The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was founded in 1833. In 1878, the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts formed the Working Men's College,[1] which eventually became the Sydney Technical College in 1882.[2]
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.[4]
In 1969, part of the college became the New South Wales Institute of Technology, which later became the University of Technology, Sydney.[3]
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.[3]
Architectural students
Many prominent Australian architects studied architecture at Sydney Technical College before there was a university architecture course available in Sydney, but also attended architecture lectures in the Engineering Faculty at the University of Sydney.
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^Teale, Ruth, "Mary Ellen Roberts (1866–1924)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 19 October 2023