Swinburne Institute of Technology

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Swinburne Institute of Technology began as a division of the company Swinburne College of Technology Limited in 1975. Swinburne had been incorporated under s.24 of the Companies Act 1961 (Act No. 6839), and in 1973 a working party was established to determine the most appropriate form of incorporation. The working party's report, released in 1975 resolved to revoke the previous licence and set up two divisions of the company, VA 1192 Swinburne Institute of Technology and VA 4668 Swinburne College of TAFE. The licence was officially revoked on 4th April 1975, and the working party's resolutions were put into effect on 14th April 1975. From 1975, these two divisions were administered separately.

Arising from the martin Report 1965, the Federal Government introduced matching financial grants to colleges of Advanced Education. The Victoria Institute of Colleges (VA 571) was established and Swinburne Institute of Technology became an affiliated college.

This form of funding for tertiary education necessitated a separation of tertiary from non-tertiary courses. This separation was reflected in the structure of Swinburne College of Technology (VA 1217), prompting it to divide into a Higher Education and TAFE division

Swinburne Institute of Technology incorporated the Higher Education division of the former Swinburne College of Technology. After an extensive reorganisation of Victorian Advanced Education, which saw the Victorian Institute of Colleges replaced by the Victorian Post-Secondary Education Commission, the Council of Swinburne Institute of Technology were given the power to grant bachelor degrees. The first of these was awarded in 1981 on Thursday 21st of May at a conferring ceremony held at the Camberwell Civic Centre. Before this time, bachelor degrees for students who studied at Swinburne Institute of Technology were conferred, along with students of other institutions, as part of Victoria Institute of Colleges degree conferring ceremonies.

Swinburne Institute of Technology merged with Swinburne College of Technical And Further Education (VA 4668) and Prahran College of TAFE as a result of the Swinburne University of Technology Act 1992 (Act No. 44).