GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
STAFF MEETING
Friday 19 March 2010
MINUTES
Attendees
Helen Wildy (Chair)
David Andrich
Zan Blair
Anne Chapman
Robert Faulkner
Jenny Foo
Di Gardiner
Ken Glasgow
Sarah Hopkins
Helen House
Stephen Houghton
Stephen Humphry
Corrie Staats (Student Representative)
Ida Marais
Joshua McGrane
Tom O’Donoghue
Marnie O'Neill
Mark Pegrum
Myra Taylor
The Chair welcomed:
 Joshua McGrane – Postdoctoral staff member working with David Andrich.
1)
Apologies
Lesley Vidovich, Elaine Sharplin, Val Faulkner, Grace Oakley, Janet Edwards, Grady Venville.
2)
Confirmation of previous minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 19 February 2010 were confirmed.
3)
Committee Chair Reports
3.1.
Research Committee
 Tom O’Donoghue presented the report for the Research Committee.
 A welcome for new Postgraduate students was held on Thursday 11 March at 5pm. The event was
very successful with 12 new students present and overall 40 students and staff.
 The GSE nomination of thesis examiner form was discussed. The Dean for the Graduate Research
School recommended a change to include a ‘confirmation of no conflict of interest’ statement to
be clearly shown on the form.
 The deadline for submission of documents for a meeting is 5pm of the Friday before the meeting.
Any requests for late additions to an agenda must be directed to Lesley Vidovich in the first
instance and not Penny Vincent.
 The University wide Research Survey starts on Monday 22 March. Staff are reminded to
participate in this.
 The Fogarty Postgraduate Research Forum in being held on 7 April. Currently there are a small
number of abstracts that have been submitted. It is possible the forum will not run on 7 April.
 Simon conducted the SWOT analysis that is to be fed into the School Review.
 Student accommodation guidelines are being reviewed.
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3.2.
Teaching and Learning Committee
 Grady is currently overseas, therefore no report was given.
3.3.
Planning and Budget Committee
 Workload formula has been updated. Marina has transcribed all information on the ‘old’
workload files that staff submitted onto the ‘new’ file.
 This will be sent to staff for a final check.
3.4.
International Committee
 The OPP was discussed and suggestions provided.
 Hong Kong
o Is going well and student numbers have increased to 21.
o Marketing strategies were discussed
o Mark Pegrum has agreed to revamp the marketing powerpoint presentation.
o Schools are being sent hard copy information/marketing packages.
 Singapore
o HCI – up to 8th cohort
o Ngee Ann – 2nd cohort of Masters
o PSB – The first Professional Development workshop run by Tom O’Donoghue has been run
and was very well received and successful.
4)
Dean’s Report
4.1.
Meeting with Deans of Education and Department of Education
 Helen Wildy is having a meeting on Friday 18 March with the Deans of WA’s Universities Schools
of Education and Andrew Thompson from the Education Department.
 The purpose of the meeting is to request access to information and resources available to
practicing teachers. Also to be discussed is the availability of teachers for student placements.
 The Department’s ‘classroom first’ has been interpreted by some schools/teachers that they
cannot take student placements.
4.2.
Centre for Public School Leadership tender
 In the process of preparing this tender, the issue of space has be raised and discussed. It has been
suggested (and to a certain extent supported) to lease space in 10 Stirling Highway. The space
currently consists of 8 rooms on the first floor.
 Refurbishment would need to happen before anyone could move in as either the Centre or as GSE
staff. It is envisage that there would be one large teaching space (50 seats approximately) plus
office space and reception.
4.3.
Operating Fund
 A deficit of approximately $9k was budgeted for 2009.
 For 2009 there was an actual surplus of $358k. With the carry forwards, this is a surplus of
$1,824k. However most of these funds are already committed to various projects and grants.
 A deficit of approximately $198k has been budgeted for 2010.
4.4.
Leave Liability
 The School’s leave liability has been increasing over the last 3 years.
 For 2009 this correlated to 701 days of Annual and Long Service Leave for Academic and
Professional staff.
o LSL – Academic – 419
o AL – Academic – 177
o LSL – Professional – 82
o AL – Professional - 24
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4.5.
UWA Centenary campaign
 This is being run by Tim Portland, formally of Stamford University.
 The ‘Annual Fund 2009’ report was discussed and a few interesting graphs show that Education
are doing ok for a small school. The report can be found on line at
http://www.development.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/707066/2009_Annual_Fund_
report-web.pdf
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5)
Any Other Business
5.1.
Research Talk
This month the talk is by David Andrich and Tom O’Donoghue and is titled “Preparing for Study
Leave” and will follow this meeting. Morning tea has been provided by David Andrich and Ida Marias.
5.2.
Future Meetings
Staff Meetings will be held in the Conference Room at 9.30am on the third Friday on the month.
o Friday 21 May 2010
o Friday 18 June 2010
o Friday 16 July 2010
o Friday 20 August 2010
o Friday 17 September 2010
o Friday 15 October 2010
o Friday 19 November 2010
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