VPRS 10536 Central Inward Teachers Colleges Correspondence

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The Education Department (VA 714) conducted a number of Teachers Training Colleges in both Melbourne and provincial centres. These Colleges trained primary, secondary and specialist teachers for service in schools. In a number of locations, hostels were conducted for the accommodation of students these being administered by each Teachers' College.

This series contains correspondence received by the Department from these Colleges. Some correspondence was registered upon reception, but portion of it was not. Correspondence is from both college authorities and students.

Subjects dealt with include the employment of persons, lists of students, the grades and classifications of exit students, matters to do with the supply of requisites and goods for colleges and hostels, accident claims and injury reports, applications for allowances, reports including special reports on specific students, complaints forwarded to the college by members of the community and correspondence regarding breaches of studentship agreements.