annual report/2006 - University of Melbourne

At its inception, and for many years
afterward, the University received
grants from the Victorian Government
and income from fees and benefactions.
Since the Second World War the
Australian Government has provided
financial support for teaching and
research activities.
In the last decade of the 20th century
the structure of the University
underwent profound change. An
amalgamation between the University
and the adjacent Melbourne College of
Advanced Education came into effect
in 1989. This resulted in a merger
between the College and the
University’s Faculty of Education.
The Hawthorn Institute of Education,
affiliated with the University in 1991, is
now fully amalgamated and integrated
with the Faculty of Education.
Also in 1991, the Victorian College of
the Arts affiliated with the University
and its higher education programs
were then offered through the School
of the Victorian College of the Arts.
The College remained largely an
autonomous institution with its own
Act of Parliament, Council and Director
(Chief Executive), although its students
enrolled in courses approved by the
University’s Academic Board and
received degrees of the University.
Late in 2005, the University and the
VCA signed Heads of Agreement under
which the VCA became a Faculty of the
University from 1 January 2007.
The Victorian College of Agriculture and
Horticulture affiliated with the University
in 1992, becoming a part of the new
Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and
Horticulture in 1995. The Faculty was
reconstituted as the Institute of Land
and Food Resources in July 1997 and
then as the Faculty of Land and Food
Resources at the end of 2004. Over the
course of 2005, the University finalised
arrangements to relinquish the teaching
of Vocational Education and Training
courses previously offered through the
Institute and Faculty to specialist TAFE
providers, leaving the University Faculty
free to concentrate on higher education
teaching and research.
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The University of Melbourne Annual Report 2006
Faculties
The University has 11 faculties and a School of Graduate Studies
which has faculty status.
Faculty Teaching Load – 2006 estimates
LOAD
(EFTSL)
%
Female
Architecture, Building and Planning 1,519 49.8%
Arts 6,097 66.4%
Economics and Commerce 5,076 50.1%
Education 2,705 77.3%
Engineering 2,935 22.2%
Land and Food Resources 951 50.7%
Law 2,031 52.6%
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences 5,912 64.3%
Music 482 65.5%
Science 3,850 47.8%
Veterinary Science 456 77.3%
School of Enterprise 142 24.5%
Other 271 59.8%
Affiliated teaching institutions
Melbourne Business School 494 29.8%
Victorian College of the Arts 935 56.2%
Total 33,856 56.0%
Other includes School of Graduate Studies and unallocated load.
Total includes load at 31 October 2006 and includes Study Abroad
student load.
In 1998 the University established a
private arm, Melbourne University
Private Ltd, which offered its first
courses in 1999. During 2001 Melbourne
Enterprises International Limited
became a subsidiary of Melbourne
University Private Ltd. As from July
2003 Melbourne University Private Ltd
became a self-accrediting institution
but the University’s Academic Board
continued to review courses accredited
by Melbourne University Private Ltd
on a periodic basis to ensure that they
remained of a quality comparable to
award courses at the same level at the
University of Melbourne. On 6 June
2005 the academic operations of the
two bodies were merged, with students
of Melbourne University Private
becoming students of the University of
Melbourne from that date. Melbourne
University Private Limited, while
continuing as a subsidiary company of
the University of Melbourne, has been
renamed UMEE Ltd and has ceased to
operate as a university.
Over the past two decades public
funding per student has fallen steadily
and the University of Melbourne, like
most other Australian universities, is
increasingly reliant on student fees
and other earned income to finance
its operations.