Page 450 - Week 02 - Thursday, 3 March 1994
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Members will already be aware of the high standards and hard won reputation of the CIT's School of Tourism and Hospitality as one of Australia's best trainers in this important industry. They have won a number of national awards for their programs and have become acknowledged leaders in this field of hospitality education. The AIHS will draw heavily upon this expertise so that the educational programs of the AIHS will complement those currently available at the CIT.
The complementary nature of the educational activities and economies of scale which will flow from the formal CIT-AIHS relationship will ensure that both operations are enhanced and even more successful. The main difference will be that the AIHS will be offering a degree-level program integrating operational training and industry experience with rigorous academic studies in fields such as human resource management, marketing, business management and interpersonal communication. This will produce senior management level graduates, people with skills instantly usable in the working environment.
In doing so, this Bill will also establish management and academic advisory bodies for the AIHS. It will identify the director of the Canberra Institute of Technology as also the director of the AIHS. It will specify the functions and powers of the AIHS. It will provide for a dean to manage the AIHS, with advice from these advisory boards; and, importantly, it will require the AIHS to operate on a full cost recovery basis. To facilitate this process, this Bill creates the position of dean of the AIHS, who will be responsible for the management of the affairs of the hotel school on a day-to-day basis. As mentioned, the dean will receive advice from both a management advisory board and an academic board, who report to the director of the CIT, and is empowered by this Bill to make the necessary administrative arrangements to ensure that the AIHS meets all of its obligations to students, staff, partner organisations and the community at large in a sound commercial manner.
The management advisory board created by this Bill will be an integral part of the process of management of the AIHS. Drawn from academic, government, industry and community ranks, the management advisory board will have the responsibility of advising the director of the CIT on a wide range of management issues, including the selection of a dean, the setting of goals and objectives for the hotel school, the welfare of students, the financial management of the hotel school, and the development of relationships between the hotel school and the community, the hospitality industry and other educational institutions.
To ensure that the AIHS will be a world-class degree program, it will be forming an alliance with one of the world's premier hotel schools to ensure that its graduates have truly international credentials. The CIT and the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in the USA have negotiated a memorandum of understanding, the details of which will be separately announced. This Bill also creates an academic board to advise the dean on matters relating to education, learning, research or the academic work conducted at the hotel school. This board will closely monitor the hotel school's academic standards to ensure that its graduates will best serve the needs of industry and the broader community.
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