Academic
Board 4/2004 (18/8/04) agreed on a statement and definition of the
teaching-research nexus for Monash University, as follows.
The link between teaching and research has always
been an important element of Monash University’s thinking and action.
For example, in 1992, the Monash Research Review Committee Report
(the “Waller Report”) observed as follows.
Research and teaching – the discovery of
knowledge and the imparting of knowledge – are the prime functions of
the university. These
functions are, or should be, mutually supportive.
The best research environment is one in which researchers are
constantly challenged to communicate ideas to students; the best teaching
environment is one in which students are invited to share the excitement
and problems of discovery (p 5).
The teaching-research nexus at Monash is defined as
the many ways in which teaching informs research and research informs
teaching; this mutually supportive relationship operating to the benefit
of both.
