Definitions

These are staff whose salaries are determined by the Industrial Relations Tribunal or the Remuneration Commission in respect of "academic and related staff". They may or may not be involved in teaching activities. In keeping with DEST requirements, library staff whose salaries are tied to academic salaries are not reported as academic staff within these tables.

Fixed Term: A staff member's effective substantive appointment is for a fixed period of time. Continuing: A staff member's effective substantive appointment usually lasts until retirement. Casual/Hourly-Paid: A staff member is engaged and paid on an hourly or sessional basis and has no entitlement to paid annual leave, paid sick leave, or paid long-service leave.

Academic Staff are classified within one of the following salary levels of the award "Australian Universities Academic Staff (Contract of Employment and Other Matters) Interim Award 1988" from highest to lowest: Professor, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Tutor/Tutor. From 1992, these classification levels are also referred to as Levels E, D, C, B, and A respectively and the Senior Tutor/Tutor classification has been re-named Associate Lecturer.

General Staff are classified according to the levels contained in the "Higher Education General and Salaried Staff (Interim) Award" which was implemented via the 1994 "Curtin University of Technology General Staff Award Restructuring and Enterprise Agreement". The "HEGS" levels introduced range from Level 1 (lowest), to Level 10 (highest). Some general staff are employed at levels outside this range, such as trainees and apprentices who are below the range, and staff on special managerial contracts who are shown as above the range.

Academic Staff: Staff who are employed under an academic award and who undertake a Teaching Only function, a Research Only function, or a Teaching & Research function in an institution, or those appointed by an institution to be responsible for such staff e.g., Vice-Chancellors, Deputy Vice-Chancellors. General Staff: All staff not classified as Academic.

FTE is a measure of staff resources. It expresses the agreed or contracted hours worked by a given staff member as a fraction of the hours normally worked by a full-time staff member with the same job type and level. A typical full-time member in any job would generate one FTE. Fractional time staff (part time staff) are less than 1 FTE.

Full Time Equivalence for casual staff is calculated using the aggregate of hours worked by the individual as a proportion of the hours that would normally be worked in one year by a person doing the same work or job. Staff on leave without pay at the reference date are not included.

Teaching Only: The work involves only teaching and associated activities (including lecturing, group or individual tutoring, preparation of teaching materials, supervision of students, and marking and preparation of the foregoing activities), or the management and leadership of teaching staff and of staff who support teaching staff. There is no formal requirement that research be undertaken.

Research Only: The work involves undertaking only research work or providing technical or professional research assistance, or the management and leadership of research staff and of staff who support research staff. There may be limited other work (eg. participation in the development of postgraduate courses and supervision of postgraduate students). Teaching & Research: Both a Teaching function and a Research function are undertaken, or the work requires the management and leadership of teaching staff and research staff and of persons who support such staff. Other: Functions not classified as Teaching Only, Research Only, or Teaching and Research.