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The New South Wales Institute of the Arts (NSWIA) was established by the Institute of the Arts Act (No.124), 1987 which was gazetted on 16 July 1987. The First Board of Governors was duly constituted on 31 July 1987 and held its inaugural meeting on 19 August 1987. The objects of the institute were a) to strive for the achievement of excellence in the teaching of the arts; b) to provide practical and academic education in the various branches of the arts at the highest attainable level for those persons who have exceptional talent in any of those branches; and c) to promote and encourage within the community an appreciation of, and achievement in, the arts. On 1 January 1988 the City Art Institute (CAI), formerly an institute of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, and the National Art School, formerly the Department of Technical and Further Education's East Sydney Art School, were created constituent schools of the Institute. On 25 January 1988 they were joined by the School of Art of the Sydney College of the Arts which retained the name of the former college. The Institute was destined to be short-lived. In late 1987 the Federal Government had released the Dawkins Green Paper which set out changes in policies on higher education. The ensuing White Paper, published in July 1988, set in train changes for the newly established Institute which was invited to become part of the unified national education system. In late 1988 negotiations began between the then two higher education units of NSWIA and Sydney metropolitan universities with the aim of amalgamation which would allow the NSWIA schools to become part of the new unified national sytem of higher education. Part 6 of the Higher Education Amalgamation Act 1989, No.65, which came into effect on 1 January 1990, abolished NSWIA and amalgamated the NSWIA schools with the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. The CAI became a faculty of the University of New South Wales known as College of Fine Arts and the Sydney College of the Arts joined the University of Sydney where it was given status equal to that of a university faculty. Subordinate agency: City Art Institute (CAI), Sydney College of Advanced Education (1982-1987) / City Art Institute, New South Wales Institute of the Arts (NSWIA) (1987-1989) - 01/01/1988 - 31/12/1989