From:	John Gava [john.gava@adelaide.edu.au]
Sent:	Wednesday, 25 October 2000 7:01 PM
To:	eet.sen@aph.gov.au
Subject:	Submission - ARC Bill 2000
The Secretary
Senate EWRSBE Legislation Committee

Dear Sir,

                        Submission - ARC Bill 2000

Attached is a copy of an article that was published in the Adelaide
Review in its September, 2000 issue.

In it I have outlined a plan to restructure higher education into three
separate streams - universitites devoted to giving students an
education, adequately funded training institutes for employment training
and pure research institutions for economically driven research.

Unless a restructuring along these lines is attempted Australia will
continue to waste much of the money which is currently devoted to
research. As I argue in the attached paper it is ludicrous to expect
researchers to be efficient if they have to teach undergraduates. At the
same time, because research is at the heart of status and promotion in
universities, too many people ask for and receive research money that
they don't need and cannot use efficiently. They do this because, if
they do not they will fall down the academic ladder.

I think that it will be nothing short of economic madness to continue
funding research in the way that it is now done.

I will be in Sydney from 1 November 2000 till 13 November 2000 and can
be contacted at (02) 9850 7072 for that time. Otherwise I can be
contacted at the numbers and addresses listed at the bottom of this
email.

John Gava

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John Gava                     
Senior Lecturer   		
Law School                      
The University of Adelaide
South Australia 5005

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