Publication Date
6-1967
Subjects
colleges of advanced education, education systems, school administration
Abstract
Schools run by the Catholic Church in Australia have traditionally formed a loose and fragmented pattern of institutions run independently by particular parishes and religious congregations. Established late in the nineteenth century a s an alternative but parallel system to government schools, Catholic education caters for almost one fifth of the nation's student population. In maintaining their long- standing general objective of providing Catholic schooling for all Catholic pupils, Church authorities have been hard pressed to expand their school facilities sufficiently to meet the great post-war rise in enrolments. These tasks have proved beyond the resources of the individual parish and the particular religious teaching order. As a result many of the twenty-seven dioceses of the Catholic Church in Australia have in recent years set up central planning and coordinating bodies with the aim of surveying current needs and formulating projects cutting across existing parish boundaries.
Tertiary education: Growth of Colleges of Advanced Education (pp. 5-12). Tertiary education inevitably will mean different things to different people . Increasingly, however, widening social aspiration and a growing diversity of studies seem likely to make questionable the present sharp trichotomy of universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers' college institutions in Australia. Such a trend could lead to the formation within each state of planning and coordinating bodies concerned with the whole field of tertiary education and in turn to t he establishment of a similar Federal body to consult with the states on major questions of policy and development.
Recommended Citation
Fitzgerald, R. T. (1967). Centralized control for Catholic schools in Sydney, New South Wales. Quarterly Review of Australian Education, Pilot Edition. https://research.acer.edu.au/qrae/24
Copyright Statement
Copyright Australian Council for Educational Research 1967.
Place of Publication
Melbourne, Victoria
Publisher
Australian Council for Educational Research
Included in
Educational Administration and Supervision Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Leadership Commons
Comments
Digitised in 2025 from a print copy held by the ACER library.