The best minds and the most ambitious students are attracted by sustained excellence. The best opportunities to pursue disinterested scholarship reside in well-endowed institutions. The 'Melbourne Agenda' therefore rejects the myth of the pristine public university. These are radical institution-building strategies. Some have 'commercial' elements, some do not.
None is crassly commercial in genesis or implementation.
To the extent that the 'Melbourne Agenda' is realised, the 'greater Melbourne' university that results will be, like Harvard and Stanford and Oxford and Cambridge and Keio and many other great universities, superbly resourced. Like those universities, it will draw its resources from many sources, some public, some private, some corporate, some commercial. UniNews encourages contributions to these pages from staff on issues within their area of expertise. This may include conference or seminar papers or topical opinion pieces.