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ResearchThe University of Western Australia is one of Australia’s leading researchintensiveuniversities and is the premier research institution in WesternAustralia. In 2005 the University received over $102 million of external researchincome, expended over $165 million on research, and graduated over 265 higher degreeby research students, mostly PhDs.The University’s research and research training objectives are defined in its Researchand Research Training Management Report at http://intranet.uwa.edu.au/planning/planning/__data/page/37856/UWA_RRTMR_2005.pdf. Research is expected to beconducted by all teaching and research staff across the range of disciplines, althoughthe University also encourages the development of research concentrations in areas ofparticular strength and opportunity. Notably these areas include: geomechanics andoffshore engineering; earth sciences, particularly tectonics; materials science; waterresearch; agricultural and natural system management, including dryland salinity;plant energy biology; classics and ancient history; anthropology, archaeology andlinguistics; child health; asthma and allergy research; epidemiology and neurobiology;telecommunications; and atomic molecular and surface physics.The University recognises the need to fully cost its research activities, particularly asfunding from industry and non-government sources increases. The University hasdeveloped a detailed pricing policy for research contracts and consultancies which isavailable at http://www.research.uwa.edu.au/page/77585.15
Teaching and LearningIn 2005 UWA focused particularly on new measures designed to improveteaching through staff development and on improving the ways in which thequality of learning can be measured.In 2005 the Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme [commended by theAustralian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA)] was significantly expanded anda complementary scheme for postgraduate students, Introduction to UniversityTeaching, was introduced. In 2006 these schemes will be further expanded so thatall postgraduate teachers have access to high quality staff development for teaching.In addition, a new Teaching Fellowship Scheme, open to all academic staff, wasintroduced in 2005.Using international benchmarking as a tool to measure teaching and learning,excellence was further developed with the implementation in 2005 of the NationalSurvey of Student Engagement which gathers data about staff and student practices.This will allow UWA to work closely with the University of New South Wales andQueen’s University, Canada, to compare data and develop appropriate improvementstrategies. It also provides benchmarking possibilities with hundreds of NorthAmerican universities.The University’s strong performance on a number of measures of quality of teachingand learning was confirmed when it was one of 14 universities to receive extrafunding from the Commonwealth’s Learning and Teaching Performance Fund in2006.The University’s pricing policy for its educational programmes is consistent withthe Commonwealth Government’s policies on Australian domestic undergraduateand postgraduate coursework students and international fee-paying students.Details of the University’s prices are available both on the University web site and theCommonwealth web site at http://www.goingtouni.gov.au/.16
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