The Sydney Technical College, now part of TAFE NSW, is a

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established in 1878, that superseded the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. The college is one of Australia's oldest technical education institutions.

History

The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was founded in 1833. In 1878, the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts formed the Working Men's College, which eventually became the Sydney Technical College in 1882. In 1911, the

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operations of the college became Sydney Technical High School. In 1923 Mary Ellen Roberts, who had become a teacher of scientific dresscutting and making at the college in 1900, managed the transfer the courses of women's handicrafts to the East Sydney Technical College. In 1949, the New South Wales University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) was founded on the college's main site, as a separate institution, before moving to its own campus in

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. In 1969, part of the college became the New South Wales Institute of Technology, which later became the University of Technology, Sydney. Sydney Technical College continued to operate, eventually becoming part of the New South Wales Technical and Further Education ( TAFE) system. The college became the Ultimo Campus (aka Sydney Institute) of TAFE New South Wales, located in Ultimo, Sydney.

Architectural students

Many prominent Australian architects studied

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at Sydney Technical College before there was a

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architecture course available in Sydney, but also attended architecture lectures in the Engineering Faculty at the

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. * John Allen * Sydney Ancher * Arthur Anderson * Henry Budden * Walter Bunning * Hedley Norman Carr * J Burcham Clamp * Bruce Dellit * Jean Fombertaux * Carlyle Greenwell * Eric Heath * Edward Hewlett Hogben * Archer Hoskings * Russell Jack * Joseph Alexander Kethel * Colin Madigan * William Monks * Donald Maclurcan * Glenn Murcutt * Sir John Overall * Lord Livingstone Ramsay * Lindsay Gordon Scott * John K. Shirley * Emil Sodersten * Florence Mary Taylor * Thomas Tidswell * Alfred Warden * B J Waterhouse * William Hardy Wilson

Gallery

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References

{{Coord missing, New South Wales TAFE NSW History of Sydney Educational institutions established in 1843 University of Technology Sydney 1843 establishments in Australia Schools of Arts in New South Wales Romanesque Revival architecture in Australia