As any new Macquarie staff member can tell you, our University is a place where acronyms thrive. Research centres, facilities, programs, committees – it can take years before you get your head around them all.
Here’s 30 acronyms and abbreviations you might encounter at Macquarie. How many do you know? Write down your answers, check them here and then comment below to tell us how you scored.
| 1. | AQF | |
| 2. | ARC | |
| 3. | ARWU | |
| 4. | ASQC | |
| 5. | BFRC | |
| 6. | CEH | |
| 7. | CFRC | |
| 8. | COE | |
| 9. | CRICOS | |
| 10. | DVC | |
| 11. | EAP | |
| 12. | ECR | |
| 13. | ELC | |
| 14. | ERA | |
| 15. | GLP | |
| 16. | GPA | |
| 17. | HDRO | |
| 18. | HOD | |
| 19. | IEC | |
| 20. | IELTS | |
| 21. | MGSM | |
| 22. | MI | |
| 23. | MUH | |
| 24. | MUIC | |
| 25. | MUSEC | |
| 26. | PACE | |
| 27. | PDR | |
| 28. | SRC | |
| 29. | TEQSA | |
| 30. | UAC |
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Five. It’s alienating. And insulting actually. It frequently stops me from doing my work efficiently, accessing opportunities, and finding useful contacts, as either I don’t know what the acronym stand for and have no idea whether it’s relevant, or by the time you find out what it stands for, it’s been months since the problem arose. Easily solved if people just defined the abbreviation in full the first time it’s used in a document/email/website.
22.5. I gave half a point where I had a different answer but which is one still in use.
Example: EAP could be English for Academic Purposes or Employee Assistance Program.
The PACE one got me; I remembered they had a name change but could not remember to what!