Meeting Notes, September 20

Lost count of which meeting this one was. In attendance we had Karen Trist, Jeremy Parker, Jeremy Yuille, Yoko Akama, Catherine Cole and Adrian Miles. Adrian showed the cost projections spreadsheet that shows how much money the proposed program, in its current format, would cost. Be good to meet with the financial analyst to go through a couple of other scenarios to be able to determine what the largest impacts on cost are. (For example does adding two students make a big or trivial difference, moving from four to three labs, what about group supervision?)

Then discussion turned to the teaching and learning ‘vision’, which went round in the usual circles and ended up becoming more detailed commentary on the lab model, assessment and how we might be able to turn this into a Learning and Teaching Investment Fund application to do some applied work come problem solving around our labs. More work to write up, apply for and so on, but potentially very useful for honours.