Gilbert Chandler College

Last updated

The Gilbert Chandler College was a higher education institution in Werribee, Victoria, Australia. It was a standalone institution from 1939 to 1981, a college of the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture from 1983 to 1997, and a campus of the University of Melbourne from 1997 to 2005. The site was later used as a campus of the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE until 2020.

It was established in 1939 as the Department of Agriculture-run School of Dairy Technology. Student accommodation was built at the campus in 1964-65. [1] [2]

It was renamed the Gilbert Chandler Institute of Dairy Technology (after state Minister for Agriculture Gilbert Chandler) in 1967 as part of a significant expansion of facilities in 1965-68, which included a modern dairy factory with facilities for "milk and cream receival, milk pasteurising and bottling, cheesemaking, buttermaking, milk concentrating and drying, with casein and laboratory sections". [1] [2]

In 1981, the teaching section became the Gilbert Chandler College of Dairy Technology under the broader Gilbert Chandler Institute, and later the same year was proclaimed an agricultural college. It became part of the new Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture in 1983, along with the state's other agricultural colleges, becoming VCAH's Gilbert Chandler Campus. Course offerings expanded throughout the 1980s, with degree courses offered, additional facilities constructed, including a new library, and course offerings dramatically overhauled again in the early 1990s. [1] [2] [3]

In 1997, VCAH amalgamated with the University of Melbourne, and it became the Gilbert Chandler Campus of the university as part of the Institute of Land and Food Resources. It It assumed a broader food manufacturing focus during its time as part of the University of Melbourne. [4] [5] [2] At its closure, the campus offered undergraduate degrees, postgraduate certificates and diplomas and PhD and masters programs in food science. [6]

The University of Melbourne ceased operating agricultural courses at the campus at the end of 2005. It terminated its lease and transferred the campus back to the state Government in 2007. [7] [8]

The campus was subsequently leased by the state government to the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE (GOTAFE), becoming its Werribee campus and dropping the Gilbert Chandler name. GOTAFE again adopted a focus on dairy processing qualifications, providing certificate to advanced diploma courses in partnership with the National Centre for Dairy Education. The GOTAFE campus closed at the end of 2020. [3] [9]

Related Research Articles

Technical and further education or simply TAFE is the common name in Australia for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses. Colloquially also known as "Tech".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victoria University (Australia)</span> Dual-sector public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Victoria University is an Australian public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It is a dual-sector university, providing courses in both higher education and technical and further education (TAFE).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">La Trobe University</span> Public university in Melbourne, Australia

La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria and the twelfth university in Australia. La Trobe is one of the Australian verdant universities and also part of the Innovative Research Universities group.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Swinburne University of Technology</span> Public university in Hawthorn, Australia

The Swinburne University of Technology is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne Technical College in 1913 after its co-founders George and Ethel Swinburne. It has three campuses in metropolitan Melbourne: Hawthorn, where its main campus is located; Wantirna; and Croydon, as well the Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It also offers courses online and through its partnered institutions in Australia and overseas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lilydale, Victoria</span> Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lilydale is an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Lilydale recorded a population of 17,348 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Werribee, Victoria</span> Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Werribee is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 32 km (20 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the local government area of the City of Wyndham. Werribee recorded a population of 50,027 at the 2021 census.

The College of Advanced Education (CAE) was a class of Australian tertiary education institution that existed from 1967 until the early 1990s. They ranked below universities, but above Colleges of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) which offer trade qualification. CAEs were designed to provide formal post-secondary qualifications of a more vocational nature than those available from universities, chiefly in such areas as teaching, nursing, accountancy, fine art and information technology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lindsay Falvey</span>

John Lindsay Falvey is an Australian-born international R&D specialist and writes on topics concerning agricultural science and philosophy, religion, international development and spiritual development. He has been Chair of the Board of Trustees the CGIAR Consortium member, the International Livestock Research Institute from 2013, and is a life member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. He continues as an Honorary Professor, having retired as a professor at the University of Melbourne where he was Chair of Agriculture, Dean of Land and Food Resources and Dean of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture.

The Victorian College of Agriculture & Horticulture, abbreviated VCAH, was a grouping of the agricultural colleges of the State of Victoria in Australia. Formed in 1983, it was later incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 1991. It provided a coordinated framework for the five colleges of Burnley (1891), Dookie (1886), Gilbert Chandler (1939), Glenormiston (1971) and Longerenong (1889), and the McMillan Rural Studies Centre (1977) to form a single institution. Separation from the Victorian Department of Agriculture had been a dream for decades and in becoming a reality created an innovative and flexible institution which enlivened Victorian agricultural education, creating real competition with the two university providers.

Melbourne Polytechnic, formerly NMIT, is an institute of higher education and vocational education (TAFE) located in Melbourne, Australia that has been operating since around 1910.

Victoria College was a College of Advanced Education (CAE) in Melbourne, Australia, most of which became part of Deakin University in January 1992. The Burwood, Toorak, and dual-location Rusden campuses merged with Deakin, while the Prahran campus, along with Prahran College of TAFE, were absorbed by Swinburne Institute of Technology. At its foundation in 1981, it was primarily a teachers college. At its end, it had a diverse range of courses in a broad range of subjects.

Burnley College, Melbourne, Australia, is one of the oldest Colleges in the country and it specialises in horticulture.

Skills Victoria is the Victorian Government body that oversees Victoria's independent TAFE Institutes.

Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE, also known as GOTAFE, GOTAFE is the largest vocational education provider in regional Victoria. Offering over 130 courses across eight campuses, GOTAFE services 11 local government areas with an estimated resident population of over 240,000 people.

Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler KBE, CMG was a Liberal Party politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria.

Technical Education Centres (TEC) are purpose built centres for the delivery of practical secondary school and vocational education programs on a TAFE campus in the state of Victoria, Australia. They aim to attract young people 16–19 years of age to provide trade skills training while they complete a secondary school certificate. Each TEC is administered by the TAFE Institute it is a part of.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scotland's Rural College</span> Public land based research institution in Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotland's Rural College is a public land based research institution focused on agriculture and life sciences. Its history stretches back to 1899 with the establishment of the West of Scotland Agricultural College and its current organisation came into being through a merger of smaller institutions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prahran campus of Melbourne Polytechnic</span>

Prahran Campus of Melbourne Polytechnic was established in 2013 as a hybrid educational organisation developed and administered by Melbourne Polytechnic when it was known as Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), offering vocational education courses encompassing Certificate, Diploma, Advanced Diploma levels and Bachelor degrees at Prahran campus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Perrott Lyon Mathieson</span> Australian architecture firm

Perrott Lyon Mathieson was an Australian architecture firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by Leslie M Perrott in 1914, the firm was responsible for numerous high-profile projects from the 1920s to the 1990s, and was associated with the Perrott and Lyon architectural families, spanning three generations and eight practitioners.

The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences (FVAS) was a faculty of the University of Melbourne until it was disestablished on 1 January 2023. The two schools merged into the Faculty of Science. The faculty was a medium sized faculty for undergraduate education and academic research into economically and medically important fields related to agriculture and veterinary science, such as agronomy, biosecurity, environment, food security, food science, parasitology, pest control, veterinary virology, zoonotic diseases, etc.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Falvey, Lindsay & Bardsley, Barrie (2005). Agricultural and related education in the Victorian colleges and the University of Melbourne. University of Melbourne. pp. 139–154. Archived from the original on 2010-07-06.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 "History of Gilbert Chandler Campus". University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 2006-09-18. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Review of Victorian Agriculture Colleges" (PDF). Acil Allen Consulting. 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture (1983 - 1997)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Gilbert Chandler Institute". Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Gilbert Chandler Campus". University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  7. ↑ "University commits to consultation on future delivery of VET courses in agriculture". University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 2005-09-26. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "2009 Annual Report". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  9. ↑ "Annual Report 2020" (PDF). GOTAFE. Retrieved 27 June 2022.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.