University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (UoM) is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. The second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria, its main campus is in Parkville, an inner suburb just north of the Melbourne CBD. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight" lobby group, and the Sandstone universities.
Melbourne University is ranked among the top universities, both in Australia and the world. The University is highly regarded in the fields of the engineering, arts, law, humanities, and biomedicine
The University has around 44,000 students, who are supported by nearly 7,000 staff members (full or part-time). On 15 November 2005, the University announced a strategic plan entitled "Growing Esteem". The University will consolidate its three core activities—Research, Learning and Knowledge transfer—in order to become one of the world's finest institutions. In 2008, the University introduced the controversial Melbourne Model, a combination of various practices from American and European Universities, which the University says will make the university consistent with the Bologna Accord, ensuring its degrees have international relevanceProf. Glyn Davis AC is UoM's current Vice-Chancellor.The University's coat of arms is a blue shield on which, in white, Victory holds her laurel wreath over the stars of the Southern Cross. The motto, on a scroll beneath, is 'Postera crescam laude', borrowed from one of Horace's odes. The full phrase is 'ego postera crescam laude recens'. The motto fragment literally means, 'later I shall grow by praise'. The University currently uses a far freer translation, 'We shall grow in the esteem of future generations.' The arms include no crest, nor supporters.