Welcome to Imitation Rituals, a blog of Australian Higher Education from the University of Melbourne. This blog has been started to address the curiosity about the Melbourne Model from students outside the University of Melbourne. It is hopefully useful for students within the university as well.
What is the Melbourne Model?
The Melbourne Model is a transition to a US-Style education structure, based on the Bologna Declaration [see wikipedia] of 1999. The Bologna Declaration, was a response globalisation in higher education and seeks to enhance the transferability of university qualifications through standardisation. The general model of undergraduate general education followed by postgraduate professional training is the same as the US model, but the Melbourne Model follows Bologna insofar as it has multiple undergraduate entry points and provides a three year undergraduate program instead of the US-style four year undergraduate course.
The implementation of New Generation degrees this year is following an incredibly rushed timeline. The Curriculum Commission went from establishment to report production to approval in about 8 months. It is no wonder that the implementation is not going smoothly.
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yo yo,
have you checked out the European Students' Union reports on the implementation of the Bologna Accords? The ESU started off an an information-sharing rather than an activist organisation so they have a lot of really awesome publications. anyway, it's interesting stuff.
http://www.bologna-bergen2005.no/EN/Part_org/ESIB/050510_ESIB-Analysis.pdf
http://www.esib.org/documents/publications/bwse2007.pdf
this caught my eye:
Maybe most striking are the effects the introduction of the two-cycle structure
has on gender distribution. From the data that is available it is already noticeable
that more female students drop out after the first cycle. In the Berlin Communiqué
it was stressed that efforts should be taken to reduce gender inequalities. Now
it seems that not only nothing has been done in this regard but also that the
Bologna structure itself promotes gender inequalities. The new degree structure
apparently introduced a glass ceiling effect for female students.
what do you think?
No wonder they're cutting Gender Studies.
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