Australia, like many other countries around the world, needs to seriously consider how its tertiary (Higher Education and Vocational Education) system will effectively meet changing societal needs. As modern nations progressively become knowledge economies, the proportion of our population which progresses from secondary school to tertiary education will increase. Our universities and TAFE Institutes have, however, evolved from systems where only a small proportion of the population progressed to tertiary education. It is questionable whether simply scaling-up the existing structures is the logical way to meet such an expanded demand.