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New University PlacesBeginning in 2002 there will be 2670 new fully funded places at Australia’s universities each year. The allocation of the new places was announced on Friday 24 August by Dr Kemp, the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs. 2000 of the new places will be used for teaching and learning in priority areas, including information and communications technology, photonics, engineering, mathematics teacher education, nanotechnology and optoelectronics. The places will assist in addressing unmet student demand and increase graduates in areas of known skills shortage. The 2000 new places were announced as part of the Innovation Action Plan, Backing Australia’s Ability, and will mean some $151 million in extra funding to the sector over five years. For the first time, new places have been allocated on a competitive basis, with universities asked to apply for places on the basis of innovative approaches to teaching and learning designed to meet the needs of industry and to provide students with useable skills upon graduation. Bids for the new places were received from most universities and covered more than 130 individual courses, or packages of courses. The other 670 places have been allocated to regional universities and campuses in areas of high demographic growth. These places were announced in this year’s Budget and will add some $34.8 million in funding to regional higher education over the next four years. There have been 20 fully funded places with standard pipeline provided for the Geraldton region. There will be a call for proposals from universities to supply these places. The Minister’s press release and a complete list of new places, by university and degree course, can be obtained from the Minister’s web site. Media release www.dest.gov.au/ministers/kemp/august01/k200_240801.htm List of new places www.dest.gov.au/ministers/kemp/august01/k200_240801b.htm Funding for Major National Research FacilitiesUniversities and researchers based in the higher education system will be major beneficiaries of the projects to be funded from the Commonwealth’s $155 million Major National Research Facilities (MNRF) Program. The MNRF Program is part of the $2.9 billion Backing Australia’s Ability policy to boost support for research and innovation in Australia. The 15 successful projects, announced on 21 August 2001 by Senator Nick Minchin, Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, are: The Bandwidth Foundry – $9.5 million to establish a facility for the production of Photonic Integrated Circuits to be based at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney; The National Networked Tele-Test Facility for Integrated Systems – $4.75 million for a facility to allow researchers to test and prototype very large scale integrated circuits and other ‘systems on a chip’ devices prior to manufacturing. The facility will be based at Edith Cowan University, with testing nodes at the University of Western Australia, Griffith University, Macquarie University, Victoria University and the University of Adelaide; Australian Proteome Analysis Facility – $16.25 million to upgrade and expand the existing proteomics (a process for separating, identifying and classifying proteins) facility at Macquarie University. The new facility will include the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales and a new node in Adelaide. Gemini Observatory and Square Kilometre Array project – $23.5 million to assist in attracting to Australia part of the multi-billion dollar global business in astronomical equipment and secure Australia a significant role in the scientific exploration of the universe. The principle proponents for the projects are the CSIRO and Australia Telescope National Facility. International Livestock Resources and Information Centre – $4.5 million for a high speed communications centre and resource knowledge database at the University of New England to assist Australia’s livestock industries. Australian Synchroton Research Program – $14.8 million to provide access for Australian synchroton users to facilities in Japan and the United States for research in fields such as biotechnology, advanced materials and nanotechnology. Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation (NANO) – $11.5 million for a network of new and existing instrumentation in microscopy and microanalysis. NANO is a multi-node facility with a head office in Sydney and nodes at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland , the University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne. Australian Phenomics Facility – $11.5 million for a new facility at the Australian National University to enable researchers to identify the mammalian phenome. Australian Genome Research Facility – $14 million to expand its existing genetic research facilities in Melbourne and Brisbane and to establish a new node at the University of Adelaide. National Wine Industry Research Cluster – $4.5 million for a multi-node facility to identify and track wine quality features National Neuroscience Facility (NNF) – $18 million to establish a new centre to be co-located at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACESS) – $4.8 million to develop integrated software for simulations and visualisation of earth systems. ACESS will be located at the University of Queensland with nodes in Melbourne and Perth. National Centre for Advanced Cell Engineering – $5.5 million for a facility at Monash University for research in areas such as bioengineering cells, tissue engineered products and recombinant proteins. Arafura–Timor Research Facility – $3.25 million for a facility, to be based in Darwin, to research management and conservation of the marine and coastal eco-systems of the Arafura and Timor Seas. The principle proponent of the facility is the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Australian Maritime Hydrodynamic Research Centre – $4.5 million for a centre for experimental and theoretical hydrodynamic research at the Australian Maritime College in Launceston. www.ausindustry.gov.au/documents/dir35/doc523635.html New Anglo-Australian Telescope Board MemberProfessor Lawrence Cram has been appointed to the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board until 30 June 2004. He joins Professor Ken Freeman and Professor Ronald Ekers as the current Australian members. The Anglo-Australian Telescope Board (AATB) is an independent joint Australian-UK authority established under the Anglo-Australian Agreement Act 1970 to oversee the operations of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO). The Board has six members in total, with three appointed by each government. Professor Cram was appointed as the Australian Research Council Programme Manager for the Physical and Earth Sciences in February 2001. He was until recently Chair of the Academic Board at the University of Sydney. Professor Cram is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Royal Astronomical Society, the American Astronomical Society, the International Astronomical Union and the Astronomical Society of Australia. He previously served on the AATB from 1995 to 1997. The AAO provides world-class optical and infrared observing facilities for British and Australian astronomers to ensure the best possible science. It also takes a leading role in the formulation of long-term plans and strategies for astronomy in both countries and, through its research and development of new instrumentation, to the advance of astronomy internationally. The Board’s facilities consist of the 3.9 metre Anglo-Australian
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