New South Wales Institute of Technology

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English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2025-10-07 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007876b.htm corporateBody New South Wales Institute of Technology AACR2 1964 26 January 1988 Start Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Technical College The New South Wales Institute of Technology (NSWIT)was established in 1964 under an enabling Act passed by the New South Wales Parliament in 1940 to set up an Institution of Technology. Predecessors of the NSWIT included the Sydney Mechanics' School of Art, and the Working Men's College which was re-formed into the Sydney Technical College. In 1968 the NSWIT amalgamated with the New South Wales Institute of Business Studies: the law school, the first in Australia outside the university sector, was founded in 1976. NSWIT was granted university status under theUniversity of Technology, Sydney, Act of 1987. On 26 January 1988, the NSWIT formally became the University of Technology Sydney. Thornton, Barry Stephen (1930 - 2021)

Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences 1973 - 1977 and 1982 - 1987

University of Technology Sydney (1988 - ) 'New South Wales Institute of Technology', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology New South Wales Institute of Technology Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation