Education in the Australian Capital Territory - History - Encyclopedia II

The first school in what is now the ACT operated at Ginninderra from 1844 to 1848. A second school was opened in the 1840s at St John the Baptist Church located on the Duntroon Estate within the modern day suburb of Reid. It was the only school in the Canberra region, after the closure of the Ginninderra school until the opening of a state run school at Acton in 1880.^[1] Mulligan's Flat School opened in 1896 and operated until 1931 when it was demolished. The remains can still be seen near Gungahlin.^[2]

The oldest operating school in the Australian Capital Territory is Tharwa Primary School, open in 1899 in the small town of Tharwa south of present day Canberra.^[3] Hall Primary School claims to be the oldest continuosly run school in the Australian Capital Territory. It opened in 1911 in the town of Hall on the northern border of the ACT.^[4]

The Royal Military College was opened in 1911 at Robert Campbell's estate Duntroon.^[5] This was followed in 1986 with the opening of the nearby Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). The academic side of ADFA is run by the University of New South Wales.^[6]

The first modern school opened in Canberra proper was Telopea Park School opened in 1923 in what was then called Eastlake.^[7] Another early school in Canberra is the Ainslie School, it was opened in 1927 in the inner north suburb of Braddon.^[8]

Canberra University College was opened in 1930 operating as an arm of Melbourne University to provide undergraduate degrees to Canberra. The Australian National University was opened nearby in 1946 as Australia's only research only university. In 1960 the ANU and Canberra University College amalgamated, with the Canberra University College campus becoming the ANU's school of general studies.^[9]

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