The workshop series International Dialogue on Education Berlin is a joint initiative of the British Council Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Australian Group of Eight and the Canadian Bureau for International Education in Berlin.
Through the contributions of international participants the series aims to enrich the debate on science, research and higher education policy in Germany, to place German perspectives in a global context and to learn from positive examples from other countries.
Professor Michael Crommelin
Zelman Cowen Professor of Law, Director of Studies, Graduate Program in Comparative Law,
The University of Melbourne
Short biography
Kerrie Thornton,
Group of Eight Australia
The decision to adopt the Melbourne Model was taken in the context of significant developments in the Australian higher education sector: the evolution of double degree undergraduate programmes, largely in response to student demand; the dramatic shift from public to private funding of tertiary education; and the substantial increase in the number of foreign tertiary students, with its impact on university budgets and the national economy.
The Melbourne Model has, as one of its principal objectives, the enhancement of the quality of undergraduate education, by alleviating the time constraints imposed by double degree programmes on liberal degrees, restoring the status of liberal degrees, and placing renewed emphasis on cohort and coherence.
In addition to these issues the workshops will also deal with aspects such as the financial implications
of this model and its consequences for completion rates and student mobility.
