"We will work with other areas, business science and medicine, reviewing subject offerings to provide a broad base of knowledge and common set of subjects that lay the foundations and promote student flexibility within their degree and crossing their degrees."

University of Tasmania Honors coordinator Jacky Hartnett said it offers a one-on-one research component with students and staff members. Members of staff work with their 'expert' areas and offer students the opportunity to bid for their choice, Hartnett said. "Research topics are primarily computing but with an application area like marine science or in conjunction with the center for spacial information systems or our collaborating partner in Switzerland.

"We try to adapt to what is coming in the future and always had an interest in mobile computing. Because of the [level of ] interest, we are running courses on imbedded systems in clothing, computing in context and the environment. We do have subjects on multimedia, data mining," Hartnett said.

"All Honors and masters students get their own computers, desk and workspace."

Uni offers software-specific courses