Harvard by the harbour?

Sydney University will closely emulate the Harvard structure with a massive College of Arts and Sciences alongside five professional schools, if one of the key structural reform ideas in its newly released green paper is adopted.

Sydney University will closely emulate the Harvard structure with a massive College of Arts and Sciences alongside five professional schools if the key structural reform in its newly released green paper is adopted. The plan also suggests the establishment of three or four world-class, interdisciplinary research institutes which would draw on the university's research expertise to focus on issues of national and international importance. The centres would be modelled on the $395 million Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease which, when completed in 2013, will house around...