ABSTRACT
This chapter presents as a case-study in the development of one new Australian university, which had peculiar origins; and from this case-study and attempts to draw some quite limited generalizations about university planning. The new universities differ from the old ones in various ways, although many would say that these differences are superficial and that Australian universities are too much of a single pattern. Some of the new universities have emphasized certain activities; for example, research in the Australian National University, technology in the University of New South Wales, external studies in the University of New England. Others, such as Macquarie, La Trobe and Flinders, are attempting different forms of academic organization. Since the independence of Flinders, any such arrangement must be by agreement between universities, rather than by decision within a university. Flinders University and the University of Adelaide have agreed to operate a centralized admissions procedure, at least for the triennium.
