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The University of Ballarat was organised in 1994, after being sponsored by the University of Melbourne for five years, [1] and due to the passage of an Act of the Victorian Parliament. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] In 1998, the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries (1870) and the Horsham-based Wimmera Institute of TAFE merged into the university, expanding ...
The gold boom created a market for mining machinery and led to foundries being set up in Ballarat. John Walker started the Union Foundry in Ballarat in March 1865. This company and the rival Phoenix Foundry also made locomotives for the Victorian Railways, [4] There was a local demand for scrap-iron and pig-iron in the Ballarat area.
Federation University Australia (FedUni) is a public university based in Victoria, Australia. [9] It is the modern descendant of the School of Mines Ballarat, established in 1870 as the fourth tertiary institution in Australia, which evolved to form the modern university as it is today. [10]
Living in the Past was a 1978 BBC fly on the wall documentary programme. It followed a group of fifteen volunteers, six couples and three children, recreating a British Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available at that time.
It opened in 1913 in a bluestone building in the grounds of Dana Street Primary School. In 1921 it moved to a custom built school in the grounds of the Ballarat School of Mines. [1] The Ballarat Junior Technical School is a predecessor institution of Federation University Australia.
Federation University Australia Gippsland Campus is an Australian university campus located in the town of Churchill 142 km east of Melbourne. Its main neighbouring towns in the region are Morwell and Traralgon. Formerly a branch of Monash University, on 1 January 2014 it became part of Federation University Australia. Study areas at the campus ...
Ballarat offers 37 preschool institutions. [1] They are located in the suburbs of Alfredton, Bakery Hill, Ballarat Central, Ballarat East, Ballarat North, Black Hill, Brown Hill, Delcombe, Lake Gardens, Lake Wendouree, Mount Clear, Mount Helen, Mount Pleasant, Redan, Sebastopol, Soldiers Hill and Wendouree, and the townships of Buninyong, Cardigan, Creswick and Miners Rest.
Ballarat Technical School was founded as a boys' school in 1913, [5] and was officially opened in July 1915 by Sir Alexander Peacock. [6]In 1976, following the successful amalgamation of the Ballarat Technical School and the Ballarat Girls' High School (est. 1951), Mount Clear Technical High School opened as a school for years 7 to 10 students.