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School of Geology secretary Ms Eilish Lalor-Fraser gets to grips with what could

be

the world's biggest and most expensive gold filling.

Technologist

Mr

Bill Kwiecien estimated the near 2kg rock, unearthed in Western Australia 12 years ago, con- tains 33oz of gold.

The Gardens Point staffer found herself biting on the

$32 000 nugget when Ainslie Bullion Co managing director

Mr

Neville Ainslie brought it to QUT for density testing.

"It would more than pay off my mortgage," joked Eilish.

"Or it could make the world's most expensive gold fill- ing!" (Photo: Suzanne Burow)

QUT rated among 1 0 best buys

QUT has been nominated among the nation's 10 "best buy" universities.

The accolade comes in the newly published 1993 Good

Universities Guide by Dean Ashenden and Sandra

Milligan.

It

describes QUT as an active, high profile institution "which looks set to make the most of its new status".

The guide lavishes five stars on QUT's depth of course offerings - making it the state's leader in this field.

The university's adults opportunity rating also collects five stars.

The guide says that QUT stakes its reputation on high-quality professional and vocational education.

"It

looks like a model of the Dawkins vision of industry-education links, with strong employer and pro- fession involvement in course design and more than 1000 practising profes- sionals involved in part-time teach- ing," it says.

The engineering faculty and its schools were seen to be "most capa- ble" in meeting their well defined mis- sion.

This was due in part to staff dedica- tion and strong ties with industry, the guide says.

"QUT takes teaching seriously. Stu- dent services are variable across cam- puses of course, but are generally sound or better."

The guide also praises QUT for its special programs aimed at women without the necessary entry require- ments to study engineering, science and technology.

"In all, some good initiatives and heading in the right direction," it says.

QUT Central Administration 2 George Street Brisbane 4000 Telephone (07) 864 2999

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Gulf waf technology comes to university

QUT has taken delivery of the latest in American military 3-D digital imaging equipment, classified as top secret during the Gulf War.

The DTW-171 3-D scanning and processing computer system provided the allies with detailed maps of target areas needed for aircraft bombing raids during Operation Desert Storm.

Although the system is most com- monly used for mapping, it also has applications in manufacturing, trans- port, mining and medical industries.

The Australian Key Centre in Land Information Studies (AKCLIS) and Space Centre for Satellite Navigation (SCSN) based at QUT successfully applied for an Australian

Research

Council (ARC) grant of $150 000 to put towards purchasing the equipment, valued at more than $350 000.

It was one of only eight ARC large equipment grants awarded Australia- wide last year, which is testimony to

the research

value of the new digital imaging system.

The

system

now based at QUT is

the only one operating in the Asian region, from Australia to North Ko- rea. Only 500 of the DTW-171 sys- tems are operational worldwide, most of these in the United States.

The US Government only recently agreed to relax security restrictions

aftd.

release the

system

to selected appli- cants throughout the world. The QUT tender was chosen from five Austral- ian submissions.

The system has the ability to gener- ate intricate 3-D models, utilising vir- tual reality technology, fully automati- cally.

It is 100 times faster than previously available technology in producing 3- D photographic maps ·using digital imaging.

The DTW-171, or Digital Twin Workstation, was developed by the General Dynamics company in the USA. The purchase arrangements for QUT were made through Leica Instru- ments in Sydney.

AKCLIS executive director Mr Scott Johnston said a consortium had bee11 formed, known as the Digital Image Photogrammetry Consortium (DIPCON), to extract maximum ben- efit from the system for the whole com- munity.

"

The consottium crosses state boundaries and involves state govern- ment instrumentalities, with a view to maximising the research capability to serve the needs of the community,"

Mr Johnston said.

"There is an awakening across Aus-

tralia regarding land management is- sues, and it's important our research information is made available not only to universities and governments but to small land care groups as well."

Head of the School of Surveying Professor Kurt Kubik said the capac- ity of the new system was so great that one university could not fully utilise its potential.

Professor Kubik said a major ad- vantage of the system was that it could reproduce three-dimensional images from photographs, enabling the user

to quickly obtain accurate measure- ments.

"The system is used for rapid on- line mapping, which is important for military purposes or for tasks such as surveying disaster areas," he said.

"But it can also be used in an indus- trial environment as a system of qual- ity control. For example in the USA, the system is used by General Motors to monitor the quality of parts on the assembly line.

"By using video cameras, techni- cians are able to produce a 3-D image of the part on screen, and then com- pare it with a blueprint for the part.

This enables them to detect faulty parts before they are installed in the vehi- cles."

The system's virtual reality capa- bilities also can be applied to medical procedures. For example, doctors can become familiar with difficult surgi- cal techniques before they are required to perform the,m on a patient.

The mining industry also is inter- ested in applying the technology to the posi tioning of drilling equipment.

Engineers realise the availability of 3- D virtual reality images of drill sites could provide huge savings in time and resources.

The Australian military has recog- nised the potential of this system for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) map- ping of strategic regions.

A research project already under way involves developing SAR images, which penetrate cloud cover, to give vital terrain features and elevation data.

The Australian Department of De- fence is in the process of converting to completely digital map products by 1996, so it will continue to rely on research carried out in this field at QUT.

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Vice-chancellor's comment New initiative~, old values

In times of rapid change it is important to reaffirm commitment to QUT's heritage and shared values. QUT's strategic advantage lies in the professional nature of its schools and the relevance of its programs to professional practice.

This commitment to professional education is much more than token- ism. It is supported by the experience and qualifications of staff. Every school and course has professionally based advisory committees that develop and review courses. Emphasis is placed on staff development related to particular professions.

QUT's approach to education has involved major investment over many years. As a result the university has developed a unique position in the higher education market as expressed by the slogan 'a university for the real world.' QUT is a leader in this area of the market. Our prime concern must be to stay ahead in this niche rather than try to move to another market position already well serviced by a number of excellent (traditional) universities.

QUT will enhance its performance as an institution which produces quality beginning professionals by teaching at postgraduate level, provid- ing inservice development for professionals who intend to practise at the

highest level, and postgraduate training related to developing an applied research base, consistent with QUT's mission.

Currently a mfmber of commentators are promoting a polarised view of universities, with the research academy at one end and the trade school at the other.

This is a simplistic view which I totally reject.

Our goal is to build professional schools which produce quality beginning professionals, enhance the level of professional practice and add to the knowledge base of the professions.

Professor Dennis Gibson

Speakers line up on enterprise · . bargaining

A

formidable line-up of interna- tional experts in industrial relations and human resource management will discuss the topical issue of en- terprise bargaining, and other as- pects of workplace management, at a one-day symposium in Brisbane on 26 August.

Organised by QUT's Key Centre in Strategic Management and the Depart- ment of Employment, Vocational Edu- cation, Training and Industrial Rela- tions (DEVETIR) the symposium will be held at P~liament House.

A selection of delegates to the World Industrial Relations Congress in Syd- ney from 30 August have agreed to attend.

Director of the key centre Professor Greg Bamber described the list of speakers as "the most distinguished array of international expertise in these fields ever assembled at a symposium in Queensland".

"With the advent of enterprise bargaining in Australia industrial relations and human resource issues are now more important than ever," he said.

Keynote speakers will include:

• Professor Oliver Clarke, labour re-. lations adviser, Organisation for Eco- nomic Cooperation. and Development (OECD)

• Professor Alan Williams from Massey University in New Zealand who will discuss the controversies about labour market deregulation from a New Zealand perspective

• Professor Lena Gonas, Research Director of the Swedish Centre for Working Life

• Professor Karl Koch, Director of the Centre for Area Studies, Univer-

sity of Surrey, UK

• Professor Tom Kochan, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and the incoming president of the International Industrial Relations Association

• Professor Russell Lansbury, De- partment of Industrial Relations, Uni- versity of Sydney ,

• Professor Jim Scoville, School of Management/Industrial Relations Cen- tre, University of Minnesota, USA

• Professor John Storey, Director, Human Resource and Change Man- agement Unit, Loughborough Univer- sity Business School, UK

• Professor Anil Verma, Faculty of Management, University of To- ronto.

The Key Centre in Strategic Man- agement is a national centre of excellence founded by the Australian Re- search Council. It is also funded by QUT, Commonwealth and State Gov- ernments, and private and public sec- tor enterprises.

It conducts research, teaching and consulting in strategic and quality management, human res.ources and labour relations.

The symposium, which qualifies as an eligible training program under the Training Guarantee Act, will be officially opened by the State Minister for Employment, Training '

and Industrial Relations, Mr Ken Vaughan and QUT's vice-chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson.

Closing date for registration is 17 August and early bird registration is available before 24 July.

For further information phone (07) 864 2822/2915.

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Apolog ies to Macq uarie

IQ 26/5/92 featured comparative graduate destination statistics for a number of institutions. ·

In the graphical representation sup- plied by Planning and Budget, Mac- quarie University was shown incorrectly.

The figures represented in IQ and the

Description Students in:

Full Time Employment Seeking Further Employment Studying Further Other

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Director, Planning and Budget

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iii AKCLIS/SCSN

A digital signal processing (DSP) laboratory worth $20 000 has been donated for teaching purposes to QUT's Centre for Signal Processing Research by NSD Australia.

The centre is part of the School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering.

Lecturer Mr Robert Prandolini

said

NSD Australia donated to the

school several analogue devices, an

ADSP 2101 development system and literature.

"Initially, the system will be used by design and project students," Mr Prandolini

said.

"In the future we will be developing laboratory experi- ments for teaching signal process- ing and telecommunications."

Present telecommunications sys- tems use an expensive spectrum ana- lyser. The analogue devices

system

can be programmed to perform this task.

"Spectrum analysers can cost more than $10 000," Mr Prandolini

said. "The

analogue devices EZ- LAB costs about $700 but NSD Aus- tralia donated t

he equipment to us

free."

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QUT arts dean Professor Paul Wilson was elected president of DASSH at its recent annual conference in Townsville. DASSH is Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humani- ties. Some of their concerns include

"inequitable" funding per student compared with other fields, and obtaining a greater share of Australian Research Council funding, especially for time release and teaching assistance to make research possible.

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The Brisbane Symphonic Band, based at QUT Carseldine, toured Maryborough 3-5 July. Conductor Mr Bernie Hoesman said the visit was sponsored by the local Rotary club. Light Classics to the Light Hearted was presented on Satur- day night 4 July in the city hall with Sousa's Stars and Stripes the climax.

Th anks to groundstaff

On behalf of the staff of the Abo- riginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit of QUT I would like to take this opportunity to thank the ground staff and

Q UT awa rd restructure _. means jobs

QUT has agreed on conditions for implementation of award restructuring for academic staff, resulting in an extra 250 tenured staff for the university over the next three years.

This follows Australian Industrial Relations Commission ratification in July last year of a broad guidelines agreement between university employer group the Australian Higher Education Indus- trial Association, and the Australian Council of Trade Unions on behalf of academic staff unions.

Deputy vice-chancellor Professor Tom Dixon said he believed the QUT case was the first example of successful award restructuring within the university environment.

"The national employer and em- ployee organisations were to develop an implementation manual following the national agreement in July 1991, but by January this year universities were advised to commence individual negotiations because of irreconcilable differences between the employer and union groups," Professor Dixon said.

QUT set up a negotiating group in February 1992 involving representatives from the Union of Australian Col- lege Academics (UACA) and QUT. Its

recommendations have now been approved by a mass meeting of staff and by QUT Council.

A major outcome was the agreement to lift the number of continuing (tenured) academic positions to about 70 percent of the total equivalent full time academic staff. QUT's current figure is about

50

percent compared with a national university average of 64 percent.

"It means effectively that QUT will be appointing more than 250 people to continuing positions in the next three years," Professor Dixon said. "This will have a huge impact on QUT's struc- ture. It will be make or break time for the university in terms of who is added ... a great opportunity."

The negotiating group comprised Professor Dixon and QUT's registrar Mr Brian Waters, personnel director Mr Michael Toohey, staff relations man- ager Mr Trevor Lovaas, equity coordi- nator Ms Nina Shatifan; and represent- ing UACA Associate Professor Howard Guille, Mr Bill Danby and staff delegates Ms Carol Windsor and Ms

coordination, a compulsory staff development planning process, and promotion.

In a letter to Professor Dixon following approval of the group's recommendations, the UACA congratulated QUT on the spirit of negotiations. But some aspects were hard fought at pro- longed meetings.

For example, while the union wanted all contract appointments to be trans- ferred automatically to continuing positions, the university wanted the right to advertise externally before making tenured appointments.

Finally, the university recognised that some staff merited special consid- eration: those who had had three or more contracts, or those who had served longer than the probationary period and whose contracts would expire before 31 December 1993.

These people would be invited to ap- ply for a continuing position. They would be interviewed by-a panel chaired by the relevant dean, with the positions externally advertised only where necessary.

Professor Dixon said a lot of the things sought by the union were right for the university. "The same criteria will be used for new appointments and promotion. Previously there has been a perception that external people can gain higher appointment levels than if people are promoted internally," he said.

"There also will be a strong link between probation and staff development.

Thi:. one year period for lecturer and above is extended to three years, with new appointees agreeing on a three year development plan with their head and then reviewing that plan each year. We call this a hard probation."

All staff would be required to par- ticipate in staff development planning reviewed on an annual basis with the head. Previously this process was vol- untary through joint goal setting and review meetings.

Professor Dixon said the elements of the agreement would be implemented immediately. Meetings with deans were

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QUT's Julie Appleton never finds herself at a loss for words - particularly when it comes to promoting healtl;!y eating among youngsters.

The senior research assistant in the School of Public Health has already written nearly a dozen books on the subject this year.

Ms Appleton, who is also involved in the School of Public Health's Centre for Public Health Research, recently dropped in at the Queensland Arts Trust Early Childhood Festival on the South Bank to read one of her

Texto

stories to a group of fascinated youngsters.

(Photo: Suzanne Burow)

maritime law ' use · r - fri _dly _'

A textbook presenting the most up-to-date reference on the com- plexities of maritime law in Aus- tralia in a "reader-friendly" way has been co-authored by two QUT academics.

Centre for Commercial and Prop- erty Law director Professor Bill Duncan and Mr Des Butler, a centre foundation member, wrote the book after winning a $5000 QUT research and development grant in 1989.

Called Maritime Law in Australia, it has been published by Legal Books.

It is the centre's first major publication in two years.

Mr Butler, a 1984 QUT law graduate who won that year's Law Institute medal for academic excellence, said when work started on the book no other texts on maritime law in Australia were available. Two other publications have been released in the interim.

"Fundamental changes in very important areas that our book has been able to include give it a broader appeal than the others, particularly with the chapter on pollution," Mr Butler said.

"The chapter on the carriage of goods by sea, for example, covers the act which came into operation in Oc-

tober 1991 and gave effect to the Visby Protocol and the SDR Protocol to The Hague Rules.

"That has effected a regime relating to the carriage of goods by sea which has been in operation in places like England for a good many years. Aus- tralia did not have this legislation before."

A member of the Maritime Law As- sociation of Australia and New Zea- land, it is Mr Butler's first effort in academic authorship. He has published numerous articles and contributed papers to major conferences, however, and is studying for his PhD focusing on an area of torts relating to nervous shock.

Professor Duncan, who is also Feez Ruthning professor of property law, said maritime law involved all areas of law -contract, applied tort (negli- gence), international (interpretation of international conventions) and crimi- nal law.

He said that despite the fact Aus- tralia was an island continent and therefore obviously placed great importance on shipping, maritime law had only recently attracted academic attention.

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Interest had been sparked by changes in society, technological ad- vances and the growing trend towards specialisation.

Maritime Law in Australia is de- signed to be accessible to a broad cross-section of practitioners, from academics and students through to those involved in the shipping and in- surance industries.

To ensure reader-friendliness, case examples of complex issues have been highlighted throughout the text.

A chapter on sea pollution reflects QUT's growing expertise in environmental law.

Professor Duncan and Mr Butler say oil-spill disasters such as the Exxon Valdez off Alaska and the Kirki near- calamity off Western Australia in July last year, serve as reminders of the vulnerability of the Australian coast - especially regions of such environmental importance as the Great Barrier Reef.

The book cover features a dramatic picture of the stricken Kirki taken from a helicopter by a news photographer.

QUT will introduce maritime law at undergraduate level from next year and at a masters level from 1994.

Maki ' ng power

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'computrendy'

The glamour of computers is being used by QUT's School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering to overcome the image problem faced

by power engineering courses. ·

Lecturer Mr Ed Palmer said there puting power to look at.all of this."

had been a marked decline in recent Computerised measurement tech- years in the number of students en- niques had cut the time of some prac- rolling in power engineering both in tical classes from three hours to 30 Australia and overseas. minutes. Benefits included more effi-

The top students were being lured cient teaching and more time fot stu- by the appeal of the more "fashion- dents to devote to understanding the able" computer-based courses such as main principles of experiments.

robotics and signal processing, also Mr Palmer said Australia was a taught within the school. world-leader in power engineering

In a determined "if you can't beat expertise.

'em, join 'em" fightback strategy, the If student numbers continued to oldest engineering discipline- with a drop, power authorities would be history of more than 100 years - has faced with a long-term need to em- been given a computerised facelift. bark on retraining of engineering

Mr Palmer said using computer graduates who have a background in techniques had allowed power engi- communications or computers.

neering practitioners to do things they In the short-term, overseas power could not do before. engineers may have to be imported into

The mathematical techniques for Australia.

analysing power systems had been in If Australia remained at the fore- existence for a long time, but the com- front, opportunities existed to earn puling power needed to implement the export dollars through consulting and mathematical procedures had not. education.

"A power system is like a huge cir- Mr Palmer said by introducing all cuit stretched over thousands of miles students to the latest technology, the with a large number of sources, loads school hoped to dispel the idea that and components," Mr Palmer ex- power systems engineering was dull

plained. and "old hat".

"To analyse all those components "We also hope to show advanced is a big mathematical exercise. Be- students research possibilities in the cause you have many components, you power area and attract potential post- have many different combinations that graduate students and associated rec can go wrong. So we need large com- search grants," he said.

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Campus quickies

It seems some people have no pride when it comes to dealing with parking fines. The following note appeared on an Application for Waiver of Parking Infringement form received at Kedron Park campus recently: "I do have a parking permit but I forgot to display. Please forgive me. I love parking people, they're doing a fantastic job. I would never want to upset them.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry." Unfortunately for the perpe- trator the shameless plea went unheeded. He was forced to pay up.

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Media and journalism lecturer Ms'Helen Yeates tasted the "real world"

media scene after the publication of what she regarded as a perfectly reasonable academic piece in the journal Social Alternatives. It analysed the media's portrayal of that holy of holies, rugby league, and concluded it promoted sexism and celebrated violence. She was totally unprepared for the multi-media hordes that descended requesting interviews. And there's still no let up - latest requests are to appear on A Current Affair and to accompany the Real Life cameras to a match to comment on the proceedings.

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Civil engineering senior lecturer Dr Frank Bullen wanted someone to cover a story on his working with the police and Mazda at a driving testing range recently to establish patterns in vehicles stopping under various conditions. Unfortunately the only journo in public affairs was at an action planning meeting for 1993. So he tried photography who, coincidentally, were at a different action planning meeting. Hard luck Frank, maybe you'll get some action next issue.

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English-speaking academics now have access to information on femi- nist movements in several European countries thanks to the linguistic skills of QUT's social science head Profes- sor Gisela Kaplan.

Professor Kaplan stresses the study conceptualises social movements in the post-war history of each country and the extensive bibliography shows a starting point for research«rs who wish to build on the material.

tant 20th-century political philosopher and theorist Hannah Arendt, who died in New York in 1975.

Ex-e· onCI - d · on promotes tele- com- muni· cation

QUT stands to become a world-recognised centre for research in data communications and teletraffic science, according to newly-appointed as- sociate professor in data communications Richard Harris.

The new book Contemporary West-

ern European Feminism was launched

recently by State Women's Policy Unit director, Ms Carolyn Mason.

Contemporary Western European Feminism is the second academic book

published by Professor Kaplan. The first was an assessment of the impor-

She also has written two textbooks,

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one on Iran for a Cult«res of the World series, and another titled

Women in Society: Australia,

which is also part of a series. This book will be avail- able this year in the United States and Canada.

Formerly associate professor of tionship with British Telecom to un- teletraffic science and deputy director derstand how they operate and pro- of the Centre for Telecommunication mote future interaction. His research Network Research at Bond University, in the UK would also impact on Professor Harris had barely warmed courses and planned research programs his chair at QUT before taking up a at QUT.

Published by Allen and Unwin, the book is the result of five years' pains- taking research in the major European nations, sifting official and other records in their original languages.

The exercise was possible because of Professor Kaplan's linguistic abili-

. ties. She speaks German fluently and

reads five other European languages.

The book's particular value to Eng- lish-speaking feminists and research- ers is that it offers access to informa- tion on feminist movements in Europe that previously would have been diffi- cult to find.

According to Professor Kaplan, it bridges a communication gap in inter- national feminism and will be particu- larly useful for those who study dif- ferent cultures.

It could increase communication be- tween European and Australian femi- nists through its address list of current organisations.

_ "One of

my research areas is mi- nority groups and the book shows the strategies European feminists em- ployed to get their plans into action,"

she explained. "It describes in detail what has been successful and why it was successful.

"Because the paradigm is the same in Australia, the methods would be rel-

evant to Australia."

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short-term research fellowship with Professor Harris said Australia was British Telecom in the United King- highly regarded in the field of

dom. teletraffic science. He hoped world

The six-week fellowship opportu- experts would "beat a path to our door"

nity came up while he was still at Bond to work on cooperative research.

University. The whole family- includ- "Overseas countries such as Saudi ing children Susan, 9, and Michael, 7, Arabia, Malaysia and New Zealand - will make the trip staying at already are sending people to our Marlesham Heath, near Ipswich, north- courses, as there is a worldwide short- east of London. age of skilled people in this field," he

Professor Harris described said.

teletraffic science as the mathematical To ensure students develop useful modelling of communication net- contacts and understand the require-

works. ments of industry, he also wants to

"Locating a design which meets per- encourage links between the faculty formance objectives while minimising and appropriate business organisa- overall cost is significant for the op- tions.

erations of both big corporations, such as British Telecom or Telecom Aus- tralia (AOTC), and small organisations wanting to make best use of their data communications systems," he ex- plained.

On a broader scale, it was data and telecommunications networks which had allowed the "global village" to become a reality.

It

had enabled computers_ to be linked in a world-wide network, al- lowed "hot-lines" to be set up between belligerent nations and made possible international commerce.

Professor Harris said the fellowship

would allow QUT to establish a rela-

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equal pay battle

Australia is leading the world in the equal-pay battle, according to British industrial r-elations expert Dr Alan Arthurs.

Australian women were paid on average about 80 percent of the wages or salaries paid their male counterparts. Women in Britain earned 73 percent and, in the United States, just 67 per- cent.

A lecturer in industrial relations at the Univer- sity of Bath's School of Management, Dr Arthurs is on a four-month visiting fellowship to QUT's Key Centre for Strategic Management.

He has a particular interest in the equal-pay issue. For the past six years, he has held the position of independent expert on equal pay ap- pointed by the Britain's Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service.

This body was the equivalent to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, he said.

"I investigate cases where women are claim- ing equal pay with men," Dr Arthurs explained.

"I am appointed by a tribunal and I have to inves- tigate the facts of the case and write conclu- sions."

A similar position in Australia is an industrial relations commissioner, but the difference is that Dr Arthurs looks at individual complaints whereas in Australia, matters are dealt with col- lectively by groups of workers in a particular occupation.

Compared with Europe and other countries the UK was "fairly middling" on equal pay, he said.

"It's all right on equal pay for equal work. The controversial area is equal pay for work of equal value."

Dr Arthurs is involved in a landmark case in- volving Lloyd's Bank, oneofBritain's "big four"

banks. The case, which began in 1986 and still is

"nowhere near completion", involves several secretaries claiming equal pay with workers called

"messengers".

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"A messenger is a kind of porter, janitor, odd- job man," he said. "It's an unskilled job and the secretaries are being paid less than these people.

"I recommended they be paid equally. That

was accepted but Lloyd's Bank claims that the pay differential is not to do with sex discrimina- tion but,rather different bargaining arrangements."

Dr Arthurs said the case was controversial be- cause of the domino effect a decision in favour of the secretaries would create.

"Because of the relationship between people's pay, it has ramifications for all women working in banking and for secretarial jobs generally," he said.

"That is why it is being fought so vigorously."

Dr Arthurs said the case would probably go to the House of Lords and right through the Euro- pean legal system.

The former Thatcher Government had been forced to introduce new legislation by a decision of the European Court.

Dr Arthurs said it was interesting that trade unions, which had been lukewarm about a stronger relationship with the rest of the Conti- nent:-now saw Europe as one way of trying to soften the policies of "a right-wing British gov- ernment".

Dr Arthurs also will study Queensland's new anti-discrimination legislation, which came into force on I July.

He said that what he had seen of the legislation so far looked "pretty advanced" but he was not sure how well some provisions could be enforced.

"The legislation covers a wide range of dis- crimination, including age," he said.

"But I'm not sure how adequately some of the provisions can be enforced, particularly if they cost a lot to bring to a tribunal."

Dr Arthurs comes to QUT with some ready-made connections. His early research in the UK looked at unionised managers, an interest shared by the new director of QUT's Key Centre in Strategic Management, Professor Greg Bamber.

His brother Mr Andy Arthurs teaches

music technology at the Queensland

Conservatorium of Music, which is housed

on the Gardens Point campus, and his sister-in-

law Ms Fiona Cullen teaches dance at QUT's

Academy of the Arts.

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Education the l<ey to legal drugs control

School of Public Health lecturer Mr Peter Davey says tighter regulation has been effective, but education is the key to controlling the prescription and use oflegal dangerous drugs in Queensland.

Before joining QUT about five years ago, Mr Davey worked at the Queens- land Health Department, where he was involved with the Drugs of Dependence Unit.

"There we monitored the use and abuse of legal dangerous drugs by pa-

tients and medical practitioners throughout the state," Mr Davey said.

''This research was important to establish the levels of dangerous legal drug • use in the community."

Mr Davey was particularly concerned about the level of barbiturate use in Queensland, as these drugs- usually in the form of sleeping pills - had a record of patient abuse and were associated with • suicides.

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tied by the Health Department as Sched- ule 4 declared drugs, which meant patients required a doctor's prescription to obtain them.

But details of barbiturate prescriptions were not closely monitored by the Health Department.

Widespread barbiturate abuse in the 1980s led to a reclassification of the drug as a Schedule 8 dangerous drug in 1987.

This meant pharmacists were required to forward details of dispensed prescriptions to the Health Department for entry into a computerised database.

The law change gave Health Depart- ment officials greater access to doctor prescribing information.

"After joining QUT, I wanted to study trends in the use of barbiturates in Queensland, so I was given access to the Health Department's database," Mr Davey said.

"In England the prescription of barbiturates has been banned. But in Queensland in 1987, about 13 per cent of dangerous drug prescriptions were barbiturates."

In 1988-89, Mr Davey collaborated with the Health Department to produce a report entitled "An Evaluation of a Regulatory Intervention on Barbiturate Dispensings", which highlighted chang- ing trends in barbiturate use since the State Government's reclassification of the drug.

''The report was really assessing if the law change had been effective in reducing barbiturate abuse," Mr Davey said.

"I wprked in conjunction with the government's environmental health director Dr Ron Rarnm and the health planning officer Mr Bill Stomfay.

"With the help ofMr Ray Duplock in QUT's Computing Services Depart- ment, we were able to analyse the Health Department's data."

Mr Davey found that the law change resulted in a SO percent reduction in the average monthly levels of barbiturate dispensing in Queensland, from 1988 to 1989.

The average rate in early 1988 was 2400 barbiturate prescriptions per month, which dropped to 1200 prescriptions by the end of 1989.

In the same period, the number of patients using barbiturates dropped from about 1600 per month to 780, while the total number of doctors prescribing barbiturates dropped from about 900 per month to 550.

"The re-scheduling of the drug obviously made doctors think twice about prescribing barbiturates, and to consider safer alternatives," Mr Davey said.

The research enabled Mr Davey to set up a model of computer programs, · which will be used to test legislation controlling other prescription drugs.

''The programs can also test educational mail-outs, where information is sent out to doctors in private practice, to see if health promotion is more effective than stronger legislation," Mr Davey said.

"Legislation is not the ideal way of controlling drug abuse. We need to determine better ways of educating doctors and the community on the effects of dangerous legal drugs."

Advance Toastmasters offers a va- riety of activities to assist members in impromptu and formal speaking, and mastering meeting procedure in a sup- portive, encouraging atmosphere. It is learning by doing and having fun doing it!

Advance Toastmasters meet every second and fourth Monday of the month in the Special Functions Room, C block, Kelvin Grove campus. The club enjoys the full support of Staff Development and aims to maintain a balance of external and QUT members.

Visitors and guests are welcome. Meetings start at 6.30pm. For information contact Ross Gorham, Com- puting Servic~ on 864 1626.

Visually impaired student Georgia Cassidy reads with a magnifier, watched by Ms Jan Lovie-Kitchin. (Photo: Suzanne Burow)

Low vision i n f o cus

QUT optometry senior lecturer Ms Jan Lovie-Kitchin says more research is needed into the problems people with low vision experience, particularly in the psycho- social area.

Ms Lovie-Kitchin said a lot of research had been done in other disability areas but surprisingly little in visual impairment.

She said the rehabilitation system was good at helping people through the crisis stage. But once they had learned various techniques and developed routines to live with their vision loss, two or three years down the track was when they could become quite depressed and in need of social support.

Ms Lovie-Kitchin was one of the

organisers and a speaker at Queens- land's first conference focusing on low vision. It was held at QUT on 17 and 18 July and attended by a wide cross-section of professionals and community workers dealing with people with low-vision as well as those with low vision themselves.

Ms Lovie-Kitchin said different types of vision loss had different effects. There was therefore a need to develop a simple, cost-effective, reasonably quick battery of tests for all visual functions.

Good testing methods were currently available for visual acuity - or the ability to see detail -but better testing of other visual problems would give a clearer overall picture of a patient's visual disability.

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This is a summary of action taken by the Vice-Chancellor, Council and committees since the 21 April 1992 Council meeting, including the following committee meetings.

• Council 3 June and 15 July

• Academic Committee I May, 19 June and 26 June

• Research Management Committee (RMC) 22 May and 5 June

• Staff Committee 25 May, 9 June, 22 June and 6 July

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee 13 May

• Planning and Resources Committee (PRC) 20 May and 24 June

• Computing Planning Committee II June

• Capital Works Committee 18 June

• Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Commit- tee(VCAC) 28 April, 12May, 9and30June

• Vice-Chancellor's Staff/Student Liaison Committee 19 May and 2 June

• Convocation Standing Committee 18 May and 29 June

• Convocation Annual General Meeting 14 July

• Equity Board 5 June.

Management Senior management retreat

The Vice-Chancellor organised a two-day residential workshop for the executive, deans and heads of divisions 2/3 July at Twin Wa- ters Resort on the Sunshine Coast. The workshop focused on issues facing the university and the group as a management team.

The larger senior staff conference (heads of schools and department/section managers) will be held at Twin Waters 13-15 August.

Christmas welfare fund

The Vice-Chancellor has approved recommendations from the Vice-Chancellor's Staff/

Student Liaison Committee to set up a Christ- mas welfare fund which will provide an opportunity for staff to contribute to charity.

Convocation activities

The Annual General Meeting of Convo- cation elected Paul McGahan as Convoca- tion Warden for a second 12-month term.

Convocation elected the following to ~rve

on Convocation Standing Committee for a 12-month period: June Dunleavy, Neil Baker, Leonie Hayes, Malcolm Cathcart, Cyril Morgan.

Academic staff development VCAC has been lool<ing at ways to encourage academic staff to attend programs offered by the Academic Staff Development

--~-'Unit (ASDU).

Faculties will make explicit in action plans their needs for ASDU support. One area iden- tified as requiring support across QUT is training for staff to supervise postgraduate students.

A TSI students

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee endorsed procedures for self iden- tification by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Is- lander students for the purpose of DEET study support.

Equity issues

Equity Board has made recommendations to the Vice-Chancellor on a number of initiatives including:

• establishment of equity committees within each faculty and division

• establishment of an equity initiatives fund which would form part of the equity plan initiatives to improve access and support for equity target groups

"'-- • revision of QUT's mission and goals to

indicate clearly the university's commitment to equal opportunity and affirmative action goals for staff and .students

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• adoption of policy on parking for people with disabilities and special equipment purchase and loans for students with disabilities

• a review of QUT's sexual harassment policy.

Agreement with Queensland Museum Council approved an agreement which provides for affiliation between QUT and the Queensland Museum. The agreement aims to foster closer cooperation for t~e purposes of encouraging collaborative research, collection maintenance and education in the sciences, history and technology.

Finance. fabric and planning Unit review

Science was the first faculty to be looked at under QUT's unit review process. The review committee, chaired by Council member Leneen Forde, visited QUT from 18 to 20 May.

The draft report of the review committee has been forwarded to the faculty for consid- eration. The committee's recommendations and the faculty's comments will be forwarded to Planning and Resources Committee and Council in August/September.

The second faculty to be reviewed was Law. The review panel, chaired by Council member Ken Dredge, visited QUT from 3 to 5 June.

Educational profile

Council's July meeting approved the uni-

versity's educational profile for the 1993-- 1995 triennium, including the following at- tachments:

• educational profile data collection ta- bles

• equity plan update

• Aboriginal education strategy update

• research management plan.

QUT 1996

The Vice-Chancellor has been working on a statement of the university's long-term directions. A draft of the statement has been forwarded to senior managers and committees for comment.

Information technology strategy Planning and Resources Committee has commented on the green paper Information technology strategy put together by Com- puting Planning Committee. Computing Planning Committee expects to recommend a white paper strategy to PRC's 19 August meeting.

Capital development

The new nursing building at Kelvin Grove was officially opened by the Queensland Premier on 7 July.

The information technology and engineering building at Gardens Point will be officially opened by the Governor General in the afternoon on II August. Gardens Point renovations of L Block and the Library will start in the near future.

Construction of the B Block replacement building at Kelvin Grove is well under way.

The building will be finished in the ftrst quarter of 1993. Plans for the Health Stage II project are well advanced. Construction is expected to start before the end of tbis year.

Plans for the administration and community precinct at Kelvin Grove are also under way.

Sunshine Coast

The Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice- Chancellor met with senior officers from TAFE.TEQ to discuss a number of issues including Kedron Park, TAFE.TEQ resi- dences at Kelvin Grove and facilities for the Sunshine Coast.

Regarding the Sunshine Coast campus, QUT is currently teaching from the Nambour Community College which has adequate facilities for the time being although it is un- likely that construction on the Sippy Downs campus will commence before 1995.

In the meantime TAFE.TEQ has raised the possibility of a joint project to construct facilities at TAFE's Mooloolaba site. QUT would use the facilities until Sippy Downs has buildings.

Purchase of houses

The Vice-Chancellor took executive action to approve purchase of a house at 15 School Street and one at 158 Victoria Park Road in Kelvin Grove. The university needs to acquire a number of private homes in the area over the next few years to carry out its strategic plan for Kelvin Grove campus.

March quarterly budget review PRC's May meeting approved the first revision of the 1992 budget and raised the following points on this year's action planning and budgeting process.

• Given amalgamation and reorganisation it will not be practical to consider previous year allocations as bases against which faculties can claim that allocations are gener- ous or deficient. QUT has a sophisticated action planning process to which it should adhere. References to dollar allocations per EFTSU will be used as an additional reference to inform but not direct the planning and budget process.

• Given competing needs for resourcing the 1993 budget will require difficult deci- sions.

Public finance standards report PRC's May meeting accepted a report from the Finance and Facilities Director on complying with the Public Finance Stand- ards for the quarter January to March 1992 in accordance with the requirements of the Accounting Practices Manual.

Financial statements 1991

Council noted financial statements for the year ending 31 December 1991.

Proposed art museum

The Art Collection Committee is seeking a permanent home for the university's art collection. QUT has the second largest public collection in Queensland.

The Vice-Chancellor has opened discus- sions with the National Trust and State Gov- ernment on an option to convert the ground floor of Old Government House into a Uni- versity Art Gallery.

Art works

Melville Haysom's family has placed on permanent loan two works from the artist, Self portrait (late 1950s) and The Judgement of Paris ( 1946).

Art Collection Committee ratified pur- chases of new works by the Curator

• Thecla Puruntatameri Pamajine design 1991.($210)

• Thecla Puruntatameri Arlirupa (Bird) 1992 ($150)

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• Dean Bowen Untitled (Crashing plane) (first state) 1991 ($350)

• Dean Bowen Untitled (Crashing plane) (second state) 1991 ($350)

• Lorraine Jenyns The Fall in Time 1990 ($2 500)

• Pam Debel\ham Wake 1990 ($580)

• Jack Parkinson Thames evening 1992 ($350)

• Eugene Carchesio Untitled (From the • Museum of Silence) 1992 ($700)

• Gordon Sheperdson The eye of the ko- sher(no39) 1991 ($850)

• Andrew Arnaoutopoulos From the fac- tory (no 9) 1984 ($400)

• Andrew Arnaoutopoulos Untitled (no I) 1988 ($450)

• Judy Watson Low tide walk 1991 ($1,700).

Staff

Academic award restructuring Council's July meeting approved an academic award restructuring package for in- corporation in QUT's industrial arrangements.

Continuing fractional-time appoint-

ments ·

Council approved amended policy on fractional-time appointment of staff. The new policy allows for continuing appointments of academic staff and staff on academically equated salaries on a fractional-time basis.

Senior appointments

Professor Tony Parker started as Head of School of Human Movement Studies on 13 July.

Professor Brian Hansford starts as Head of School of Curriculum and Professional Studies on 28 July.

Professor Allan Layton will start as Head of School of Economics and Public Policy on 7 September.

Professor Vicki Sara will start as Head of School of Life Science on I January next year.

Selection processes are still underway for the Head of School of Chemistry, a professorial position in information security and associate professorial positions in nursing (one of two positions) and early childhood.

Associate professor positions in finance and in occupational health and safety have been readvertised. Positions of professor in mathematics education, associate professor in human resource management, associate professor in cryptology, associate professor in nursing (research and consultancy) and associate professor in industrial relations and/

or management will be readvertised.

New professorial positions Council agreed to:

• create the position of Associate Profes- sor in Communication and Organisational Studies as a tenurable position in the School of Communication and Organisational Stud- ies

• upgrade the position of Associate Pro- fessor in Health, created in July 1991, to the position of Professor of Public Health.

Adjunct professors

The Vice-Chancellor took executive action to approve appointment of

• Professor Barry Fraser from Curtin Uni- versity's Science and Mathematics Educa- tion Centre as an adjunct professor in the Education Faculty in July this year

• Mr Robert Lee, Director of Research and Development at Wilde Sapte in London, as an adjunct professor in the Law Faculty for two months from 29 June. The appointment will be funded by the Queensland Law Society.

Council agreed to appoint Professor David R Lairson as an adjunct professor in the Fac- ulty of Health from August 1992 until Feb- ruary 1993.

Council agreed to appoint the following as adjunct professors in the Faculty of Sci- ence for Semester 2 1992:

• Professor Amode Sen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary

• Professor Murlie Gupta,-George Wash- ington University.

Teaching and research HEC discussion papers

Academic Committee responded to a collection of discussion papers'Circulated by the Higher Education Council (HEC) on the quality issue. The response was prepared by an Academic Committee working party.

HEC representatives visited institutions including QUT to discuss responses to the papers.

Mayer Committee report

Academic Committee has set up a working party to develop a QUT response to the Report on employment-related key compe- tencies for post-compulsory education and training.

The report was written by a joint committee of the Australian Education Council and the Ministers for Vocational Education, Employment and Training which was chaired

by Eric Mayer.

Academic awards

Research ManagementCommittee'sJune meeting accepted six monthly progress reports from PhD and research master degree students.

Academic Committee awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree to Mr Graeme Jones in the Centre for Signal Processing Research for his thesis 'Instrumental frequency time-

frequenc~ distributions and the analysis of multicomponent signals'.

Academic Committee also made awards to additional first semester graduands.

Police graduation

The combined Griffith/QUT graduation

• ceremony for the advanced certificate in policing course was held on 29 May.

Course development/review

Academic Committee has accredited the following courses to December 1997:

• Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical)

• Graduate Diploma in Landscape Archi- tecture

• Graduate Diploma in Industrial Design

• Master of Health Science

• Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion (formerly the Graduate Diploma in Health Science [Health Education])

• Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

• Bachelor of Information Technology

• Graduate Diploma in Computing Sci- ence

• Graduate Diploma in Information Sys- tems (formerly the Graduate Diploma in Commercial Computing)

• Master of Business Administration (De- sign and Engineering)

• Master of Engineering Science (Engi- neering Management).

Council'sJuly meeting approved preliminary proposals for the following courses proposed for introduction in 1994:

• Bachelor of Technology (Electrical)

• Master of Engineering Science (Space Engineering)

• Generic honours year in health

• Bachelor of Information Technology (Data Communications).

Faculties will be asked to address spe- cific issues raised about the courses by Aca- demic Committee in any future accredita- tion submissions.

Development of fee paying courses Council's 3 June meeting approved an amendment to the course development process to allow faculties which plan to introduce a full-fee paying course to proceed di- rectly to the development of a preliminary proposal, following consultation with the office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Aca- demic). Faculties will no longer be required to submit a request for course planning approval to introduce a full-fee paying course.

International education

The Vice-Chancellor spent the last week of June in Taiwan at the invitation of the Taiwanese Government to explore educational links.

Following discussion at VCAC, the Vice- Chancellor has set up a working party chaired by Professor Alan Cumming to investigate a number of problems to do with recruitment of overseas students.

Faculty research management plans Research Management Committee has compiled a set of guidelines for faculties to use in preparing their research management plans. The guidelines focus on further development of the University's research profile and internationalisation.

Policy on centres

Council's July meeting approved a re- vised policy on centres as proposed by Aca- demic Committee.

Council agreed to request faculties, which have centres with reporting structures anoma- lous to the requirements set out in the new centres policy, to address these structures to determine whether the status of these centres should be normalised within three years.

Centre annual reports

Academic Committee considered Re- search Management Committee's summa- ries and assessments of 1991 centre annual reports and referred them to faculty academic boards for action as appropriate.

Research concentration

Academic Committee approved creation of a research concentration in telecommunications network research in the Faculty of Information Technology.

Visiting research fellowships Academic Committee adopted a new visiting research fellowship scheme recommended by Research Management Commit- tee.

The scheme is intended to bring researchers of international repute to QUT for between 30 and 180 days for collaborative research projects.

Research grant schemes

As a result of Research Management Committee's review of the existing research

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and development supports grants scheme, Academic Committee has replaced the scheme with two new grant schemes: the new researcher grants scheme (NRGS) and the meritorious project grants scheme (MPGS).

The NRGS will provide seeding funds for up to three years to new researchers to strengthen their competitiveness in gaining external support.

The MPGS will provide funds to enable experienced researchers to initiate high quality research that will become competitive externally.

RMC developed principles to guide faculties in designating priority areas for Aus- tralian Postgraduate Research Award (APRA) purposes for 1993. Although APRA awards are based entirely on merit, if an applicant is undertaking study in a priority area they receive an additional stipend.

Access to results/marks

Freedom of information legislation will soon be adopted in Queensland and Aca- demic Committee has adopted a policy of openness with respect to the release of assessment results to fit in with the new legislation.

The policy specifies the circumstances under which students may obtain their final marks, or obtain or peruse their examination scripts, answers or other forms of assessment.

Course time limits

Academic Committee added to its policy on maximum time limit for completion of courses a maximum time limit of two years for advanced and graduate certificate courses.

Faculty assessment policies

As a result of an Academic Processes and Rules Committee report, Academic Com- mittee requested faculties to review their assessment policies in the light of the Uni- versity's policy on assessment.

Copies of new and amended policies will be issued with the next MOPP update.

AVCC

The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Com- mittee met at QUT on 15/16June. An AVCC academic standards panel on English visited QUT on 28 May to meet with staff from the Humanities School and discuss QUT's new Bachelor of Arts degree.

Secret Treasures of Russia:

The Queensland Art GaiJery is currently displaying a historical exhibition of Russian jewellery and or- naments spanning the last I 000 years. The social club has arranged a "champagne viewing" of the ex- hibit. This involves drinks and hors- d'oeuvres being served at the QAG prior to a brief lecture on the ex- hibit, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.

Date: 5.45pm Wednesday, 5 Au- gust 1992. Cost: $22 per head (in- clusive of refreshments). Booking Deadline: 3 August 1992

Patriot Games: starring Harrison Ford, starts its season in Brisbane in late August. The movie is an action-thriller based upon the novel by Thomas Clancy. The social club has organised a viewing during the week of its opening.

Date: Evening session (exact time to be advised), Saturday 22 August 1992. Cost: $7 per head. Booking Deadline: 19 August 1992

42nd Street: A Broadway spec- tacular described as the "Mother of All Musicals" kicks off its season at the Lyric Theatre soon.

Featuring music from a wide array of Broadway hits, 42nd Street features an Australian cast including 40 tap dancers, chorus girls, glit- tering costumes and lavish sets.

Time: 8pm Wednesday, 19 Sep- tember 1992. Cost: $42 per ticket.

Booking Deadline: 22 August 1992 If you are interested in attending any of the events listed above contact Keith Done on 864 2148.

Social club functions are open to all QUT staff and friends - you do not have to be a member of the social club.