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As part of a $3 million Australian International Development and As- sistance Bureau (AIDAB) contract QUT lecturers are conducting work- shops in Papua New Guinea for teachers college lecturers.
The project is a collaborative ven- ture involving the Papua New Guinea Department of Education, the Uni- versity of Papua New Guinea and QUT.
Director of the project, Dr Clarrie Burke of the School of Cultural and Policy Studies, said the five-year project which commenced in 1990
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r'n - time action with the help of more than 240 QUT early childhood edu- cation students.
They are combining their talents in a range of activities for children at the annual spring festival now underway in the city Botanic Gar- dens until 22 September.
Among them is a group of 20 stu- dents and staff taking part in the en- chanting twilight parades starting 6pm each night.
Reminiscent of the Expo '88 night parades, the narrated fantasia story Wizard Lizard and the Coming of the Light will feature larger-than-life characters including Wizard Lizard, Glider Spider, Dragon Fly and Bul- bous Bulltoad.
Early childhood studies lecturer Ms Cassandra Weddell said the Warana participation was a direct result of a new subject Play, Drama and Social Education.
Assessment of the subject, which forms part of the Bachelor of Teach- ing (Early Childhood) course, in- cludes community involvement.
Students are expected to organise and perform in community events or for children in hospitals or in a vari- ety of educational and care settings.
Ms Weddell, a lecturer in arts edu- cation, language and literacy, said her approach to Warana organisers was welcomed with open arms.
"Warana was right there on our doorstep so we took the initiative.
Warana is a significant community event highlighting the arts for fami- lies in a very inviting way," she said.
"It has provided a very exciting opportunity for the students and they have become very enthusiastic about it."
The students, who are sacrificing precious mid-semester holiday time, are either performing or part of a support crew. They form the major- ity of the volunteer Warana team.
Some have teamed with Ameri- can Indians who were part of the Dances With Wolves movie in the
had several components.
A major component involves the presentation of a range of inservice workshops to lecturers in PNG. Lt•c- turer in Curriculum and Profes- sional Studies Mr Merv Wilkinson is the inservice coordinator for the project.
"We are endeavouring to assist Papua New Guinea lecturers to be more critically reflective in their curriculum and teaching practices,"
Mr Wilkinson explained.
As a follow up to the workshops, lecturers are encouraged to become
Mak'sho Native American Village.
Others are taking part in a Singa- pore Lantern Village and a Creation Station, a huge marquee of art materi- als. About 70 students are leading
"story telling trees" for children. Tra- dition, folk and modem favourites like The Very Hungry Caterpillar will be
involved in action research pro- grams in their college settings and to form intercollege networks with colleagues which will enhance sustainability of workshop learnings.
During 1991, workshops were conducted in Port Moresby in cur- riculum development, science/maths and English language.
"The 1991 workshops have re- ceived excellent feedback. It was privilege to work with such dedi- cated group of PNG lecturers," Mr Wilkinson said.
presented not with books, but finger puppets and captivating props.
Other students will be involved in street theatre and human chess sports.
Ms Weddell said it was the first time the School of Early Childhood had focused on visual and performing arts in the curriculum.
QUT Central Administration 2 George Street Brisbane 4000 Telephone (07) 864 2999
It was expected that by the end of the project in 1994 nearly all lectur- ers in PNG teachers colleges will have participated in the project inservice workshops.
The other major component of the project involves PNG lecturers studying within the Faculty of Edu- cation at QUT. Associate Professor Bob Elliott, the QUT course coordi- nator for the project, said: "Involve- ment with these scholars commences in October of the year before they arrive in Brisbane. This involves a two-week workshop in Port
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Jessica Ede at Warana.
(Photo.- Suzanne Bu;ow)
Moresby focusing on welfare, course selections and academic matters, and English language."
Each semester the lecturers, as part of their studies, take two sub- jects in their specialist area as well as two other professional subjects.
These subjects count as credit to- wards a Bachelor of Education at the University of Papua New Guinea.
This means the project has strong, ongoing international links.
In 1991 the group of 13 teachers
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Cancer studies queried
The use of radio isotopes could invalidate much research on cancer and other living cells.
A paper by QUT researcher Mr Trevor Forster shows that beta-radia- tion from doses as low as 32P - or radioactive phosphorous - commonly used in biochemical research induces massive apoptosis in Burkitt's lym- phoma cell line.
Because the substance is having its own effect on cells research data could be distorted. Radiation necessary to carry out the research could be inter- fering with the activity of the cell ac- tually being researched.
Mr Forster's findings are to be pub- lished in a coming issue of the UK- based International Journal of Radia- tion Biology.
A lecturer in immunohaematology in the School of Life Science, Mr Forster made his findings as part of his research into the molecular biol- ogy of apoptosis.
The phenomenon of apoptosis was first discovered in 1971 by Professor John Kerr, Professor of Pathology at the University of Queensland Medical School, and Professor Andrew Wiley of the University of Edinburgh Medi- cal School. It is the process of pro- grammed cell death.
Mr Forster has been working on the project for three years. He is using the research for his PhD. His supervisors are Professor Kerr and Dr David J Allan of the QUT Centre for Molecu- lar Biotechnology and a senior lec- turer in the School of Life Science, who did his PhD thesis on apoptosis, particularly in testicular tissue. He is a recognised world expert in the field.
"The word apoptosis comes from the Greek meaning deciduous," said Mr Forster. "In fact it is the same proc- ess that causes the leaves to fall.
"Other examples of apoptosis are the loss of webbing between fingers in the human embryo and the process of a tadpole losing its tail to become a frog."
He described apoptosis as a non- inflammatory response as opposed to a necrotic response. This involves
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Vice-Chancellor's comment
Higher TE scores required for QUT
Students applying for QUT entry in 1992 can expect minimum TE score requirements to increase. It will simply be more competitive - there will be more students seeking university education in Queensland and very limited growth in the number of QUT's commencing places for 1992.
Of SO 000 students applying for university places in Queensland for 1991, 30 percent listed QUT as their first preference, making us the most popular university in Queensland. QUT had 15 600 first prefer- ence applicants for 6000 available places.
Overall unmet demand for university places by eligible applicants in the state has been estimated at 4000, a situation that is being addressed by the Commonwealth.
The recent federal budget provided for up to 600 additional places
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industry 40 percent. To gain a share of these places, indi- vidual universities will need to line up industry backers.
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Promotion scheme shows need for teaching portfolio
Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson says QUT's annual promo- tion scheme 1991 results highlight the need for academic staff to main- tain a teaching portfolio.
Of staff applying for promotion to senior lecturer, associate professor or professor, 17 were successful.
Out of 70 applicants , 11 won pro- motion to senior lecturer and six were promoted to associ-
the criteria.
Guidelines for applicants are avail- able from Mr Mark Nugent of the Per- sonnel Department.
Appointments to higher grades are made on the recommendation of the personal appointments committee on the basis of personal application against specified criteria.
Professor/associate professor ap-
ous ratings for teaching performance and leadership.
Of six successful candidates for as- sociate professorship, two scored dis- tinguished ratings for teaching per- formance and leadership.
The requirements for promotion to senior lecturer were two ratings of sat- isfactory plus two of meritorious, with at least one meritorious in either aca-
demic leadership ate professor. No
candidates were promoted to profes- sor.
Professor Gibson described the I 7 successful candi- dates as "A l" but added that QUT's publication rate still was low.
' My only concern is that the associate professor/professor committee found it
difficult to differentiate at the distinguished level in the category of teaching performance and leadership.'
or professional leadership, and at least one meritori- ous in either re- search and scholar- ship, und teaching performance or leadership.
For promotion to associate profes-
"Overall, l believe that the scheme worked well. My only concern is that the associate professor/professor com- mittee found it difficult to differenti- ate at the distinguished level in the category of teaching performance and leadership.
"We desperately need a teaching portfolio," he said.
The annual scheme, called the Personal Appointment Program, is designed to give staff the opportunity to apply for promotion based on their personal merit and level of achievment.
Professor Gibson used the analogy of a footrace, stressing that it was not a case of promotion being won by, say, the first three across the line. It was available to anyone who could complete the race within a specified time.
The promotions were not limited by resources but were available to all eligible staff who could meet
pointments are made by Council. Sen- ior lecturers are appointed by the Vice- Chancellor.
Professor Gibson chaired the senior lecturer committee. The associate pro- fessor/professor committee was chaired by the Chancellor Mr Vic Pullar.
The formula for success is based on an applicant's score at three levels of achievement in four specified areas.
The levels of achievement are:
• distinguished
• meritorious
• satisfactory
The specified areas are:
• academic leadership
• professional leadership
• research and scholarship
• teaching performance and leadership.
Professor Gibson said it was an important statistic that of the I I suc- cessful candidates for promotion to senior lecturer, five scored meritori-
sor, candidates needed to score one satisfactory, two meritorious and one distinguished, with the distinguished grading in ei- ther research and scholarship, or teach- ing performance and leadership.
Promoted to senior lecturer: Mr K Gilbert, Health; Dr F Bullen, Built Environment and Engineering; Mr B Hannigan, Built Environment and En- gineering; Mr P Sutcliffe, Business;
Dr E Dawson, Science; Ms N McCrae, Education; Dr D Thambiratnam, Built Environment and Engineering; Dr Carla Patterson, Health; Dr C Catherwood, Education; Dr R Ballantyne, Education; Dr B Limer- ick, Education.
Promoted to associate professor:
Dr D Atchison, Health; Mr G Holden, Built Environment and Engineering;
Dr H MacGillvray, Science; Dr P Neilson, Business; Dr R Troutbeck, Built Environment and Engineering;
DrS Wright, Education.
PNG seminars highly successful
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college lecturers are studying at QUT. This is almost double the size of the 1990 group.
This has resulted in a higher PNG profile at QUT this year with the lecturers participating in a wide range of sporting and cultural ac- tivities.
The lecturers are studying in such areas as mathematics, social science, health and physical education, Ian-
guage, library studies and agricul- ture. In addition, they attend a weekly tutorial/seminar designed to help them apply their coursework to the PNG context.
Dr Burke explained that five QUT staff members comprise the man- agement group for the project. In addition to these, other QUT staff and some specialist personnel from other institutions are involved in the design and implementation of project activities, including regular Page 2 INSIDE OUT, 17 September 1991
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instruction at QUT and inservice workshops in Papua New Guinea.
Four of the five members of the management group are members of the Faculty of Education. They are:
Dr Burke (Project Director), Asso- ciate Professor Elliott (QUT Coursework Coordinator), Mr Wilkinson (lnservice coordinator) and' Dr Keith Lucas (Executive Of- ficer). The fifth member, from the Faculty of Health, is Associate Pro- fessor Don Stewart.
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From now on Student Say will concentrate on one faculty each issue, posing to students questions of relevance to the particular discipline. For this issue Inside QUT asked students from the Engineering and Built Environment Fac- ulty, as the future planners, designers and developers of the city, what they saw as the major issues facing Brisbane.
Victor Paramonov (right), Town Planning.
"I think we should decentralise and have more sattelite communities in the Brisbane region.
"Another problem we face is the way city development has suceeded in shutting the river off from the people.
"I believe the river bank should be uncluttered on both sides.
"Although the South Bank models look great, I question whether the real thing will match up."
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Craig Courtney (right), Town Plan- ning.
"I see traffic being the biggest issue
that Brisbane town planners have to face now and in the future.
"The more we improve the roads, the more traffic they can carry so we just get more congestion.
"It's just a dog chasing its tail.
"Eventually we'll reach a plateau when it will be too much for our road system to handle."
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Kate Aitchison (left), Interior De- sign.
"The major issue is the urban sprawl and redeveloping the central city ar- eas. We've built out too much. We should be more interested in high den- sity inner city living. There's definitely room for government to get some new and innovative ideas instead of throw- ing up things without any overall plan.
Its something Whittam got into about 15 years ago in Sydney."
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Sonda Hanney (left), Interior Design.
"I think we should all stop driving cars. From an environmental point of view as well as a traffic congestion and design perspective.
"Otherwise we'll end up like Los Angeles.
"If we subscribe to the whole idea of inner city living.
"We'd be able to walk to work or at least be assured a quick journey on the public transport system."
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Puppets to bring good food advice
A survey of pre-school children by QUT masters student Ms Julie Appleton highlights the importance of teaching children good eating habits.
The survey covered 500 Brisbane pre-schoolers in 15 stat~ and private schools.
Ms Appleton based her research on information gained through a questionnaire. Parents were asked about the foods their children ate.
At the survey pre-schools she car- ried out a series of nutrition educa- tion sessions involving puppet shows, stories and food activities to rein- force the health food message.
A control group of 15 pre-schools also was included. It contributed to survey material but was not included in the educational activities.
The study was sponsored by the Queensland Dairy Industry Author- ity.
Ms Appleton said the survey showed that children at community run pre-schools were eating less sweet biscuits and muesli bars, and drinking less cordial, than children at state pre-schools. This could be explained by the fact that the com- munity pre-schools had more strict policies regarding food brought by children and were able to enforce those policies.
She said despite the healthy im- age of muesli bars they really were in the category of sweet biscuits.
"They offer about the same amount of energy as a chocolate bar," she explained.
Pre-school children surveyed were able to differentiate between healthy and non-healthy foods after receiving nutrition education.
"For the test I took along a large Teddy and held up picture cards of
Ms Julie Appleton with one of her puppets. (Photo: Suzanne Burow) foods with good nutritional value
and others of junk foods," Ms Appleton said.
"To avoid answers which could be personal preferences I asked chil- dren which foods Teddy should eat to make him healthy.
"Again, after these sessions, a sig- nificantly greater number recog- nised foods with good nutritional value."
In the survey period no signifi- cant changes in the consumption of sweet biscuits and muesli bars were noted in the control group.
Ms Appleton said she was sur- prised at how quickly the four to five-year-olds learned to recognise good food and the speed with which, in some cases, they changed their
eating habits.
"It shows that if children are given
knowledge, eventually they can change their eating habits," she said.
Further sponsorship is being sought to produce a teaching kit to promote improved nutrition in pre- school children.
The kit will comprise notes for teachers to get the "good food"
message across, picture stories featuring "good food" characters and recipe ideas for schools and parents.
"It's important to provide ways which help get the message across to children in a form hey will un- derstand," said Ms Appleton.
"It is also important to get
through to parents."
Lecturer to graduate as first PhD from info-tech faculty
Secret codes and ciphers have been used since an- cient Roman times to con- ceal sensitive information.
QUT mathematics lecturer Mr Ed Dawson has pursued this tradition through the In- formation Security Research Centre (ISRC) as part of his doctoral studies under the su- pervision of the director of the ISRC Professor Bill Caelli.
His research has focused on the design of new math- ematical algorithms for encrypting messages and the breaking of existing algo-
Mid-year graduations
Later this month QUT mathematics lec- turer Mr Ed Dawson will become the first PhD graduate from the Faculty of Information Technology.
Mr Dawson will be among almost 900 stu- dents eligible to attend graduation ceremonies on 26 September and 17 October.
The ceremonies are held for students who
completed course re- quirements mid-year.
Arts, Education, health and Information Technology faculties will be on Thursday 26 Sep- tember. Built Environ- ment and Engineering, Business, Law and Sci- ence students graduate Thursday 17 October.
Ceremonies, to be held at the Queensland Per- forming Arts complex, will begin at 5.30pm.
for facsimiles will be- come an enormous mar- ket in the near future.
"Look at the amount of information sent in faxs and it's so easy to sit in the middle and pick it all up."
He is currently inves- tigating a way to apply the analog speech scram- bler to scramble the out- put of fax machines.
He also believes his research will have appli- cation in the digital com- munication systems of the future.
rithms used in systems previ- ously thought to be secure.
One system, which cannot be named, was used by a leading Aus- tralian company.
and receiver of a message had match- ing keys.
In the final area of research Mr Dawson analysed digital encryption algorithms. After two years of analy- sis and research, the new "universal logic sequence" cipher was the result.
Unlike the analog tel- ephone system of today, the integrated services digital network (ISDN) will demand different security approaches.
Mr Dawson's research can be di- vided into three related areas. In one part of his research Mr Dawson has worked with engineering PhD student Mr Bruce Goldburg and former direc- tor of the Digital Signal Processing Research Centre Dr Sridha Sridharan in analysing speech scramblers.
The collaborative effort is now part of an on-going commercial venture to release a new speech scrambler onto the Australian market.
In a second part of his study Mr Dawson conducted mathematical and statistical analysis of existing ciphers under "black box" conditions.
"This is when we don't know what the algorithm is, but we do know what the mode of encryption is," he said.
His research concentrated on "sym- metric" ciphers, where both the sender
He said it appeared to offer high security and allowed for high speed encryption rates in a simple hardware design.
A double-degree computing science and electronic engineering under- graduate currently is developing a hardware package incorporating the new cipher as part of a final-year project.
Mr Dawson says the research high- lighted the weaknesses of many exist- ing communication security devices.
"A lot has been done in the past 20 years but the actual application needs more work. People are not securing information where they should be."
Mr Dawson predicts that encryption
"It appears the scam bier and the al-
gorithm I designed looks like it will satisfy this," Mr Dawson said.
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Whale wailing masks subs' sonar signals
Detecting the "silent submarine"
is the aim of on-going research led by newly-appointed centre director Professor Boualem Boashash.
Crucial to his success is the discov- ery of a way to automatically discrimi- nate between sounds made by whales, dolphins and prawns, all of which re- semble or hide noises emitted by sub- marines.
As the new director of the Centre for Signal Processing Research, Pro- fessor Boashash will continue the re- search. It began began six years ago in conjunction with the research arm of the Australian Department of Defence.
This year the project attracted fund- ing of $34 000. Research funds are expected to continue well into the fu- ture.
Based on a series of mathematical equations, the study aims to develop an automatic computerised detection and classification facility for sonar data.
Such research has clear defence implications for a country like Aus- tralia with its immense, vulnerable coastline.
Professor Boashash says signal processing research tends to have mili- tary surveillance applications, but is also moving into biomedical fields which the QUT centre will also tackle.
He says submarine sonar detection has become a leading edge in signal processing research since the emer- gence of the "silent submarine" about 10 years ago.
"The Pentagon has identified these submarines as the single most serious threat to their national security," Pro- fessor Boashash says.
"They became a real problem for defence organisations about five years ago."
Traditionally, sonar radars have de- tected submarines by tracking sounds coming from propellers or within the actual submarine, like slamming doors.
This has been complicated by inter- ference in the "noisy" underwater world. Sound travelling through wa- ter remains clearer over a much longer distance than sound through air.
Although Australian navy special- ists are already able to clearly discrimi- nate between these cohflicting nauti- cal noises, technology does not yet penn it fast, automatic detection. Such classification is limited to human in- terpretation of data frequencies.
Professor Boashash says research efforts in recent years have been con- stantly thwarted by rapid technologi- cal developments like the silent sub- marine.
"It is a constant battle. The manu- facturers are always trying to reduce the noise they make. It is very diffi- cult to detect them because of the am- bient noise in the water."
Conventional theories of signal analysis assume that such interference is constant, well-defined and easy to predict.
Professor Boashash hopes to de- velop new theories which remove these assumptions and better represent real- ity.
Professor Boualem Boashash So far, the Australian navy has sup- plied countless audio-cassettes of un- derwater signals, including whale re- cordings, which Professor Boashash and postgraduate researchers must ana- lyse.
Techniques used to interpret data include time-frequency signal analy- sis-testing signal charactersitcs which vary in time.
In addition higher order spectral analysis establishes various relation- ships which may exist between fre- quencies.
Another continuing research project led by Professor Boashash shifts the focus from underwater targets to those in the air.
He hopes to develop new techniques to detect radar targets in simi Jar "noisy, cluttered" environments.
The three-year $120 000 project aims to assist the on-going develop- ment of the Jindalee, Australia's $500 million over-the-horizon radar defence system. The Jindalee system aims to increase Australia's self-defence reli- ance by providing a blanket cover of the country's ocean and airspace.
The study hopes to create a better system for early detection and warn- ing. Like the sonar submarine research, it aims to better discriminate between various signals.
Born in Algeria and educated in France, Professor Boashash arrived in Australia in 1983 and joined the Uni- versity of Queensland in 1984.
He took up his position at QUT ear- lier this year and has since organised the centre into two groups.
Based in the School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, the centre will include a signal theory group and a team concentrating on image processing, computer vision, and speech and real-time signal processing.
The centre is still recruiting various new post-doctoral positions. It cur- rently supervises the research of 12 PhD and four masters students.
A specialist in signal processing for more than I 0 yea'rs, Professor Boashash organised the first interna- tional signal processing conference in Australia in August 1987.
Subsequent conferences have been held in Australia. The 1992 Interna- tional Symposium on Signal Process- ing and its Applications will be held on the Gold Coast in August.
Campus quickies
Accounts Payable officer Mr Steve Cash has cashed in his 23 years with BCAE/QUT for a job as a finance officer with Ithaca TAFE. An employee of QUT and its predecessors since he was 15, his favourite word is reportedly "bloody".
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Associate Professor John Welch has traded in his Fairlane for a sporty Holden with personalised number plates and ... And the colour? A very QUT corporate blue.
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Professor Paul Wilson has a regular ABC Radio Thursday spot (fort- nightly to start) on Cathy Job's afternoon program. He'll be inter- viewed on topical criminology/sociology issues.
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INSIDE OUT, 17 September 1991Teacher education ready to meet future demand
New masters lifts in-service training
QUT will offer a new one-year Master of Education degree next year to meet a growing demand for in-service teacher education. The new degree represents a develop- ment of the present two-year mas- ters course which combines research and course work.
Next year teachers will be able to choose between a Master of Educa- tion (course work) and a Master of Education (research).
The course work option will include early childhood, language and literacy, leadership, maths, science, computer education, and ~ocial and environmen- tal studies.
The course work component previ- ously has been limited to mathematics and leadership.
Dean of Education Professor Alan Cumming says the restructuring sig- nals an exciting development within the faculty.
"We have a responsibility to the professional teachers in Queensland to become involved in their in-service development in far more areas than maths and leadership at the masters level," Professor Cumming says.
"We also have an obligation to make sure that prospective students have a properly articulated set of degrees they can move through.
"Until now it has been a two-year degree, but based on a four-year en- try.
"In other areas, if you complete a four-year degree, you do only one year for a masters before moving on to doc- toral studies."
Professor Cumming says the new masters degrees will provide a step- ping-stone to the new professional doctorate degree which will be intro- duced in 1993.
The professional doctorate, along with traditional PhDs, will be avail- able in a range of areas within the Fac- ulty of Education.
Commitment to in-service education is one of the most important guiding forces within the faculty, he says.
QUT attracts 37.8 percent of in-serv-
ice training in Queensland- the lion's share of places available in the seven state institutions offering teacher edu- cation.
The emphasis on in-service train- ing is part of a general trend to reduce pre-service places.
The in-service education focus in teaching is intended to correct the present oversupply of teachers seek- ing readmission and the supply of stu- dents currently enrolled who will be graduating in 1991 to 1993.
It is also, in part, due to the Queens- land Board of Teacher Registration's policy encouraging teachers to upgrade to four-year qualifications.
"This is not meant to be a criticism of the teachers we already have in the state education system," Professor Cumming says.
"It is a recognition that the role of
teachers is becoming more and more complex."
He says this is particularly relevant in the light of the "regionalisation" - moving decision-making out into school support systems.
"Therefore, there's more need for on-going professional development at all levels with the education system,"
he says.
The in-service Graduate Diploma of Education (Curriculum) is also set for expansion next year.
Specialisation areas of arts in early childhood, environmental education, mathematics and science will be added to the already-established areas of art education, human relationships edu- cation and music.
A Graduate Diploma of Education (Education Management) is also planned for teachers moving into school and system administration.
A number of strands will be pro- gressively set in place. The first will be early childhood in 1993.
Professor Cumming says the in- service Bachelor of Education will be offered both internally and externally next year in response to "enormous state demand".
For more information contact the
Faculty of Education on 864 3211. QUT teaching graduate Simon Green and Sara Howell at Matt Park Kindergarten. (Photo: Suzanne Burow)
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"Thank goodness!" was the way Mrs Anne Pavlenko and Mrs Jan Gerlic summed up the release of the new QUT inter- nal telephone directory.
Such gleeful sentiments were echoed around the university when 3000 copies of the long- awaited guide made a trium- phal entry into QUT offices earlier this month.
Mrs Pavlenko (right), QUT telephone network operation officer in Buildings and Grounds, and Mrs Gerlic (left), production assistant in the Pub- lications Unit, were photo- graphed earlier this month en- joying a well-earned celebra- tory drink.
ln the making since Febru- ary, the task has involved never-ending updates of con- stantly changing staff move- ments since amalgamation.
Computing Services has in- troduced its perfect companion - the electronic phonebook.
It records a weekly update all internal telephone numbers stored on the Vax computer, housed in the Gardens Point li- brary. Changes or corrections should be directed to Mrs Pavlenko on extension 1999.
Contact the Help Desk on 4725 for more information.
(Photo: Suzanne Burow)
Students enrolling for secondary teacher education at QUT will encoun- ter a restructured degree program next year.
The Bachelor of Education (Second- ary), which became a four-year de- gree last year, will include multi-cam- pus teaching with an emphasis on spe- cific subject disciplines.
QUT is the largest provider of teach- ers in Queensland.
A total of 1295 students will be en- rolled in the Bachelor of Education (Secondary).
Half of the program is taught in other faculties such as Science and Arts.
Dean of Education Professor Alan Cumming says the restructuring takes advantage of the broad range of disci- plines taught at QUT since amalga- mation.
"This ensures that students receive a proper degree based thoroughly on the disciplines in the faculties," Pro- fessor Cumming says.
"We are adamant that physics teach- ers get taught by physicists, people who are well-grounded in the disci- pline."
He stresses that the advantages out- weigh the potential inconvenience of
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multi-campus teaching. Student/staff movement will be kept to a minimum.
Students will not be required to move between campuses on the same day.
Professor Cumming says the fac- ulty hopes to introduce four-year pre- service degrees for primary and early childhood teaching by 1994.
He says this move is in line with national trends towards four-year teacher education.
"Institutions have a moral obliga- tion to work towards four-year educa- rion," Professor Cumming says.
"Without it our students are disad- vantaged in terms of moving inter- state, working overseas and seeking promotion in the future."
Professor Cumming says a system that suggests early childhood and pri- mary teachers should have less educa- tion than secondary is a "bewildering"
concept.
Primary teachers are now expected to meet an ever increasing set of de- mands -for example, teaching foreign languages.
Three-year courses, therefore, can- not adequately prepare teachers to meet these increasing demands, Pro- fessor Cumming says.
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Educator to search clues for effective Australian schools
Senior lecturer in education Dr Beryl Evans has been seconded to the Australian Council for Educa- tional Research (ACER) in Mel- bourne as part of a team seeking to identify effective Australian schools and what makes them so.
The project has been commissioned by the state and federal ministers for education. It is part of the Federal Government's Good Scho&ls Strategy announced by Education Minister Mr John Dawkins last year in the cam- paign for Australia to become a "clever country".
Dr Evans, who is also coordinator of the QUT Faculty of Education's Leadership Unit, will spend six months as senior research fellow on the $10.5 million Australia-wide project.
"There is no single recipe for what makes an effective school," she said.
"Schools are about learning but we
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must think about what is important to learn and our attitude to learning.
Above all we must be sure that all students have an equal opportunity to do their very best."
The project will be conducted in five stages. In the first stage, already com- pleted, a discussion booklet and asso- ciated video were prepared for use in school discussions.
Throughout the next few months schools in all states but Queensland will be invited to take part in discus- sions prompted by the material.
Dr Evans said Queensland decided not to participate in this stage because its Focus On Schools project completed recently by the Education Department provided adequate infor- mation.
In Stage 3 schools will be invited to provide to ACER feedback on their conclusions and questions they feel need further attention.
In Stage 4, timed for early next year, ACER will publish a major national report drawing together the discussion findings and combining them with Australian and overseas research.
In the final stage schools will be encouraged to undertake their own development programs based on their discussions and the ACER report. The bulk of the $10.5 million is being pro- vided by the Commonwealth for this stage.
The overall aim of the project was to encourage each school community to take part in the discussion to strengthen existing school develop- ment programs and help in the formu- lation of new ones.
Spaghetti is far from the most pre- ferred material for bridge building but QUT first-year engineering students have done it again.
The annual challenge is to design and build the lightest possible spaghetti bridge to safely carry a track or road- way weighing .9kg and a moving truck also of . 9kg across a 650mm wide river.
The competition this year resulted in about 100 spaghetti bridges being built. They were tested under the criti- cal eye of subject coordinator for en- gineering mechanics Dr Mahen Mahendren. The lightest bridge to withstand testing was built by Andrew Wankiewicz. It weighed only 40 grams. Two duos tied for the most aes- thetic bridge. Maree Kovacevic and
Carol Lee (pictured), and Craig Sampson and Shannon Postma.
The same students went on to win a final competition organised by the In- stitute of Engineers, Australia, as part of National Engineering Week 1 - 7 September. Dr Mahendren said the competition was a great success with worthwhile educational values.
(Photo: Suzanne Burow)
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painful swelling and inflammation which could lead to more severe complications.
"A lymphoma subjected to irradia- tion will go away within 24 hours with- out pain," said Mr Forster.
"The implication for cancer treat- ment of our research is that if we can find what triggers apoptosis we can treat the cancer without causing much pain.
"We are looking for the means of activating apoptosis selectively in tu- mour cells. We have succeeded with tumour cells in vitro by radioactivity, heat and some drugs. Now we have to find the mechanism by which the proc- ess works so we can target it more specifically."
Mr Forster said his paper high- lighted the effect on cells of even a small amount of radioactivity.
"Even a very, very small amount can cause cells to die," he said. "The fact that the cells are dying as a result of the research process means that we may not be able to place much reli- ance on the results of the experiments.
"Thus, a lot of research where ra- dioactivity is used could be invalid."
Apart from cancer research this also applied to biomedical research looking at enzyme function within liv- ing cells.
The major implication of Mr Forster's research findings is that the very basis of much research may be flawed. Future research would have to take into account the effect of his findings.
News in brief
QUT was highly commended for its Women in Engineering initiative during National Engineering Week earlier this month.
The Institution of Engineers Australia announced the prize as part of the Na- tional Women in Engineering Commit- tee's 1991 Engineering 2000 A wards.
QUT's award was in the "education access and course" category.
Women in Engineering is an initia- tive of the New Opportunities in Terti- ary Education (NOTE) program coordi- nated by Ms Wendy Mathieson.
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Award winning children's author Caroline MacDonald will deliver the annual lecture in children's literature at 4.30pm on Friday 4 October in Room L101 at Kelvin Grove campus.
Her book Speaking to Miranda was shortlisted for this year's Australian Children's Book Council awards. Her previous books have earned high com- mendation in Australia and New Zea- land.
The Lake at the End of the World was an honour book for the Children's Book Council Award (1989) and won the Victorian Premier's Award.
Visitors was New Zealand Chil- dren's Book of the Year in 1985.
Her first novel Elephant Rock won the 1982 Esther Glen Memorial Award. Her most recent book Hostili- ties already has created much inter- est. Her lecture topic is The Absolute Truth.
The annual lecture, organised through the School of Language and Literacy Education, is open to the public. There is no charge. Those wish- ing to attend contact Ms Jan Morcom on 864 3242.
Immediately following the lecture the laJ.InCh of On Writing for Children:
nine papers from the Annual Lectures in Children's Literature. Copies will be on sale from the Kelvin Grove cam- pus bookstore.
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A final call for registrations has been issued by the organisers of the Austral- ian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) conference.
To be held 1-3 October at the Univer- sity of Adelaide, the conference will have a "renewal and reproduction" theme.
QUT will host the 1992 ANZAAS conference at the Garden~ Point cam- pus. Dean of Science Professor Tony Webber is convening a planning com- mittee.
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New phone overcomes deafness
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A device allowing hearing im- paired prospective students to make telephone enquiries to QUT has been installed in the Kelvin Grove cam- pus admissions section.
Admissions manager Ms Joan Linde said the idea was suggested by QUT's Access Committee, chaired by senior lecturer in learn- ing and development Mr Barrie O'Connor.
The device is generally called a TTY, an established term meaning a telephone typewriter but its more correct title is the Telephone Devel- oped for the Deaf (TDD).
It is connected to a standard tel- ephone. When a hearing impaired person calls, also using a TDD, the telephone rings in a normal fashion.
When answered, the phone noise is similar to that made by a fax ma- chine.
The operator then places the re- ceiver into a special cradle of the TDD, the conversation then takes place on linked computer screens.
The caller types in the request and the QUT operator types in the re- ply. The device presently in use has a one-line screen but Mr O'Connor is arranging another one that will be linked to a printer.
"It's another incentive for hear- ing impaired people to consider studying at QUT, to show that we are sensitive to their needs," Ms Linde said.
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Coun. cil and committee news
This is a summary of action taken by the Vice-Chancellor, Council and committee activities since the 17 July Council meet- ing including the following committee meetings.
Academic Committee (2 August); Con- vocation Standing Committee (29 July);
Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee ( 17 July); Planning and Resources Committee (31 July); Research Management Commit- tee ( 16 August); Computing Planning Com- mittee (25 July); Academic Processes and Rules Committee (24 July); Student/Staff Liaison Committee (20 August); Biomedi- cal Ethics Committee (30 July); Art Col- lection Committee (30 July).
Management and organisation 1991 leadership conference QUT's 1991 leadership conference was residential at Kooralbyn from 8 to 10 Au- gust. Seventy-two faculty, school, division and department/section managers spent a few days looking at strategies to help QUT reach the teaching, research and employ- ability targets articulated in the Vice-Chan- cellor's 1996 context and issues paper.
While the conference agreed on some teaching, research and employability strat- egies, many issues will continue to be de- bated within QUT's academic and other committees.
Student/staff liaison
The Vice-Chancellor's Student/Staff Liaison Committee is considering a number of issues including QUT's relationship with the Student Guild and the possibility of a social/sporting activities coordinator for staff.
The ccommittee has recommended to the Vice-Chancellor that additional free, inter- naltelephones be installed on each campus to increase staff accessibility for students.
The committee has also recommended des- ignation and signposting of specific areas on each campus as official pick-up points for taxis.
The Vice-Chancellor is exploring these matters with the Registrar.
Finance, fabric and planning 1992 planning guidelines
The Vice-Chancellor's planning guide- lines for 1992 have been circulated to fac- ulties and divisions as the start of QUT's action planning process.
The recent Commonwealth budget will also affect plans for next year (increased capital expenditure and enrolment growth) although nothing specific will be known until after the Commonwealth profile visit in September.
According to the Minister for Higher Education and Employment Services Mr Peter Baldwin an extra $76million next year and $42million in 1993 will be spent to alleviate overcrowding and over- enrolments in institutions nationally.
For 1992, $53 million has been budg- eted for new buildings and refurbishment,
$9million for assistance with enrolment growth, and an additional $3.7million for the Australian Research Council.
Integrated library system
Council approved a proposal for an in- tegrated library system for QUT. The SEA URICA system is an upgrade of the library system in use at the Northern campuses.
Subcommittee on capital works Planning and Resources Committee es- tablished a subcommittee to oversee the capital works program, appointment of con- sultants, evaluation of tenders and review of capital infrastructure.
Members of the subcommittee are the Chairperson of Planning and Resources Committee, the Vice-Chancellor, the Fi- nance and Facilities Director, the Univer- sity Architect, and QUT Chancellor.
The subcommittee's first task is to de- velop criteria for appointment of consult- ants which will be recommended to Coun- cil through Planning and Resources Com- mittee.
B Block at Kelvin Grove
The Vice-Chancellor appointed John Simpson as the architect for the B Block replacement at Kelvin Grove on recommen- dation from Planning and Resources Com- mittee. The committee has approved con- ceptual designs for the B Block redevelop- ment.
Architectural award
Architects John Simpson Associates were awarded the FDG Stanley Award at the Queensland Chapter Architectural Awards recently for the Carseldine Re- source Centre/Expressive Arts building.
The award is made for the best public build- ing.
Buildings and facilities planning Planning and Resources Committee ac- cepted a recommendation from its Com- puting Planning Committee that in future the Director of Computing Services would be consulted on information security and data communications design as part of the planning process for infrastructure and capi- tal works.
Personnel
Senior staff appointments
The Chair in Quality Professor Ian Saunders starts in September. The Head of School of Optometry Professor Leo Carney will start in January next year, along with the Associate Dean of Law Professor Malcolm Cope (who has already joined QUT and is on PDP) and the Head of School of Cultural and Policy Studies Professor Noeline Kyle.
Positions still in progress include heads of schools of Marketing Advertising and Public Relations, Economics and Public Policy, Academy of the Arts, Humanities, Social Science and Human Movement Stud- ies. The position of Director of the Key Centre in Strategic Management is also still in the process of being filled.
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INSIDE OUT, 17 September 1991The position of Head of School of Life Science is to be readvertised.
Adjunct professor - Faculty of Arts Council agreed to invite Professor Gary Stollak of the Michigan State University to serve as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts for semester 2 1992.
Academic matters
Academic rules and policies Academic Committee adopted policies/
procedures on undergraduate admission in the following areas
• eligibility for enrolment as an external student
• transfers between courses, majors, cam- puses and change of attendance mode
• requirement of proof of English profi- ciency from applicants who completed prior studies in another language
• fee-paying overseas students who achieve permanent residency ,Juring their course
• admission routes
• calculation of notional TE scores for applicants with prior tertiary study.
Copies of the new policies are available from the Secretariat.
Academic Committee also set up an Admission Appeals Committee, reporting to Academic Committee, to hear and deter- mine appeals submitted by applicants who have been refused admission to a QUT course or readmission following exclusion, and to draw attention to any apparent prob- lems arising from administration of admis- sion policies and procedures.
Course development
Academic Committee accredited the Master of Built Environment (Urban De- sign) for five years to 31 December 1996, subject to some minor amendments to the accreditation submission. The master de- gree course will incorporate a new Gradu- ate Diploma in Urban Design.
The committee accredited the Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) in Mathemat- ics course for five years to 31 December 1996. A proposal from the Arts Academic Board to change the title of the Bachelor of Social Science to Bachelor of Social Sci- ence (Human Services) was approved.
Academic awards
Academic Committee awarded Mr Jie Fang and Mr YanNi a Master of Engineer- ing by Thesis.
Academic calendar 1992-1994 Academic Committee approved aca- demic calendars for 1992, 1993 and 1994 except for the dates for the second semes- ter break for 1992. In response to a sugges- tion that the proposed dates for this break be changed to match the dates of the A VCC common week, the committee agreed that deans advise the Registrar of whether such a change would present difficulties. Fol- lowing advice from the deans, it has been agreed that the second break remain as originally proposed.
Business lecturer receives honours for health service
Faculty of Business School of Management lecturer Mr Paul Hindson has been honoured by the International Union for Health Edu- cation (IUHE).
A recent IUHE conference held in Helsinki, Finland, awarded Mr Hindson the Jaques Parisot medal for his services to health education. He also was awarded a commemorative certificate for his contribution to the development of the IUHE.
Mr Hindson was unable to attend the conference. The medal and certifi- cate were received on his behalf by Dr Colin Yarham, of Sydney.
The medal was awarded to three people this year to mark the 40th anni- versary of IUHE. The other recipients were Professor Larry Green, a recog- nised leader in international public health education, and Professor Maria Modolo, of the University of Perugia, Italy.
He said he had been working inter- nationally in public health education for some years. In 1975 he became a member of the executive committee of the IUHE, resigning only last year.
"I suppose I've set up a lot of struc- tures for them. I set up a regional bu- reau in the northern part of the west- ern Pacific in Seoul, Republic of Ko- rea," Mr Hindson said.
The bureau included Taiwan, Japan and China. He said he believed it was the first organisation that Taiwan and mainland China both had belonged to.
In Bangalore, India, he set up an- other regional bureau to serve south- east Asia. He also was world presi- dent of the IUHE, then became treas- urer.
Mr Hindson said he had travelled extensively working for the IUHE, mostly paying his own expenses. His
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involvement included representing the IUHE at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
QUT had generally supported his involvement in these activities, giving him special leave from time-to-time, he said.
Jaques Pari sot ( 1882-1967) was a French pioneer in the field of public health education. Already a professor at the age of 30, he also was director of a hospital specialising in the treat- ment of tuberculosis patients.
During World War I, he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour (officer class). His war expe- riences determined the evolution of his subsequent career.
Pari sot put into practice the concept that hygiene is not a science of con- templation but a science of action. In 1946, in New York, he signed in the name of France the constitution of the World Health Organisation.
Ambassador visits
Australia's Ambassador to Myanmar (Burma) visited QUT re- cently for discussions with Dr John A askov in the Department of Life Sci- ence.
In his role as Ambassador, Mr Allen has shown particular interest in pro- moting stronger links between Aus- tralian and Myanmar tertiary institu- tions, and in building on existing links such as those established by Dr A askov with the Department of Medical Re- search in Yangon (Rangoon).
During the past I 0 years Dr Aaskov has regularly visited Myanmar. Fre- quently within the past five years he has acted as a consultant for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Myanmar.
Mr Allen said he was particularly
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TILP may be of particular signifi- cance as Myanmar universities seek to re-establish their teaching programs after several years closure following political turmoil.
Of interest to recent and potential science graduates considering career paths - one of the diplomatic staff in the Australian Embassy in Yangon is a scientist who joined the Department of Foreign Affairs after working in Australia and the Pacific as a micro- biologist.
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Australian Amabassador to Myanmar, Mr Geoff Allen, discussing aspects of Dr Aaskov's dengue research program.
