Old boys to fund cutting-edge centre for Scotch ONE of the nation's most prestigious private schools, Melbourne's Scotch College, is planning to tap some of the city's richest families and private individuals to help bankroll a $35 million project to build a science centre named after former governor-general Zelman Cowen. The Sir Zelman Cowen Centre for Science, which the school hopes will be a leading centre for the teaching and advancement of the sciences that will set improved standards in Australian education, will be built without federal or state funding.