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1.10 International Demand
Right from the formation of the Department of Business Information Systems (now
School of Business Information Technology and Logistics) the founding Head, Tony
Adams along with others in the Faculty of Business began to pioneer and establish
international education initiatives onshore and offshore, namely in Malaysia, Singa-
pore and Hong Kong, particularly Barry Cooper who setup the original Malaysian
operation at Taylors College.
Staff were now required to teach overseas (in addition to consulting in industry),
which certainly added another challenge, but without a doubt yet another valuable
dimension. Groups of students from around the world appeared in classrooms, this
brought many new challenges for which many staff were unprepared - academic stan-
dards, assumptions, English language proficiency, writing and comprehension, ex-
tremes in diversity, cultural differences - all had to be dealt with. The international
student market was grown very aggressively and successfully by Barry Cooper from
Accountancy, Colin Bent and Tony Adams (onshore and offshore). They were ini-
tially the ones who had the vision to expand RMIT's activities globally, they were the
pathfinders. Once again, teaching overseas was considered to be “above load”, so
academics were paid separately for overseas teaching while still putting in full time
back home, nevertheless all academics were required to teach overseas.
2 Life and Death of Office Systems
New Office Systems subjects: Principal Lecturers were responsible for the main
groupings of staff who delivered subject (courses, subjects = programs, courses).
Department of Administrative Studies: Tony Adams, James Hearne, James Hurley.
Table 1.
1986 Undergraduate Programs
1986 - Undergraduate Programs
Special
Comment
One Year Industry
Experience Supervised
professional pr
actice
Course Name
Bachelor of Business in
the fields of:
Department
Program
Length
Accountancy
Accountancy
4
√
Business Administration
Administrative
Studies
4
√
Local Government
Administrative
Studies
4
√
Property
Applied Economics
4
√
Public Administration
Administrative
Studies
4
√
Transport
Applied Economics
4
√
Secretarial Studies*
Administrative
Studies
4
√
No new
students
may enrol
as this
course is
undergoing
review
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