“For the University of Melbourne, a century and a half has seen shifts in curriculum, the overlay of research as a key goal, and now the hope of knowledge transfer. The institution has been shaped by its founding ideas, by restless debate within, by the exigencies of government and budgets from without. It is not one place but many traditions overlaid, each on top of earlier ideals, to build something remarkable.”[66]
This section of the Consultation Paper, “Melbourne’s place today,” is organised into three subsections: