Effectiveness of Sydney and Melbourne University

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Effectiveness of Sydney and Melbourne University
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Introduction
The University of Melbourne is situated in Melbourne, Australia. The university was
founded in the year 1853. It is the second oldest university in Australia. The university has been
ranked 32nd globally in the year 2017-18 (Poynter and Rasmussen 2017). It comprises of 11
academic units and is associated with other institutes and research centers. The University of
Sydney is considered as the world’s leading university. It was founded in the year 1820. The
university has ranked top 10 in the world (Davis et al. 2016). The purpose of this essay is to
reflect on the effectiveness of Sydney University and Melbourne University.
Discussion
The purpose of Sydney University is to serve the student community with experience,
learning, teaching and providing them research facilities which is their main focus. The
university aims to create a future for the students and instill in them excellence, insights and
innovative approach. The university offers to its student new and innovative modes of teaching,
the university has many video conference rooms with advanced technology zoom. It has future
teaching spaces. It includes functionality that reduces the role of the lecturer. It enables the
students to be an integral part of problem based and group learning, it also enables sharing the
content with the students within the campus and beyond (Davis et al. 2016). The purpose of
Melbourne University is to enable the students to be the future global leaders through creation,
innovation, dissemination of business, theoretical and practical knowledge. The university aims
to evaluate and influence business activities to provide the students best possible service and
secure positive outcomes to the stakeholders and society as a whole. The university has a wider

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scope for its students as it offers unique space for thinking, technical advice, training and
development that positively contributes towards excellence. Moreover, it offers students
internship and research project opportunities (Poynter and Rasmussen 2017).
In my opinion, the criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of the university are firstly, the
objectives of the university. I think the consistency of the programs initiated by the university,
the mission; vision and priorities of the academic plans are the criteria to measure the
effectiveness of the organization. The second most important criteria to evaluate the
effectiveness is to considered the appropriateness of the resources for the undergraduate
programs, such as evidence of the adequate faculty members and staff to attain the goals and
objectives of the programs (Rossi, Lipsey and Henry 2018). I consider the evidence of the size
of class, and the appropriateness of the learning objectives. I also think that the qualification, the
scholarly record, honor and awards, proportion of the classes, commitment of the faculties and
students while measuring the effectiveness of the organization. Moreover, I think that the
evidence of the appropriate teaching methods and effective assessment in achieving the learning
objectives of the programs is important criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the university.
The competency of the faculty, the quality of scholarship, library resources, information
technology and access of the laboratory resources, are some other criteria to evaluate the
effectiveness of the university (Biggs 2014).
The major stakeholders of the university are students, staff, faculty and administrators.
From the stakeholder point of view, the criteria for effective management are the level of
selection procedures, the extent to which the universities maintain their standards, level of
motivation of the students, feedback from the faculty members and the administration, research
and support of knowledge generation. The stakeholders believe in formative improvement and