The Melbourne Model
What is the Melbourne Model?
From 2008, the University will introduce landmark educational reforms known collectively as the Melbourne Model. These reforms are designed to create an outstanding and distinctive Melbourne Experience for all students. In moving to the new model, the University is responding to the challenges of today’s changing environment as well as aligning itself with the best of European and Asian practice and North American traditions.
Benefits to students and graduates
Six New Generation undergraduate degrees
The Melbourne Model is based on six broad undergraduate programs followed by a professional graduate degree, research higher degree or entry directly into employment. The emphasis on academic breadth as well as disciplinary depth in the new degrees ensures that as a graduate you will have the capacity to negotiate your way successfully in a world where knowledge boundaries are shifting and reforming to create new frontiers and challenges almost daily.
Growing Esteem strategy
The Melbourne Model is the cornerstone of the University’s broader strategic vision for future development known as Growing Esteem.
In February 2006, the University established the Curriculum Commission to review its academic programs and light the way forward to the new Model.
The Commission’s report was endorsed by Academic Board in October that year and offers a detailed look at the key principles behind the University’s New Generation courses and the pathways to graduate programs. The full Commission’s report can be viewed at the Growing Esteem website (PDF*, 2.8 MB, 64 pages).
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