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5 unusual facts about College of Advanced Education


College of Advanced Education

This sector ceased to exist when, between 1989 and 1992, the Hawke-Keating government implemented the sweeping reforms of Education Minister John Dawkins.

Colleges of Advanced Education were similar in ideals and physical facilities to Australian universities of the period, but were state owned and controlled instead of federally funded and independent.

History of Wagga Wagga

In 1971, following pressure from the Wagga Wagga community for a university, the teachers' college became the Riverina College of Advanced Education and was relocated to a site adjacent to the Wagga Agricultural College, with whom it amalgamated in 1975.

Karyn Paluzzano

Paluzzano was awarded a Master of Education by Nepean College of Advanced Education (now the University of Western Sydney), a Bachelor of Education and Diploma of Teaching (Distinction), and an Associate Diploma in Medical Radiography.

Neville Newell

Newell was born in Sydney, Australia, received a Diploma of Applied Science from the Hawkesbury Agricultural College and a Diploma of Education from the Armidale College of Advanced Education, now part of the University of New England.



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Anthony Pritchard

As part of the Vice-Chancellor's Executive (Professor Mal Logan), he played a central role in the mergers undertaken by Monash with the Chisholm Institute of Technology and the Gippsland College of Advanced Education (GIAE).

Glenn Tasker

Tasker has the following educational qualifications: Diploma of Teaching , Mitchell College of Advanced Education (Bathurst), Bachelor of Arts, University of New England and Master of Education, University of Sydney.

Maggi Sietsma

Sietsma then moved to Brisbane to teach modern dance at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education (now the Queensland University of Technology), where she developed the first Bachelor Degree in Dance.

Tony Ameneiro

He studied at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education 1979-1981 (now University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts ).