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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 34, Number 9. 1971

Undergraduate unit enrolment

Undergraduate unit enrolment.

A clearer indication of teaching and other pressures generated by enrolments, taking into account proportions of full-time and part-time students and the distribution of students among departments and faculties, is given by an anlysis of undergraduate unit enrolment.

(The following totals are derived from figures at the end of each enrolment period, and do not take into account changes in course or late enrolments.

They do, however, provide a useful indication of enrolment movements. In the table below Q represents the figures supplied in the Quinquennial Submissions; G the forecasts in line with the Grants Committee's practices; and A the actual enrolments.

Year Arts Law Science Commerce Misc. Total
1968 A 5997 1643 1838 2022 847 12347
1969 Q 6516 1810 2116 2310 749 13501
1969 G 6223 1728 2020 2206 715 12892
1969 A 6232 1800 1999 2150 546 12727
1970 Q 6703 1880 2310 2541 789 14223
1970 G 6414 1800 2210 2431 755 13610
1970 A 7141 2030 2244 2389 216 14020
1971 Q 6990 1980 2555 2828 821 15174
1971 G 6703 1898 2450 2712 787 14550
1971 A 7051 2075 2335 3094 90 14645

The decreasing figures in the Miscellaneous group represent mainly reading knowledge half-units for Arts and Science. (In 1969 the compulsory language requirement for a BA was dropped.)

The percentage increases in the number of undergraduate units taken in the main subject areas between 1968 and 1971 are as follows:
Arts Law Science Commerce
17.5 26.2 27.0 53.0

The overall increase in this group is 26.5%, against an (adjusted) forecast increase of 19.6%.)

"Growth to this extent has placed major strains on almost all types of accommodation within the University and should it continue at the present rate 'without the urgent provision of further accommodation it is doubtful whether teaching could continue at the present level."

With the onslaught of Muldoonism in 1967-68, these figures record a shift in emphasis towards units in economics and administration; although without a more substantial breakdown of faculty enrolment totals for full and part-time students, the effect on undergraduates of Muldoon's "education" policy can only be guessed at. Remarkably, as the memorandum observes without comment, the figures for unit enrolment are not in excess of expectation as are the total enrolments.