News Release:
UNE creating new Centre to serve students
| Date 5/3/04 No 043/04 University of New England students will soon have a "one-stop shop" for all their administration and service needs. Internal reconstruction of an 800-square-metre area on the central floor of the University's T.C. Lamble Building has begun. The new Student Service Centre will bring together student administration services from each of the four Faculties, and the functions of the Academic Registrar's Office (including admissions, examinations, and fees and HECS). UNE's Academic Registrar, Mr Stephen Marlor, will be the Director of the Student Service Centre, which will have a combined staff of 54. "By providing high-quality support and service all in the one location," Mr Marlor said, "the new Centre will enable students to concentrate on their studies by minimising the time and effort they need to spend on administrative tasks and inquiries." "We'll be working together to make such things as quick and simple for them as possible," he continued. "This will include the provision of facilities to support them when they want to take care of administrative details for themselves by means of the Internet." The Centre will fill the space formerly occupied by Australia Post and the University's internal postal service, which have both moved to new locations on the campus. |
With demolition of the internal walls now complete, the refurbishing of the Centre's "west wing" has begun and will be completed by the end of April. It will house (in an open-plan design) the key administrative functions, while the "east wing", to be refurbished between the end of May and the middle of August, will house supporting functions, staff rooms, and meeting rooms. The Tamworth company Best Practice Constructions is doing the building work. The company has already completed several important refurbishment projects at UNE: the Stokes Chemistry Laboratory, and the Nursing Clinical Laboratory (on the first floor of the Old Physics Building). It is currently refurbishing the lower ground floor at UNE's Tamworth Centre in Fitzroy Street, Tamworth. Media contact: Stephen Marlor, Academic Registrar, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3161 or Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3049. A photograph of Mr Stephen Marlor (left) with Mr Matthew Sadleir (a partner in Best Practice Constructions), taken on the day the contract for the refurbishing work was signed, is available for download. |
