Glossary 1994

Statistics 1994 University of Tasmania

Glossary

Definitions of the terms used in Statistics 1994 mostly follow the definitions provided by the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) in its annual Higher Education Student, Staff, Research and Finance and Space statistical collections. Some terms used in the University of Tasmania, are given below.

Campus
Amalgamation of the two former institutions has resulted in two main campuses:
. Hobart (H) campus, the former University of Tasmania, incorporating the Hunter Street, Clinical School, Coservatorium of Music, and Menzies Centre.
. Launceston (L) campus, the former Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, incorporating the Newnham campus, and the Burnie and Devonport study centres.
Department
Equivalent to DEET Academic Organizational Unit, which an institution has formed in order to undertake as their primary objective teaching only or research only or teaching and research functions, or which is used for statistical reporting purposes.
Faculty
A grouping of award and non-award courses for administrative purposes. Faculties in 1994 were: 
Name			Abbreviation	Changed name 1994
Business				Commerce and Economics
Design 
Education
Engineering 
and Surveying		Eng. and Surv. 
Humanities and 
Social Sciences		Hum. and Soc. Sc. 
Law 
Medicine and Pharmacy 
Nursing
Science and 
Technology		Science and Tech. 
Visual and 
Performing Arts		Vis. and Perf. Arts
HSC
Higher School Certificate: the highest educational qualification attainable in the Australian secondary school system; replaced in Tasmania in 1992 by the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE).
Primary Teaching School
The School which teaches the largest percentage of Student Load for a Faculty.
Region
Based on either the Australian postcode or overseas country of a studentŐs permanent home residence at the time of enrolment for the current year. Within Tasmania regions are based on postcodes 72... for North, 71... for South, and 73... or 74... for Northwest. Within these categories, Urban is 0-20km from the city centre, Suburban 20-40km, Satellite includes towns on the 40km border of the city, and Rural includes all postcodes that fall outside 40 km.
Rural/Isolated
Definition as Urban/Rural is based on the distance of the postcode of permanent home location from either campus, with rural based on those postcodes in which the majority of towns fall outside 40km from either campus. For postcodes which fall on the border of 40km a grouping called Satellite has been used; for the Urban/Rural dichotomy these are classified as rural.
School
A unit which the institution has formed from a grouping of Departments (which are equivalent to DEETŐs Academic Organizational Units) for the purposes of budgeting and planning. 
Name			Abbreviation	New Name in 1994 
Architecture 
and Engineering		Arch. and Eng. 
Business and Law	Bus. and Law	Commerce and Law 
Education		Education 
Health Science		Health Sc. 
Humanities and 
Social Sciences		Hum. and Soc. Sc. 	
Science			Science 
Visual and 
Performing Arts		Vis. and Perf. Arts
Service Teaching
Distribution of Student Load (EFTSU) generated by courses (within Faculties), showing how it is taught by Departments (within Schools).
Student:Staff Ratio (SSR)
The ratio of students to Teaching Only or Teaching and Research staff, for academic staff and general staff, where students are expressed as EFTSU and staff are expressed as FTE. This excludes staff defined as Research Only or Other Function.
TCE
The highest educational qualification attainable in the Tasmanian secondary school system, which replaced the Higher School Certificate (HSC) in 1992.
Undergraduate
A student undertaking one of the following courses:
For some purposes the following enabling courses are also included:
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