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<headline>Law school applicants compete for fewer places</headline>
<!--articleTools Top--> <byline>Bridie Smith</byline>
<date>January 12, 2008</date>
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<!--articleExtras-wrap--> <bod> </bod>ALMOST 320 fewer offers for law places will be made to school-leavers this year, as Melbourne University continues its contentious shift to the US-style Melbourne Model.
The change, which dramatically recasts the tertiary sector, will see preferences for rival institutions spike, pushing up ENTER scores as students look for an alternative.
Data from the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre, to be released on Monday, is expected to show that Monash University secured the highest number of first preferences for the second consecutive year.
Meanwhile, Melbourne University recorded a drop of about 6% in preferences on last year, including a 1.4% fall during the change-of-preference period between October and December.
A Melbourne University spokeswoman said there had been a good demand for Melbourne Model courses and that the university was expecting to make more than 5200 offers, the same number as in 2007. The spokeswoman said the fall in the number of first preferences reflected the university's shrinking number of undergraduate courses — down from 96 last year to 29 this year.
Under the new model, law will become a postgraduate degree, offered alongside six broad undergraduate courses.
Monash recorded an increase of nearly 70% in first preferences for law this year, with about 1106 students nominating Monash law as their first choice.
Monash's acting vice-chancellor, Adam Shoemaker, said it was inevitable that the increased demand would inflate the cut-off marks required to secure a place.
"I couldn't say how high it will go because we have to see how it pans out, but it will be very high indeed," Professor Shoemaker said.
Last year ENTER scores ranged from 99.05 for straight law and 83.55 for business-law, with Monash making 340 round one offers to students on Commonwealth places.
Melbourne University made about 318 round one offers to prospective law students on Commonwealth places, with an ENTER score of 99.45 required for law or combined degrees such as arts-law, commerce-law or science-law.
Professor Shoemaker said Monash had also recorded growth in student preferences for engineering, nursing, arts and health sciences, while IT was down by about 12%, reflecting a national trend.
Deakin University welcomed a 10% rise in the number of first preferences on last year.
Vice-chancellor Sally Walker said nursing (up 21%) and primary teaching (11%) courses at the Burwood campus were in the state's top 10 for first preferences, while the Geelong campus saw growth in health sciences (up by 67%) and biomedical sciences (105%).
At La Trobe's Bundoora campus, first preferences were down slightly on last year, while courses at the Bendigo and Mildura campuses gained in popularity.
Thousands of students will discover on Monday whether they have secured a university or TAFE place when the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre releases first-round offers.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/natio...or-fewer-places/2008/01/11/1199988590024.html
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<date>January 12, 2008</date>
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<!--articleExtras-wrap--> <bod> </bod>ALMOST 320 fewer offers for law places will be made to school-leavers this year, as Melbourne University continues its contentious shift to the US-style Melbourne Model.
The change, which dramatically recasts the tertiary sector, will see preferences for rival institutions spike, pushing up ENTER scores as students look for an alternative.
Data from the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre, to be released on Monday, is expected to show that Monash University secured the highest number of first preferences for the second consecutive year.
Meanwhile, Melbourne University recorded a drop of about 6% in preferences on last year, including a 1.4% fall during the change-of-preference period between October and December.
A Melbourne University spokeswoman said there had been a good demand for Melbourne Model courses and that the university was expecting to make more than 5200 offers, the same number as in 2007. The spokeswoman said the fall in the number of first preferences reflected the university's shrinking number of undergraduate courses — down from 96 last year to 29 this year.
Under the new model, law will become a postgraduate degree, offered alongside six broad undergraduate courses.
Monash recorded an increase of nearly 70% in first preferences for law this year, with about 1106 students nominating Monash law as their first choice.
Monash's acting vice-chancellor, Adam Shoemaker, said it was inevitable that the increased demand would inflate the cut-off marks required to secure a place.
"I couldn't say how high it will go because we have to see how it pans out, but it will be very high indeed," Professor Shoemaker said.
Last year ENTER scores ranged from 99.05 for straight law and 83.55 for business-law, with Monash making 340 round one offers to students on Commonwealth places.
Melbourne University made about 318 round one offers to prospective law students on Commonwealth places, with an ENTER score of 99.45 required for law or combined degrees such as arts-law, commerce-law or science-law.
Professor Shoemaker said Monash had also recorded growth in student preferences for engineering, nursing, arts and health sciences, while IT was down by about 12%, reflecting a national trend.
Deakin University welcomed a 10% rise in the number of first preferences on last year.
Vice-chancellor Sally Walker said nursing (up 21%) and primary teaching (11%) courses at the Burwood campus were in the state's top 10 for first preferences, while the Geelong campus saw growth in health sciences (up by 67%) and biomedical sciences (105%).
At La Trobe's Bundoora campus, first preferences were down slightly on last year, while courses at the Bendigo and Mildura campuses gained in popularity.
Thousands of students will discover on Monday whether they have secured a university or TAFE place when the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre releases first-round offers.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/natio...or-fewer-places/2008/01/11/1199988590024.html