Engineering at Flinders
On December the 8th, an announcement was released to staff of Flinders University from the Vice Chancellor of the university:
This message is from the Vice-Chancellor to all staff. If you are not a member of staff at Flinders University please ignore this message.
The University has been concerned about the situation with respect to engineering for a number of years. Flinders has employed different strategies aimed at increasing demand however student interest and enrolments in engineering continue to remain low.
I am writing to advise that after careful and deliberate consideration and evaluation, Flinders University Council at its meeting on December 7, as the governing council of the University, gave in-principle agreement to a plan for Flinders to refocus the activities of its Faculty of Science and Engineering, with the emphasis on science and technology.
The University established courses in engineering in the early 1990s but, while the courses are highly regarded professionally, they have not been attracting high enough numbers of students in recent years to continue to be sustainable. The University will not have an intake into engineering courses (other than software engineering) in 2007.
Flinders is examining the implications of this situation for the staff and the students and for the University and today affected School staff and all other School and Faculty staff have been advised of the Council’s decision.
The University will be developing plans to manage the future and will ensure that all students enrolled in these courses will be able to complete their degrees.
Professor Anne R. Edwards
Vice-Chancellor
Flinders University
The committee of The IET responded to this by writing a letter, which you can read below:
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
Please be aware that a response to this letter has been promptly received, however for privacy concerns has only been released to the branch committee.