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Five teachers who will "never be the same"

Five science teachers from NSW high schools will, in their • own words, "never be the same" after spending two months as guests of the School of Chemistry within the University.

The teachers, from Cessnock, Pennant Hills, Randwick, • North Sydney and Manly, have been participating in an exper-

iment aimed at giving them a chance to work on specific teach-ing problems away from the day-to-day pressures of the high

• school enviroment. Each of the teachers has had one member of the Chemistry

staff attached to her (or him) to act as "guide, philosopher and • friend", and the results have been highly successful from the

point of view of both the teachers and the University staff. According to Professor Hans Freeman, Professor of In-

organic Chemistry, the experiment may turn out to be an • important innovation in Chemistry teaching.

"The experiment grew out of a feeling in the School of Chemisty that we should do something positive to assist the

• teaching of Chemistry in the high schools," said Professor Freeman.

"The University of New South Wales has been running • "workshops" of short duration for some years, and Macquarie

University has a Master's degree program for teachers. We

decided to try to find a new way of assisting Chemistry teachers.

"Before we started this present program we thought - and now we know for sure - that there are areas of Chemistry which high school teachers find difficult to teach.

"It turns out that the University's expertise can be put to good use in suggesting ways of overcoming such teaching difficulties. The best people to identify the problem areas are the teachers themselves, and the teachers are also the best people to create material which will assist other teachers," said Professor Freeman.

After discussions between the School of Chemistry and the NSW Department of Education five high school teachers were selected to work in doss- collaboration with five Chemistry staff members during Lent term. Each teacher worked on a project to overcome a specific teaching difficulty. The teachers were also invited to participate in lecture courses, seminars and laboratory classes which interested them.

The official name given to the program by the NSW Education Department is "The High School Science Teachers Internship Program". over page

SEMINAR '78: "EMERGING FROM PARADISE"

Saturday, June 10 should be marked now in your appointments book. The Standing Committee's Seminar '78 will be held in the Stephen Roberts Theatre on the afternoon of Saturday June 10, beginning at 1.30 pm. The topic' for discussion is "Emerging From Paradise (Our Pacific Island Neighbours)". Speakers will be: The Chancellor, Sir Hermann Black; The Editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr Stewart Inder; Defence reporter Major Peter Young; and the Secretary of the South Pacific Commission, Rev. E. Macu Salato. A fascinating opportunity to explore the styles and problems of the island peoples of the South Pacific.

Applications for registration for this outstanding seminar may be made to Mr J.J. Callaghan, Registrar's Office, University of Sydney, NSW 2006. Registration fee is unchanged at $5.00 per head ($2.00 for students and pensioners). Afternoon tea will be served.

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The "interns" were selected after open competition among high school teachers from public and private schools. Teachers were asked to identify an area which was difficult to teach, and to sug-gest some material they would like to develop to overcome this difficulty if they had the chance.

The material could be in the form of a written guide, or slides, film, or demon-stration experiments. It should require between 6 weeks and 2 months to pre-pare.

Out of 24 suggested projects, five were ultimately chosen. The teachers who submitted these projects represented country and city schools, and had a wide range of teaching experience.

The Internship program has been supported by the State Development Committee under the auspices of the In-service Training Branch of the Department of Education. The State Development Committee provided funds for full-time relief staff at the schools and living and removal expenses where necessary.There was also a maintenance grant to the Uni-versity to cover such costs as chemicals, materials and printing.

Reports prepared by the five teachers are being printed and will be made avail-able- to teachers in NSW schools. It is expected that the "interns" will be asked to speak to teacher groups and in-service training courses, to spread their exper-ience.

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a fascinating but very simple kit for chemical spot testing.

Students will be able to use the kit on excursions, or in the street or in their homes, to test for the presence of metals in different materials like shaving cream, vitamin pills, foodstuffs or car exhaust fumes.

Mrs. Roebuck, who worked in coll-aboration with Dr. Neville Gibson, said she valued the opportunity of meeting people who were vitally interested in Chemistry.

"There is a greater opportunity to learn here," she said."

"At school the teacher is the one at the top, the one who knows most about Chemistry. But here there are always people who are expert on partic-ular subjects. The University is a built-in Resource Centre, too .. the library has a lot of material which we've never even seen".

Miss Gae Bylos, of Cessnock High, is the least experienced of the teachers, having had only minimal training in Chemistry.

"With very little training in the subject, I had some rather nasty exper-iences trying to teach chemistry at school," she said.

"It has therefore been very benefic-ial to me to come in to the University. Teaching was a bit of a trial because I was so concerned with just surviving, but now I think I have some of the enthusiasm for Chemistry which the staff has here. They're mad keen here,

living and breathing the subject. I'll cert-ainly be a lot happier in the classroom".

Gae, whose "mentor and collabor-ator" in the School was Dr. Ray Pierens, worked on "The Mole" concept - a difficult part of the Chemistry syllabus dealing with molecular structure.

In contrast, Mrs. Peg Swan, Science Mistress at Pennant Hills High School, was one of the most highly experienced teachers in the group. She has attended quite a few of the School's seminars, and has particularly enjoyed the informal discussions of Chemistry with staff around the morning tea table.

"You tend to be very busy at school but here at long last I've been able to look at the whole outline of what I'm doing," she said.

Mrs. Swan, with Associate Professor Bob Hunter, wrote a new treatment of atomic forces in solids, a subject she identified as difficult to teach.

The only man in the group, Mr. Geoff Coady, of Randvick Boys' High,believes one of the main benefits of the scheme has been the opportunity to relax from teaching.

"It's given me a different approach, but a certain amount of calmness. School is at times a rather tense place and I hope I can take something of calmness back with me. The time spent here has given me some energy to go back and get a harmon-ious situation among the staff so they can think about teaching the kids rather than bickering amongst themselves."

Mr. Coady, with Dr. Jim Eckhert, worked on the chemistry of pollution, setting out various activities for students devising practical experiments which can be performed by students during excurs-ions to measure and analyse pollution in the enviroment.

Mrs. Robyn Campbell, of North Sydney Girls' High, worked on the Chemistry of living systems, relating the Organic Chemistry part of the syllabus to the Biology syllabus for the first time.

Mrs. Campbell said she now had a wider idea of what science is and what chemistry is and "where it fits into things".

"We all have a new attitude to teaching, partly brought about by the break itself. You don't have the pressure to teach every day, and you can look back and evaluate." she said.

Quite apart from the tangible benefits of the program, a number of personal friendships have developed between teachers in the University and teachers in the schools. These personal contacts may, indeed, be one of the greatest •' benefits of the program.

MATHEMATICS: NO 'DRILL' = LOW PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY

A report on the standards in Mathematics of first year students shows. that the absence of long periods of "drill" during high school has weakened problem solving ability.

The report was compiled by Mr J.L. Williams, Director of 1st and 2nd year Studies in Pure Mathematics.

Mr Williams said the University faced two problems in teaching Maths. The first, common to Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, was that more students were enrolling with 2 units of Mathematics, or 2 and no units in Physics and Chemistry. The second was that although the students knew a lot about the topics and methods of higher Mathematics, some of them were incapable of giving examples of these topics in an elementary way.

"At no time have they had to do the long and repeated periods of drill that used to be done in the primary and secondary schools," he said.

"Drill is the least attractive aspect of teaching mathematics but completely necessary if one is to be able to do anything. Our students in first year are keen, industrious, and well behaved, and I have no complaints about their attitude to work. They themselves feel their incompetence in basic mechanical operations," he said.

The report said daily lunchtime consultations with staff were packed out, mainly with students who had difficulty with mechanical operations which would have been "second nature" had they done the drill.

:TEACHING Engineers: what is a good H.S.C. ?

An investigation into the relationship between the Higher School Certificate examination results and the academic per-formance of students in First Year Engin-eering has shown that some high school courses can be a totally inadequate prepar-ation for a first year University course.

• The progress of the 1977 intake of students into the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Sydney has been carefully monitored to determine what

• influence preparation at the 1-I.S.C. level has on university performance.

The results have been documented • by Professor J.R. Glastonbury, Associate

Professor of Chemical Engineering, with the assistance of Mr E.W. Burley, Administrative Assistant to the Dean of

• Engineering. The survey found that the 2 unit

and 3 unit H.S.C. Mathematics courses were of little nse to students undertaking

*a first year university Mathematics course.

An interesting feature highlighted in s the survey was the fact that the majority

of discontinuations (15% of the intake) occurred as a result of students being unable to cope with coursework and

• term examinations. Professor Glastonbury explained the

rationale behind the monitoring of the students.

• "The H.S.C. aggregate is the sum of the scaled marks for the 10 best units presented by a candidate and is the basis

sof the award of places at universities. Thus to gain a place in the Faculty of Medicine would require an aggregate of better than 240," he said.

• "It is this situation which results in the much-advertised pressures on students to maximise their• H.S.C. aggregate by a careful selection of the courses which

* they take at the H.S.C. This has led to a marked reduction in the number of students taking 3 and 4 unit courses. Clearly this has had a considerable *impact on teaching at the university level, and we thought it advisable to conduct a survey on the relationship between university and high school courses.

"While Mathematics, Physics and • Chemistry do not represent the total

enrolment for students in first year Engineering, these core courses govern the progress of students to more

*advanced courses and therefore the survey was confined to these subjects.

"By statistically comparing the H.S.0 aggregate with the weighted average

• mark (W.A.M.) gained by students in all their first year Engineering subjects it

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was proved that high aggregates were strongly associated with high marks in the University."

According to the survey a student should obtain a W.A.M. of 55% or better to have an adqueate performance in first year Engineering. The statistics showed that students with H.S.C. aggregates of 340 and better were likely to gain this mark. The high aggregate groups were composed of those students who had undertaken the large unit courses or obtained very high grades while in high school.

It was noted that those students studying university Mathematics who had taken 2 unit H.S.C. Mathematics had a relatively poor history in university testing, and those with 3 unit Mathematics and grades of 4 and 5 within this unit, also fared badly.

The survey also showed the perform-ance of students studying university Chemistry and Physics. Surprisingly 23 students entered first year Engineering having not studied Physics or Chemistry at the H.S.C. level. Their results were uniformly poor in university exams.

The conclusions drawn from the survey amount to a list of prerequisites for a successful first year Engineering. They are an H.S.C. aggregate of 330 or better, 3 unit Mathematics with grades of 1, 2, or 3 and 2 unit Physics plus 2 unit Chemistry or a 4 unit multistrand Science.

Professor Glastonbury commented on the results which the monitoring of the 1977 intake of students had provided.

"The overall conclusion is that a student requires an H.S.C. aggregate of better than 330 to have a better than 50% chance of passing first year exam-inations in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry," he said.

"It has been stated by the Board of Senior School Studies that all of the courses with the exception of 2 unit A, which is a general course, should provide an adequate preparation for a tertiary course in that subject.

"The figures we have compounded prove that this is just not the case."

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AUSTRALIA'S FIRST LIBRARIAN-IN-RESIDENCE

Harrison Bryan, Librarian of the University of Sydney, recently completed two weeks as Australia's first ever Librarian-in-Residence. He was invited to be the first to hold this office by the School of Library and Information Studies at the Ku-ring-gai College of Advanced Education.

While "in residence" Harrison Bryan had the opportunity to regain direct contact with the educative side of librarianship. Students at the Ku-ring-gai College also had the opportunity to talk to one of the most distinguished librarians in Australia.

As head of the University of Sydney Library Harrison Bryan now controls a budget of $1.5 million (excluding salaries), a staff of 230, and 2,300,000 volumes. During his 30 years of library experience he has noted many changes in the education of librarians, chiefly in the importance placed on developing an overview of the problems of librarianship.

"Once the stereotype of the librarian was of the person who did something to the books so that other people could find them. Nowadays the librarians is increasingly the person who can help people exploit the resources of the library," he said.

Harrison Bryan gave a public ecture at the College to mark the opening of the Scheme.

GYMNASTICS AT THE SPORTS CENTRE

The Sports Centre has two fully equipped gymnasia, and experienced Instructors to coach and teach every aspect of this skilled sport. Many students and staff already use this facility to practise their movements and skills, and for simple enjoyment. There are classes for everyone.

POTTERS' NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN SEYMOUR CENTRE

Delegates from New Zealand and New Guinea will attend the national conference of the Potters Society of Australia to be held in the Everest Theatre at the Sey-mour Centre from May 15-19.

More than 450 potters will participate in the conference, many of whom will travel from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and North Queensland to join in the discussions, work-shops and practical demonstrat-ions available during the week.

Enquiries may be directed to Mrs. Alenson on 31 3151.

A NEW SORT OF CONCERT The Music Department has pre

pared a new sort of concert for Tuesday, May 2, in the Great Hall at 8 pm. The programme is a mixed one, designed to show some of the Department's work in the field of practical music. The con-cert culminates in a performance of Bach's No. 4 Cantata, Christ lag in Todesbanden by Pro Musica Choir and Orchestra conducted by Professor Platt, and before this the orchestra will play Mozart's Haffner Symphony, conducted by Eric Gross. The first half of the concert will be given by senior students of the Department per-forming solo works and chamber music from the Baroque and by Beethoven, Faure and Falla.

The "gentlemen's agreement" which existed between the University of Sydney and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital has been formally recognised in the establishment of a new Chair of Pathology by the University.

The "agreement" permitted University pathology trainees to utilise the Hospital's facilities, such as being able to perform in post-mortem examinations. Conversely, Hospital staff assisted in the University's teaching program.

The appointment of Professor McGovern to the Chair reflects the .degree of co-operation between the two institutions. Professor McGovern has been Director of the Fairfax Institute since 1958, and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Pathology in the Univesrity since 1950.

He is currently Vice-President of the International Academy of

OF MICE AND MEN The Australian Laboratory and

Captive Animal Scientist Group is holding its Annual Conference on the 12th to 14th May, 1978, at The University of Sydney. The programme will consist of 2 scien-tific sessions and 4 workshops on the following subjects: (1) current moves in the control of animal experimentation, (2) new concepts in laboratory anim-als - covering marmosets, miniature pigs, nude mice and marsupials,

NEW SERIES: DINNER/LECTURE ON SOLAR ENERGY

Associate Professor D. Haneman of the School of Physics, University of New South Wales, who has recently made significant contributions in solar energy research will give the inaugural lecture at 7.30pm, Thursday, 18th May 1978, of a special dinner-lecture series which the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Australian Section is arranging at the Sydney Club.

The lecture is entitled "Recent

Pathology and has served on several World Health Organisation panels for the classification and nomenclature of varius diseases.

The establishment of the new Chair will directly benefit pathology trainees at the University who previously had no access to clinical material provided by the day to day treatment of patients. University trainees will now be able to develop a clinical approach and Hospital staff will be able to play a greater role in undergraduate teaching within the University.

In the past the University could provide only one year of the five years of training required for admittance to the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia. The University, the Hospital, and the College now hope that further training may be arranged through the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

The establishment of the Chair

(3) stress factors - their measure-ment and effect on research para-meters, (4) animal house design -a cost/benefit analysis.

In addition, the guest speaker is Professor David Blackmore,who will speak on "The routine monit-oring of laboratory animal colonies for evidence of disease".

The registration fee is $10 and registration forms or any further information can be obtained from Dr. G. Kelly, Director of Animal Houses, 634 2748 or ext. 3603.

Developments in Solar Energy for Electrical Power Production" and will be of interest to non-specialist and specialist alike. All are welcome. Bring your spouse or friend.

Admission, including dinner, is $7.50 for IEEE members ($15.00 double), and $10.00 for non-members.

Tickets may be obtained from Mr L.J. Clementson, telephone 638-6229 (business hours) or 44-6668 (after hours).

The Sydney Club is located at 9 Rowe Street, Sydney (off Pitt Street, near Martin Place).

will re-inforce traditional ties between the University and the Hospital. Early physicians and surgeons at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital were invariably part-time lecturers and professors at the University of Sydney and the association has expanded with the growth of each institution.

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MEDICINI Advances for the epileptic

Epilepsy patients can now be monitored for laboratory diagnosis • while eating, sleeping, or watching television. Researchers say this has

been made possible by recent advances in electronics leading to further development of the E.E.G. Telemetering System.

The "E.E.G. Telemetering System" is currently used to obtain a record of the electrical signals generated by the brain. The disturbance of electrical functioning or abnormal electrical activity results in an epileptic fit. Therefore a continuous record of the electrical signals is vital in diagnosing and treating epilepsy.

Grants from the Ramaciotti Foundation have enabled a research team from the University to instigate a three year project at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the only hospital in Australia presently using the new system of E.E.G. Telemetry.

Professor J.G. McLeod, of the Department of Medicine, said that in the past, routine E.E.G. investigations had confined the patient to a chair or bed. Recording sessions were limited to one or two hours at the most, he said, and this wasn't long enough to collect sufficient data for accurate analysis.

"With the advanced E.E.G. system a patient can go about his normal daily activities either at home or in hospital for twenty-four hours and have E.E.G. information continuously recorded".

The advanced E.E.G. system connects electrodes attached to the scalp to a small F.M. radio transmitter, which the patient wears on a belt. The information is then coded into a single F.M. carrier. It is possible to transmit E.E.G. information continuously while the 'patient moves around the hospital. The received F.M. signal is stored on the soundtrack of a video tape and a video picture of the patient is recorded on the video section of the tape. The E.E.G. and the image of the patient can be "frozen" at any instant, and, for example, epileptic discharges may

• be related with the behaviour of the patient. Because the recording spans a far longer period of time researchers

are able to diagnose more accurately the nature of the problem, and either surgical or psychological treatment may be recommended.

"In addition to the assistance which the new E.E.G. Telemetry • has given us in diagnosing epilepsy, accurate methods for measuring anti-

convulsant drugs in the blood of patients have been developed," said Professor McLeod.

• "These two factors, combined with the introduction of new X-ray equipment in the form of a computerised Axial Tomographic Scanner have greatly advanced the investigation and management of epilepsy patients. The C.A.T. Scanners are highly sophisticated machines which

• can X-ray various levels of the brain in under an hour. This is a big help in treating tumours and other brain abnormalities, which could possibly be causing epileptic fits.

"As we can now measure the exact amount of drugs that are in the *

bloodstream at any given time we can now tell if the patient is being affected by his medication and if in fact he is taking the prescribed dose of the drugs".

Dr. John Walsh of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital supervising testing of an epilepsy patient with new E.E.G. equipment.

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RETIRING TECHNICAL OFFICER WAS A "BOY" HALF A CENTURY AGO Mr George Botting retired as Senior

Technical Officer with the Department of Civil Engineering on Friday April 21. He also celebrated his 65th birthday on that day.

The two events provided him with an opportunity to review his long association with the University, which began when he was first employed in the P.N. Russell School of Engineering at the age of 15.

A reference concerning George Botting was written in 1933 by Sir Henry Barraclough, then Professor Henry Barraclough, Professor of Mechanical Engin-eering in the University of Sydney. The fol-lowing excerpt shows just how much times have changed over those years:

"This document certifies that George Henry Botting was first employed as a Boy

in the P.N. Russell School of Engineering in June 1928 . . . . to assist the Engine Driver in his duties . . . . He has assisted the Fitters in the maintenance, overhaul, and repair of Boilers and Pumps, Steam, Gas, Oil and Petrol Engines, Refrigerating Plant and Air Compressors, and he has had experience in the running of all these units."

George Botting left the University in 1932 and returned in 1946 as a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering.

By 1961 he was Chief Laboratory Technician and even before the roof was af-fixed on the new Materials and Structures Laboratory he was in residence in that buil-ding supervising the installation of machinery. The Materials and Structures Laboratory marked the beginning of the

Faculty of Engineering in Darlington, as Civil Engineering was the first of the six departments to be completed.

As Senior Officer with the Department George Botting was in charge of the Cement and Concrete, Hydraulics, Materials and Structure, Soil Mechanics and Surveying laboratories. He was responsible for the machinery needed in each of these labor-atories, as well as for checking the tech-nical drawings of students and researchers.

University colleagues of many years standing attended a farewell held by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor B.R. Williams, in George Botting's honour on the day of his departure. This function was followed by a Departmental farewell for the man who was one of the longest serving employees in the Faculty of Engineering.

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• WASTEWATER CONFERENCE

An International Conference on Develop-ments in Land Methods of Wastewater Treat-ment and Utilisation will be held in Melbourne from 23rd to 27th October, 1978. The Confer-ence is being sponsored by the Australian National Committee of the International Association on Water Pollution Research, the Australian Water and Wastewater Association, the Asian Regional Division of the Internat-ional Association of Hydraulic Research, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, the University of Melbourne and the Division of Chemical Technology, C.S.I.R.O.

The Conference will involve a variety of disciplines including chemical, biochemical and enviromental engineering, microbiology, public health, animal science, chemistry and agriculture.

Further information may be obtained from Mr.J.H. Greer, Conference Secretary, IAWPR Conference Office, GPO Box 4342, Melbourne, 3001.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR CANADA

The University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, is offering Graduate Teaching Assistant-ships, Graduate Research Assistantships and University Scholarships and Bursaries for grad-uate study leading to the degree of Master of Human Kinetics.

For further information, contact the Graduate Co-ordinator, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9B 3P4.

COPPLESON POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF DATES Please note the following changes in dates of

courses advertised in the Coppleson Institute's programme of courses to be held in 1978, published as a supplement to the January issue of the A.M.A. Bulletin —

Seminar on Diabetes — from 6/7 May 1978 to 16/17 September 1978.

Course on Paediatric Anaesthesia and Resuscitation — from 22 May-2 June 1978 to 29 May-9 June 1978.

Other details relating to these courses remain the same.

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

Second Course: VARIA TIONAL IN-EQUALITIES AND COMPLEMENTARITY PROBLEMS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND ECONOMICS Erice-Trapani-Sicily: 19-30 June 1978.

Persons wishing to attend the course should write immediately for further infor-mation to: Miss Marina Rossi, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Piazza del Cavalieri, 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy.

CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES AWARD FOR TRAVEL TO CANADA

FOR UNIVERSITY GRADUATES Canadian Pacific Airlines offers one free

economy class return flight a year from any airport in Australia used by the Company to any airport in Canada used by the Company. The award does not include the family of an award holder. Candidates must be graduates of an Australian university. The award is not available to permanent staff, students who hold or are already enrolled for a PhD, or students who hold another award which pays all or part of the fare. Candidates must be Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia and, before their departure, be able to give an assurance that (a) they have been accepted at a Canadian university, Ib) they are able to support themselves for the period of their stay in Canada while studying on a full-time basis, and (c) they intend to return to Austral-ia on completion of their studies.

It is expected that, as a rule, candidates will study in Canada for a duration of at least one acadamic year, and normally an award will not be made to a candidate proceeding to Canada for less than this period.

Application forms are available from Mrs. Holliday in Room N641 in the office of the Registrar. Applications close on June 1, 1978.

MATRICULATION EXAMINATION The University of Sydney Matriculation

Examination will not be held in 1979 nor in the immediate years after this.

Chapter XX of the University By-Laws (Section3 111 )provides that the Vice-Chancellor may determine whether a Matriculation Exam-ination shall be held in any particular year, and, after reviewing the current need for this exam-ination, particularly in relation to recent changes in the Higher School Certificate Examination, the Vice-Chancellor has determined that the examination should not be continued.

A declining number of candidates has attempted to qualify to matriculate to the University of Sydney at this examination in recent years, and, as the Higher School Certif-icate Examination will make provision in future for results to be determined on the basis of school assessments for those candidates unable because of illness or misadventure to attempt the Higher School Certificate. it is expected that this number will continue to decline. In these circumstances the Matriculat-ion Examination no longer serves a useful purpose and its discontinuation is unlikely to disadvantage any student.

THE LIFE INSURANCE MEDICAL RESEARCH FUND OF AUSTRALIA

AND NEW ZEALAND

This Fund is provided by The Life Offices' Association of Australia and by The Life 4 Offices' Association of New Zealand Inc.

Applications closing July 1, 1978 are invited for financial assistance to conduct research b broadly related to cardiovascular function and cfsease.

Grant-in-aid: These will be awarded to non-profit institutions in Australia or New Zealand_ equipped with the basic facilities for research.- Grants, which may provide salaries for technical and other assistants, equipment and supplies, will be made initially for one to three years to support a specific programme of fund-

amental or clinical research under the direction • of an experienced full-time investigator.

In special circumstances consideration will also be given to requests for financial assistance to conduct other activities which aim to pro-mote research and knowledge in the cardio-vascular field.

Research Fellowships: Fellowships are offered to University graduates to engage full-time in fundamental or clinical research. Satisfactory arrangements must be made hand by the applicant to do the proposed work in an approved department or institution, under the supervision of a qualified investigator.

(al Fellowships to work in Australia and New Zealand.

These will be granted initially for one year with a commencing salary for medical graduates of not less than $8,900. Previous research exper-ience is not essential.

113) Travelling Fellowships: These will be granted for a period of two or

three years to graduates with at least two years' experience in research. The commencing salary will be not less than $13,000 according to experience and place of work. Travelling exp-enses will be provided for the Fellow and his family. There will be a dependants' allowance while overseas.

The S.A. Smith Visiting Fellowship: The Fund will consider nominations, from

established research workers in Australia and

New Zealand, of distinguished overseas persons • in the field of cardiovascular function and disease for award of an S.A. Smith Visiting Fellowship, so named to commemorate Dr. Smith's distinguished service to the Fund.

Nominations should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the person proposed, together with a list of his publications, and supported by referees' reports.

Under such a Fellowship, it is expected that a visitor should work in the sponsoring institution for not less than six months or more than one year.

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S.U.W.S.A. SOCIAL SPORT

The Trinity Term Social Sport programme run by th S.U.W.S.A. has now been organised and entries are being accepted for all the com-petitions which will begin from Monday 12th June. The activities include, women's volleyball mixed volleyball, mixed basketball, women's netball, mixed netball, women's soccer, mixed badminton, men's table tennis, women's singles table tennis, mixed doubles table tennis, mixed doubles tennis, women's novice squash, and second year women's squash competition. Please contact the Sports Centre for further details of days and times.

BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES

FELLOWSHIPS AND BURSARIES — '1978/79

Applications are invited from British and Commonwealth subjects wishing to pursue research in any field of Persian Studies concerned with the arts, archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, religion, philosophy and cognate subjects. Awards are valued at up to £2 500 and are tenable for up to nine months. Further information is available from Mrs Holliday in Room N641 in the Registrar's office. Applications close in England on 1 June, 1978.

The financial arrangements will depend upon individual circumstances and needs, but will normally cover fares for the visitor, together with additional allowances. No Fellow. ship shall exceed $10,000 but, if funds permit, more than one Fellowship may be awarded in any one year.

Application forms and brochures containing more detailed information may be obtained from Professor M.G. Taylor, Medical Director, The Life Insurance Medical Research Fund of Australia and New Zealand, Box 4134, G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Applications close on July 1, 1078.

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. NOTICES WEL LCOME-RAMACIOTTI RESEARCH

TRAVEL GRANTS (for British/Irish and Australian exchange visits)

The Wellcome Trus; in London and the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations in Australia have established a system of research travel grants to enable medical research workers in Britain and Ireland and in Australia to visit each other's country so as to exchange views and work with colleagues with similar interests, or to study or acquire new research techniques. The Trustees will be looking for proposals and projects that indicate originality and imagination. The duration of the visits may vary according to individual requirements.

Applications may be made at any time. Further information and application forms will be available from Mr J.B. Buchanan (extension 3324).

THE A.H. ROBINS AWARD Entries are invited for the A.H. Robins

Award for 1978. The award has been establish-ed by A.H. Robins Pty. Ltd. in the Faculty of Medicine in the field of Preventative and Social Medicine. It is available to medical students for work done during the unallocated term bet-ween the end of Medicine IV and Medicine V. The annual value is $500.00.

An analytical report of work under-taken during the unallocated term within limits of 3,000 to 5,000 words should be submitted to the Dean's office by October 9, 1978. Please note the new closing date.

FOR SALE Waterfront block at Berowra Waters, walking distance from the ferry. Deep water, backs onto bush and faces bush across the river. $15,000. 660 1848.

THE HERBERT JOHNSON TRAVEL GRANTS

Applications are invited for Herbert Johnson Travel Grants for 1978. The income from the Herbert Johnson Fund is available for payment to graduates of the University of Sydney who proceed overseas to undertake research work and who are unable to meet their total costs from other funds. Grants may be made to graduates where they hold Travellii:g Scholar-ships or other travel grants and shall be made for the purpose of travel to or from Australia or from one place of research to another while overseas, or for expenses in connection with their work provided that the maximum amount Payable to any person from the fund in any year shall be $400. Application forms are available from Mrs. Holliday in Room N641 in the Registrar's office. Applications close on May 31, 1978.

WEEKLY CALENDAR Continued from back page

MONDAY, MAY 8 11.00 am Seminar. "Manganese utilizing bacteria", Speaker: Mr. R.

Volcich, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistr Building, Level 5, Room 533.

12 noon Film. The Lord of the Flies. Part of the course A Critique of Contemporary Liberalism, Department of Government Merewether Lecture Theatre 2.

1.00 pm Seminar. "What makes a virus go" Speaker: Dr.Y.Cossart Department of Bacteriology. Room 356, Anderson Stuart Building,

1.00 pm Forum. "The ALP's economic policy". Speaker: P.P. McGuiness. MLT5.

1.10 pm Seminar. "The energy problems of stiffening sperm-tails". Speaker: Dr. A. Swan, Histology Seminar room.

2.00 pm Forum. "Fraser's economic policy, Speaker: Bill Waters,

MLT2. 2.00 pm Seminar. "Utility and Rational Self-Interest". Speaker:

D.M. McDermot, Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, Staff Common Room.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "Plasma processes in solar radio emission", Speaker Dr. D.B. Melrose, ANU, Lecture room 5, School of Physics.

5.15 pm Seminar. "Prayer and Piety as Historical Problems". Speaker: Professor P. O'Farrell, University of NSW, History Department Seminar Room B.

7.30 pm Union movies - Elektra and Last Year at Marienbad.

8.00 pm Lecture. "Joseph Beuys' Performances" by Rene Block, Carslaw Lecture Theatre 5.

TUESDAY, MAY 9 9.30 am Ecology Discussion Group. "What I didn't do on my

Sabbatical, or , Adventures in Arnhem Land". Speaker: Bill Magnusson. School of Biological Sciences. Zoology Seminar Room.

2.45 pm Carillon recital.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "The implications of the north west shelf

development of the West Australian energy scene" Speaker: .1.B. Kirkwood, Chemical Engineering Lecture Theatre 1.

6.00 pm Manning Bar Entertainment - John Williamson. 7.30 pm Union movies - Nashville and Hollywood cowboy.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 9.00 am TV program 'Chaucer - The Miller's Tale and The Nun's

Priest's Tale", Associate Professor Bernard Martin, Department of Adult Education.

12 noon Free Union movie - Caddie.

1.00 pm Conducted walking tour of University grounds. Leaves from centre of Main Quadrangle at 1.05 pm (this series of tours is being conducted voluntarily during Lent term only). Seymour Centre will be visited this tour.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "Heat Transfer" Speaker: Dr. Grahame Morrison, Staff Conference Room, Level 5, Mechanical Engineering Department.

4.15 pm Seminar. "Some aspects of Skarn Formation at Ok Tedi, Papua-New Guinea and Ertsberg and Solo, Irian Jaya. Speaker: Mr. G. Katchan, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Edgeworth David Lecture Theatre.

5.15 pm Seminar. "Factors affecting the distribution patterns of Intertidal Limpets". Speaker: Mr. Bob Creese, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney. Zoology Colloquium Room.

7.30 pm Union Night Debate - The Duchess of Windsor isnt a Queen.

7.30 pm Union movies - Scenes from a Marriage - Bergman.

THURSDAY, MAY 11 12.15 pm Union movies - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 1.10 pm Seminar. "Some applications of automated image

Analysis", Speaker: Dr. C.D. Shorey, Department of Histology and Embryology Seminar Room.

1.10 pm Great Hall. Organ recital by Tony Souter. 3.00 pm Seminar. "On Segregation of the elderly", Speaker:

Cherry Swain. Reading room, Anthropology Dept. 7.30 pm Union movies - Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Cars

that ate Paris.

FRIDAY, MAY 12 9.00 am Inorganic Chemistry Seminar. "A logical view in magneto-

chemistry", Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Gerloch, University of Cambridge, Chemistry Seminar Room 418.

12.15 pm Union movies - Cross of Iron. 1.00 pm Seminar. "Applications of Atomic absorption Spectro-

photometry in Soil, Water and Plant Analysis". Speaker: Mr. M. Amos, Perkin-Elmer Corporation.

1.00 pm Seminar. "The usefulness of combining psychophysics with Neurophysiology in the visual system", Speaker: Dr. F.W. Campbell, University of Cambridge, Room 356 Anderson Stuart Building.

5.00 pm End of Term Manning Bar Party - Dan Johson Band and Rusty Dusty Brothers and Flowers (drinks 30c).

SATURDAY, MAY 13 9.30 am Graduation ceremony - Arts. 11.30 am Graduation ceremony - Economics.

SUNDAY, MAY 14 2.45 pm Carillon recital. Inspection of bells after.

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MONDAY, MAY 1

11.00 am Seminar. "Mechanisms of metal tolerance in bacteria",

Speaker: Miss Jane Rawlings, "Ecology of methylamine utilizing microorganisms", Speaker: Mr. B. Vicknell,

Department of Microbiology; Biochemistry Building Level 5, Room 533.

12.00 Film. If. Part of the course A Critique of Contemporary Liberalism. Department of Government, Merewether

Lecture Theatre 2. 1.00 pm Seminar. "Distribution of Ionic Conductances in

Mammalian Muscle is Different from that in Amphibian Muscle". Speaker Dr. A. Dulhunty, Dept. of Anatomy,

Room 350, Anderson Stuart Building.

1.00 pm Forum. "Opening of alternate education week - political

economy celebrates 10 years". Speakers: Ted Wilshire, L. Carmichael and M. Brezniak, Merewether courtyard.

2.00 pm Seminar. "What is Semantics", Speaker: Dr. M. Devitt, Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy,

Staff Common Room, s-e corner main quadrangle. 3.00 pm Forum. "New wave music and the current crisis",Speaker:

Mr. P.S. Vineburg and Mr. S. Burrell, MLT3. 4.00 pm Seminar. "The behaviour of a fascinating polygene",

Speaker: Dr. R. Frankham, Biological Sciences, Macq-uarie University. Room 648 RMC Gunn Building.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "General relativity and the astrophysics of our galaxy". Speaker: Prof. Remo Ruffini, University of Rome. Lecture Room 5 (Room 337) Physics School.

5.15 pm Seminar. "The Roman Colonial Office - The Sacred Con-gregation of the Propaganda Fide in the 19th century." Speaker: Tony Cahill, History Dept. Seminar Room B.

7.30 pm Union movies - Earth and Zvenigora.

TUESDAY, MAY 2 9.30 am Ecology Discussion Group. "The Effect of Age on the

Mating ability of Male Dacus", Speaker: Harry Fay. School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Seminar Room.

12 noon Colloquium. "Recent developments in Canadian Public Administration", Speaker: W.H.N. Hull, Department of Government, Room 276.

1.00 pm Public Lecture. "Sweden - The Welfare state at the cross-roads", Speaker: Mr. Per Fellenius, Stockholm University, Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "The relationship between thermodynamics

and information theory", Speaker: Professor L.C. Woods, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University, Carslaw 16.

6.00 pm Manning Bar Entertainment - Phil Hungerford, folk singer. 7.30 pm Union movies - Journey among women and A gorgeous

bird like me.

8.00 pm Music Department Concert of Choral, Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Faure

and Fella, in the Great Hall - tickets $5; $3 students.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3

9.00 am TV programme Channel 7 - Major Barbara, G.B. Shaw, Dr. Penny Gay, Department of Adult Education.

1.00 pm Concert - Union Theatre. "Stars"

1.00 pm Seminar. "Global classification of beach morphodynam-

ics", Speaker: Dr. A. Short, Geography Conference Room

N208, Institute Building. 1.00 pm Conducted walking rour of University grounds. Leaves

from centre of Main Quadrangle at 1.05 pm (this series of tours is being conducted voluntarily during Lent Term

only). The Services Building will be visited this tour.

1.00 pm Film - A world of difference. A Tear Fund Production

Evangelical Union Public meeting, Carslaw 3.

3.00 pm Forum. "The Family under Capitalism". Speaker: Rebecca

Albury. MLT3.

7.30 pm Seminar. "Lexical patterns in the meaning of words". Speaker: Professor Peter Fries, Central Michigan Univers-ity, Griffith Taylor building room 427.

1.05 pm Seminar. "Energy Conservation in Buildings through Planting". Speaker: Stephen Lesiuk. Architecture Lecture Theatre, Level 2.

1.10 pm Piano recital by David Vance in Great Hall, programme-Liszt, Granados, Stravinsky and Beethoven.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "Motor Vehicle Emision Modelling", Speaker: Dr. John Kent, Staff Conference Room, Level 5, Mechanical Engineering Department.

4.00 pm Seminar. "Double Layer and Colloid Science" Speaker: Assoc. Professor R.J. Hunter, Lecture Theatre 4, School of Chemistry.

7.30 pm Union Night Debate. "What is good for Utah is good for Australia".

5.15 pm Seminar. "Chemoreceptor Control of Gas Exchange in a Diving Lizard, Physignathus Lesueurii", Speaker: Gillian Courtice, School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Colloq-uium room.

7.30 pm Union movies - Assassination of Trotsky plus State of

Siege.

8.00 pm Public lecture. "The technology of Thought". Speaker:

Dr. John Hammersley, F.R.S., Reader in Mathematical Statistics, University of Oxford. Stephen Roberts Theatre.

Arranged by the Department of Adult Education.

THURSDAY, MAY 4 12.15 pm Union movies - Reefer Madness. 1.00 pm Talk and slides. "White wine woollen socks and vege-

mite sandwich in the Ethiopian rift on St. Valentines

Day", Speaker: Paul Bishop, Geography Department, 2nd year lab. Institute Building, Dixon Wing.

1.00 pm Chamber music al fresco - Pleasaunce B-B-Q.

1.10 pm Seminar. "The energy problems of stiffening sperm-tails-.

Speaker: Dr. A. Swan, Histology Seminar room.

2.00 pm Forum. "Fraser's economic policy", Speaker: Bill Waters,

M LT2.

3.00 pm Seminar. "Rhetoric and ambiguity in the work of Grafton Elliot Smith. Speaker: Ian Langham, History & Philosophy

of Science. Reading Room, Department of Anthropology.

4.00 pm Seminar. "Australian Coal - Why?", Speaker: DrD.Gould, Department of Geology, University of New England,

Edgeworth David Lecture Threatre. 7.30 pm Union movies - Mr. Klein and The Sailor who fell from

Grace with the sea.

FRIDAY, MAY 5 9.00 am Seminar. "Chemical problems in a commercial, engineer.

ing and environmental context: the production of titanium dioxide", Speaker: Dr. D.J. Fensom, I.C.I., Chemistry Seminar Room 418.

12 noon Seminar. "Studies on the biochemical genetics of oxidat-ive phosphorylation, using E. toll." Speaker: Professor F. Gibson, Department of Biochemistry, ANU Canberra. Room 471 Biochemistry building.

12.15 pm Union movies - The Pink Panther strikes again.

1.00 pm Seminar. "Control of inflorescence formation in the grape vine, vitis vinifera", Speaker: Professor M. Mullins, Dept. of Horticultural Science, Large Lecture Theatre, Botany Building Al2.

5.30 pm Manning Bar Entertainment - Dan Johson Band.

SATURDAY, MAY 6

11.00 am to 3.00 pm S.U. Settlement Saturday Market, Settlement Hall, 17 Edward Street, Chippendale (off Cleveland St.).

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