Academic Governance

Whereas the friends and colleagues of the late Mrs Margaret Barrett who was a senior guidance officer in the Tasmanian Department of Education until her death in 1989, have, with the intention of commemorating her outstanding contribution in assisting children with special needs, subscribed a sum of $4,000 and have signified their wish that the said sum should be applied in founding a prize in her honour and whereas the said sum has been paid to and accepted by the Council of the University, which has agreed to the foundation of the said prize in the terms declared in these rules it is hereby provided as follows:

Rules

1. The aforesaid sum, together with any additions thereto and any accumulation of income from time to time, shall form the endowment of a prize to be called the Margaret Barrett Memorial Prize.
2. The prize shall be awarded annually to the student who has produced the most outstanding piece of work in the University of Tasmania on the subject of child development in the educational setting. Such work may include:
   • research which advances knowledge about the nature of specific learning disabilities;
   • work with treatment potential;
   • programs for use in classrooms;
   • programs for the management of children experiencing educational difficulties.
3. Undergraduate, honours and postgraduate students in any department of the University shall be eligible to compete for the award.
4. The Executive Officer for the Faculty of Arts shall cause the award to be advertised in the second semester of each year among the relevant departments of the University. Applications received shall be considered by a selection committee comprising: 
   • the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, or the nominee of the Dean, who shall be the chair;
   • the Dean of the Faculty of Education, or nominee; 
   • the Head, or nominee, of each school of the University in which a candidate has applied for the award in that year; and 
   • a senior guidance officer of the Tasmanian Department of Education chosen by the chair for this purpose.

The prize shall be awarded annually for ten years beginning with an award at the end of the 1991 academic year. At the end of that period the purpose and value of the prize shall be evaluated by the selection committee which shall consider and recommend to the Council of the University whether the prize should be continued in the form prescribed in the rules or whether the prize should be disestablished and the capital sum directed to another purpose for the benefit of children with specific learning disabilities
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