in 1970 but, until 1987,  

was only offered as an honours  

degree. Under its new structure,  

it will be available as three-year  

pass as well as four-year honours  

degree. It took its initial intake of  

30 first year students this year.  

Students undetake core pro-  

gram of social science theory, and  

methodology and computer appli-  

cation subjects. As well they must  

undertake major sequence from  

either Computer Sciende, Economic  

History, Economics, Geography,  

History, Industrial Relations, Math-  

ematics, Philosophy, Political  

Science, Psychology, Science and  

Technology Studies, Sociology or  

Statistics.  

Students in years and will  

undergo intensive workshops where  

they are involved in ‘hands on’ case  

studies.  

‘We’ll be inviting people from  

both the private and public sectors  

into the classroom to try to give  

students flavour of what it’s  

like in the work envirnoment’,  

Mr Bindon says.  

‘We hope that these people will  

be able to help assess the students’  

work on these projects, so that it  

isn’t just an academic assessment.’  

Perhaps the best insight into the  

reasons for developing the Bachelor  

of Social Science can be found in  

the course’s brochure which says:  

‘One of the major characteristics  

of contemporary Australian society  

is the increasing significance of  

large public and private organiza-  

tions. All of us have to cope with  

these major social institutions,  

whether as employees, clients or  

adversaries.’  

The Bachelor of Social Science  

degree provides undergraduates  

with an inderdisciplinary prepara-  

tion for employment in modem  

organizations which involve policy  

analysis and review, project design  

and oversight/co-ordination, pro-  

gram planning, implementation and  

evaluation, or operations manage-  

ment.  

This degree course is designed to  

provide both intellectual and practi-  

cal skills. In addition to exposing  

students to critical analysis of the  

history, theory and development of  

social thought, the teaching pro-  

gram emphasizes the development  

of career-oriented skills.’  

The brochure claims the degree  

‘will develop into one of the major,  

and most distinctive, offerings at  

the University of NSW over the  

next few years’.  

First Social Work/Laws  

degree in Australia  

UNSW will introduce com-  

bined Bachelor of Social Work/  

Bachelor of Laws degree in 1988,  

believed to be the first such course  

in Australia.  

The combined degree course  

integrates studies in both law and  

social work and will take six years  

instead of the usual five for most  

other combined degree law courses.  

The expected annual student intake  

will start at five in 1988, increasing  

to 10 in 1989 and 15 in 1990.  

Head of the School of Social  

Work, Professor Tony Vinson, says  

many of the major advances in  

social welfare in Australia during  

the 1980s have involved the exten-  

sion of legal and welfare rights.  

Significant examples of this, he  

says, include the social security  

appeals system and the Common-  

wealth freedom of information  

legislation.  

‘Social workers increasingly have  

come to view the law as means of  

assisting individuals, families and  

community groups with such issues  

as consumer protection, tenancy  

obligations and entitlements, land  

rights, and child custody and family  

property disputes’, he says.  

From the lawyers’ point of view,  

the Head of the School of Law,  

Professor Garth Nettheim, says the  

degree will be especially relevant to  

lawyers working in criminal law,  

independent legal centres, legal  

service commissions and smaller  

solicitors’ practices.  

‘These lawyers are frequently  

called upon to deal with cases that  

have both social welfare and legal  

implications.’  

Two students from Sweden, Helene Logren (left) and Eva Lindh, are currently  

enrolled in the School of Materials Science and Engineering working on project  

in superconducting ceramics. Both Eva and Helene are from the Royal Institute of  

Technology in Stockholm where they are studying for degrees in Civil Engineering.  

In Scandinavia, all Engineering degrees come under Civil Engineering. Compared  

with Australian tertiary studies, their degree is the equivalent of four-and-a-half  

years in Materials Science and Engineering, and in workload, is between  

Bachelor degree and Masters degree. When deciding to undertake their final  

project outside Sweden, the girls chose UNSW and have enrolled as miscellaneous  

students.  

Kevin Doig  

Rob Simms  

Mr George Bindon ... joint co-ordinator  

of the re-structured Bachelor of Social  

Science degree.  

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