Description
Alexander Mackie College (AMC) began life in 1958 at Paddington in the eastern suburbs of Sydney in very cramped and unsuitable teaching conditions and facilities. It trained primary and high school teachers in art, music, science and social science (Byrnes and Conners in Koder, 1989, p.213). As student numbers grew, it had to conduct classes at five different sites in inner-Sydney. The main campus was in Albion Avenue whose buildings were extensively refurbished and remodelled while the Administrative campus was in Commonwealth Street. Others still were in Flinders Street. Mr. W. E. Hart was its first principal. Although the first intake was in September 1958, it was not until 9 September, 1959 that the first term began (AMC Handbook 1959-60, p.6). It was officially opened on 20 November 1961. As from 1 September 1971, under the terms of the Higher Education Act, 1969, no. 29, AMC was declared a college of advanced education within the Department of Education, NSW (NSW Government Gazette, no. 95, 37 August 1971; AMC Calendar, 1972, p 5; SACE, Annual Report, 1982, p.1). This, however, did not alter its main function as a single purpose teacher education college. Following the proclamation of the Higher Education Act, 1975, No. 40, AMC became the multi-disciplinary AMCAE. It was 'declared on 1 August 1974 within the Ministry of Education and incorporated on 1 December, 1974' (SCAE, Annual Report 1982, p.1; AMCAE, Handbook 1981, p.1-2). In 1975 the multi-disciplinary Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) had in place two major schools, Art and Education, offering several degree and award courses. Towards the end of the 1970s, new courses in the field of General and Community Studies were introduced. These changes led to two very important and significant developments in the evolution of what was to become SGIE and CAI of the SCAE. First, it gave impetus to the development of award courses in visual arts and higher award courses in art education. Second, it led to the teaching facilities crisis which prompted the establishment of the Oatley campus which became home to the School of Teacher Education and later the St George Institute of Education (Byrnes and Conners in Koder, 1989, p.213-4). College Council was its governing body. The Act authorised Council to delegate its powers to individuals or committees within the College. It constituted the following committees: Executive Committee of Council Buildings, Grounds and Finance Committee Education Committee Personnel Committee College-Community Committee Appeals Committee Academic Board College Council also authorised its various committees to delegate their functions and authorities to sub-committees. Thus, the Academic Board had the following sub-committees: Board of Studies - Teacher Education - Art Education Admissions, Progressions & Exclusions Student Welfare (SG 009 or 86/021 & 87/120) In 1981, the Oatley campus, in the southwestern region of Sydney called St George, became fully functional and operational. It functioned wholly as the teacher education campus while the Paddington campus became the home of the art education and evolved into the City Art Institute (CAI) in 1982 encompassing both Visual Arts and Art Education. This physical and discipline-based split of the AMCAE into the 'education' campus and the 'arts' campus was somehow prescient of the respective fates of the two colleges, later institutes of the SCAE. On 11th September 1981, the chairman of the NSW Higher Education Board, Mr. R. E. Parry, wrote to the chairman of AMCAE College Council, Dr Clement W. Semmler informing the latter that on 24 July 1981, the Minister for Education, Hon. Paul Landa, established the Sydney College of Advanced Education and constituted its First Council, (Minutes of the Executive Committee of College Council, 9 November, 1981, SG 002 or Item no. 86/001 & 87/116). Sydney College of Advanced Education Regulation, 1981 was the delegated legislation to the Higher Education Act, 1975, no. 40, which created the corporate entity known as the Sydney College of Advanced Education. Under the terms of the Regulation, AMCAE was reconstituted into two separate institutes, St George Institute of Education and City Art Institute and incorporated into the new Sydney College of Advanced Education. The new structure came into effect from 1 January 1982 and so AMCAE ceased to exist from this date.
Related archives
Related to: SERIES984: Calendar Handbook of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES985: Annual Reports of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES1935: Chimaera Student Newspaper of the Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES1963: Official Administrative Files of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES1965: Official Administrative Files of the City Art Institute (CAI) / College of Fine Arts (COFA) Related to: SERIES1994: Minutes, Agendas & Papers of the Diploma in Art Education Programme / Art Education Programme Committee of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES1995: Minutes, Agendas & Papers of the Board of Studies, School of Art / City Campus of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES1996: Mackie Notes News Sheet of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES2006: Staff Listings of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES2007: Report on Counselling at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES2008: Thoughts on Education Publication by Clive Monk, Chair of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES2607: Concert Programmes of the Music Society / Secondary Music Students' Association of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2608: Graduation Programmes of Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES2610: Outlook Literary Magazine of the Writers' Group of Alexander Mackie College / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2611: Lumen Student Newspaper of the Student Representative Councils of Sydney, Balmain and Alexander Mackie Teachers' College Related to: SERIES2703: Exhibition Booklet / Leaflet Collection of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery Related to: SERIES2787: Sample Testamurs of the University of New South Wales, Alexander Mackie College, City Art Institute and St George Institute of Education Related to: SERIES2885: Agenda, Minutes & Papers of the College Community Committee, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2890: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Academic Board of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2891: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Admissions, Progressions & Exclusions Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2892: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Higher Degree Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2893: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Academic Calendar and Timetable Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2895: Minutes of the Graduation Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2896: Draft Terms of Reference for the Discipline Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2901: Records of the College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2902: Staff Newsletters, Bulletins, Circulars - Alexander Mackie College / School of Teacher Education / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2903: Course Submissions / Proposals - Alexander Mackie College / Sydney College of Advanced Education / St George Institute of Education Related to: SERIES2906: Official Opening of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2908: Minutes of College Assemblies and Assembly Addresses, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2909: Land Title documents for Albion Avenue, site of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2911: Service Programs for Alexander Mackie College Christian Fellowship, Paddington Methodist Church Related to: SERIES2914: Programs of Inter-collegiate Sports and Athletics of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2923: Plans, Specifications and Drawings of Oatley Campus, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2924: Leases for Commonwealth Street and Flinders Street Campuses, Alexander Mackie College of Advanded Education Related to: SERIES2925: Albion Avenue Campus Site Planning Report of the Alexander Mackie College of Advance Education Related to: SERIES2926: Delegations of Authority of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2927: Student Services - Monthly Checklist of Activities / Student Services Branch of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2928: Handbook of Accounting Procedures of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2929: Portfolio of Documents of the Reconstituted College Council of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2930: File on the Level of Appointment of the Deans of the School of Teacher Education, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2938: An Illustrated Dictionary of Art Terms Compiled by B. Ed. Art Students of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2943: Students Representative Council - Orientation News, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2945: Art Collection Catalogue of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2948: Membership Lists of Committees of the School of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2951: Programme/Course Information Booklet for the Diploma in Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2954: Southern Metropolitan Region Report, Prepared by Annette van den Bosch and Commissioned by the Principal, Dr Ralph W. Rawlinson, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2956: Information Booklet on Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Prepared in Connection with the Visit of Members of the Tertiary Education Commission / Advanced Education Council Related to: SERIES2957: Roll and Lists of Students - Office of the College Secretary, H. Roberts, Returning Officer of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2959: Material Relating to Staffing Matters of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2961: Course Outlines of the Alexander Mackie Teachers College Related to: SERIES2963: Letters of Offer sent by the Admissions Committee, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2964: Promotions and Accelerated Progression Papers of the Teaching Staff, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2967: Academic Record Statements of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2971: Minutes of Staff Meetings of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2972: Student Identification Card of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2977: Copies of the Colleges of Advanced Education Act, 1975 - Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education By-Law and the Sydney Teachers College By-Law Related to: SERIES2980: Orientation Programmes of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education and the St George Institute of Education Related to: SERIES2981: Welcome To AMC Programme, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2983: Logo Die of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2843: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the College Council of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2883: Minutes & Papers of the Executive Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2884: Agenda, Minutes & Papers of the Education Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2886: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Personnel Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2887: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Building and Grounds Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2888: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Buildings, Grounds and Finance Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2889: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Finance Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2894: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Publications and Public Relations Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2897: Minutes of the School of Teacher Education Committee, Board of Studies of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2898: Minutes of the Service and Structure Committee of the Division of General & Community Studies of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2899: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Special Projects Committee, Diploma in Art Education, School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2900: Minutes of the Special Projects Committee: Diploma in Art Education, Student Services and Extension Courses, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2904: Course Development and Proposal Working Files - Alexander Mackie College Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2905: Minutes of Staff Meetings of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2910: Correspondence on the origins of the emblem / insignia of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2912: Examination Files of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2913: Records on the Establishment of Mackie Library, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2915: AM Newsletter, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2916: School of Art Prospectus, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2917: Student Guide, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2918: Going Places booklet, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2919: Course Programme / Course Information, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2920: Enrolment Forms, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2921: Lecture Notes of College Secretary of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Harley Roberts(?) Related to: SERIES2922: Dramatic Performances Programmes, Student Theatre - Alexander Mackie College / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2931: By-Law and Proposed By-Law of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2932: Review of Support Services and Procedures of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2933: Material Relating to the Butland Committee Report - Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Response Related to: SERIES2935: Exhibition Catalogue of Students' Work, of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2936: Publications of the School and Community Mathematics Project of the School of Teacher Education, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2937: Selected Papers in Special Education - Occasional Papers No. 2 of the School of Teacher Education, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2939: Brochure of the Document Reproduction, Printing and Publications Centre, Located at the Commonwealth St. Campus of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2940: Oatley Fitness Centre Information Brochure, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2941: Teaching and Curriculum Resource Series of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, and St George Institute of Education (SGIE), Sydney College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2944: College Rules of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2946: Minutes and Agenda Papers of the Resources Centre Advisory Committee, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2947: Minutes of the Management Meetings of Senior Administrative Staff of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2949: Teaching Practice Resources of the School of Teacher Education, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2950: T.E.A.M. Newsletter of the Teacher Education Advisory Office of the NSW Dept. of Education, located at Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2952: Photographic Booklet About The Art School of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2955: Manual on Programme Development of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2958: Maps Showing City Campus Locations of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2960: College Practice Teaching Reports and Records of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2962: File of the Student Committee of the School of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2966: Examination and Classification Schedules and Results of the School of Art and School of Teacher Education, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2968: Auditor's Report for the Student Union of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2969: Information Leaflet for the School of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2974: Manual of Procedures - Phillips P320 Payroll of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2976: Report to the Principal on Acquisition of Works of Art and other Working Papers - Advisory Committee on Works of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2978: Report: Plannning for Movement, of the Oatley Campus, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2979: Library Guide of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES1712: Subject Reference Files Relating to the Alexander Mackie College, City Art Institute and College of Fine Arts from the Office of the Director CAI and Dean of COFA, Ken Reinhard Related to: SERIES3047: Class Photographs of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Is superseded by: AGENCY569: St George Institute of Education (SGIE), Sydney College of Advanced Education Is superseded by: AGENCY570: City Art Institute (CAI), Sydney College of Advanced Education (1982-1987) / City Art Institute, New South Wales Institute of the Arts (NSWIA) (1987-1989)
