Candidates after accepting a nomination to be asked to present a case for their quality of research contribution and its international significance. A committee nominated by the Board of research and Development would oversee such awards. Administrative costs associated with selection committee. The supervision of higher-degree research students be properly acknowledged as a teaching activity contributing to research training and due weighting of this activity be taken into formulation of teaching load. Most give a weighting to supervision of research students that is capped.
Some costs involved but the amount is difficult to determine without knowing the new capping level.
Rationale Rationalization of small programs is underway. Some discipline areas associated with a small program are strong in research and are identified in the University s research management plan. If the net benefit of such a restructuring of a discipline into a research-only capacity is positive, and if the profile is that of an emerging area, such a move would seem to be strategic for the University research profile. The recommendation aims to make the long-term costing revenue neutral. In the initial stages some restructuring costs may be inevitable.