A report on the Graduate School (February 1993)

Abstract

The Council of the ANU resolved in May 1988 to establish a Graduate School. On 11 May 1990 I was appointed as the first Dean of the Graduate School, for a period of 3 years in the first instance. Although from time to time I have talked about the Graduate School to various groups within the University, this is the first general report. It describes the processes leading to the establishment of the Graduate School, reports on the School's development and current operation, including centrally based initiatives and the Graduate Program system, and briefly considers some future possibilities for graduate education at the ANU. Many parts of this report are inevitably concerned with my own involvement and perspectives. Such parts are written in the first person; to do otherwise would be highly artificial. Unless indicated otherwise, all ANU statistics are extracted from official publications.