The Growing Esteem strategy and the Melbourne Model

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The Growing Esteem strategy and the Melbourne
Model
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The Melbourne Model
From Secondary School
Three-year undergraduate degrees in five-six
broad fields of study
Three-year undergraduate degree at another
institution
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Professional and Specialist Masters Degree
Courses for professional accreditation and
specialist knowledge Two years or more
Research Higher Degrees Masters, PhD
GRADUATE SCHOOLS
To Employment
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Undergraduate Core Disciplinary Areas

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Bioscience
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• A decision is to be made on a proposed 'PPE'
  degree (Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics and
  Economics) later in 2006
• Name of degree to be reviewed when courses at
  the VCA are able to move to the Melbourne Model
• Some other undergraduate courses will continue to
  be offered
• Law will recruit from any undergraduate degree

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The Melbourne Experience

• Improved cohort identity and experience
• Improved teaching practices
• Small-class teaching
• Learning hubs
• Enriched campus environment
• Engagement with the community
• Monitoring, evaluation and feedback

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The University of Melbourne in 2015?

• Top Research Institution in the Country
• Site of world-significant research
• National leader in research training
• Destination of choice for eminent scholars
  outstanding students
• Melbourne Model in place
• Distinctive Melbourne experience
• Sound disciplined-based education with exposure
  to research, international experience and
  community engagement
• Well-defined graduate pathways into professional
  and research degrees
• Portfolio of Knowledge Transfer Activities
• An actively engaged, public-spirited university

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Melbourne Programs in 2007 and 2008

• In 2007
• The University will continue to offer most
  current undergraduate and postgraduate programs
  in 2007
• Students who enrol in existing programs in 2007
  will be able to continue with these programs
  until completion
• Students will be able to defer places in some
  single degree courses and for others may be able
  to request a reserved place in the new
  generation courses
• From 2008
• Some disciplines such as Law and Nursing will not
  be offered at the undergraduate level
• Other professionally accredited programs such as
  Architecture will be offered at the masters level
  but will have recommended pathways of subject
  sequences
• Most undergraduate programs will continue to be
  offered in 2008
• The implementation of the Melbourne Model does
  not contemplate any overall reduction in places
  at Melbourne for school leavers and other
  commencing students over the next four to five
  years.

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