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1. Workload Management – Dept Maths & Stats

A. Weekly Contact Hour Model (before 2011)

Standard load: 15 hrs

Allowance for Res/Adm and Other activities

The load may be reduced by other activities (allowance)

- PhD/Res MSc supervision : 1.5 hour

- National Research Grant: up to 2 hrs per grant

- Research Publication: up to 2 hrs per Int Jouranl paper

- Management of large unit: 0.5-1.5 hour- UG Course coordinator: 4 hours- PG Course coordinator: 2 hours

and etc …

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1. Workload Management – Dept Maths & Stats

B. Annual Workload Model (from 2011)

Standard annual full time workload: 1725 hrs

Block hours: 350 hours for every full time staff; Teaching: 1hr lecture = 3 hrs; 1hr Tut=1.5 hr, …; Research: 0%, 20% (345hrs), 30%, 40%, …; PhD/Res MSc: 90 hrs per year; Administration: 10% for PG coordinator & 20% for UG ; etc …

Workload allocation

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2. Government Support to Univ Research (2011)

Total: $1.51 billion (1510 million) for Res & Res Training

Shared by 41 Institutes: 0.4m to 181m;

Curtin: 34 million; Uni of Wollongong: 28m; Uni of Tech Sydney: 22m; Uni of South Aust: 28m; Qld Uni of Tech 37m.

Factors: Res Student total load, Res Student total completion, Research publication, Research incomes

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3. Research Management (R&D Office)

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4. Research Performance Measure (RPI)

Collect research data: publications details – Script database

Measure staff research performance by RPI Award Res Excellence using RBG from Gov

RPI Points:

Aim

150 points per $10k ARC Discovery Proj grant; 100-150 points for refereed journal papers; 50 for refereed conf

paper 400 points for per PhD student completion;

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5. ERA & Aust University Res Rankings

Mainly based on Research Publications; Also consider other factors: grants, etc…

Ranking Parameters

3-5: at and above world (international) standard; 1-2: below world (international) standard;

Ranking Classification

Curtin’s ranking 20 discipline areas : at and above world (international) standard; Applied maths is at world standard Numerical & computational maths is one of the 5 univ at/above world standard

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6. QS University Rankings by Subject (2011)

Score is based on academic, employer, citations 10 from Aust; Curtin is in the band of 151-200.

How to Improve Ranking ?

Top 200 Universities in Mathematics

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7. Credit System, Online Enrolment and Blackboard

Credit System

Learning Management System (Blackboard)

Student online enrolment

- core units, optional units, elective units

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