Edited sentence: As part of the 'Melbourne model', prospective lawyers, doctors or anyone that wants to complete a specialist degree at the University of Melbourne will most likely be paying full fees as the new specialist degrees will have very limited amount of HECS places.Criticism from the student community has also been largely focused on the timing of the introduction of the plan.It is seen as another step away from the ideal of free public education; accessible to all.Many students and members of the wider community have been critical of the Growing Esteem project.Some have also raised issues about the proposed alterations to how research is funded, with a growing dependence on private industry monies being mooted.The University administrators have also come under significant pressure to explain why the changes are being made.The consensus belief in schools is that the plans changes are more focused on monetary gain rather than what is best for the student as now academic justification for the new structure has been released by the university despite many months having past since the announcement was made.The first students affected by the changes had already begun their Victorian Certificate of Education(VCE) cycle when the plan was announced, changing the plans of many.The most significant example of this was when the University was forced to back away from its claims that the Melbourne Model brought the university into line with the Bologna agreement after it was shown that the major changes to course structure actually contradicted the Bologna Accord text.The original justification, the Bologna agreement is no longer given as a reason.The university has however been forced to make many embarrassing back flips in its attempts to convince students.The university is now simply saying that its model is better for students.There has also been widespread frustration among students about the lack of details released, in particular in reference to Melbourne’s plan to release details about new courses on Discovery Day 2007, which is a mere 2 weeks before initial tertiary entrance preferences are required from students.This criticism has been fuelled by the lack of information made available by the university.This, some say would see a further end to the idea of frank and fearless research with research being more dependent on its usefulness to industry.While information on details has remained scarce, the university has gone to great lengths to attempt to justify the model