Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsPreamble
Swinburne University of Technology has its origins in the establishment of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College in 1908.
In 1913, the institution changed its name to Swinburne Technical College to commemorate its founder, businessman, politician and philanthropist, the Honourable George Swinburne.
From these origins as a local provider of technical education, Swinburne has grown into a multidisciplined, multicampus provider of tertiary education and a research institution of national and international significance.
In 1965 Swinburne affiliated with the Victoria Institute of Colleges, which was established in that year by an Act of the Parliament of Victoria, to foster the development and improvement of tertiary education in technical, agricultural, commercial and other fields of learning (including the liberal arts and the humanities) in institutions other than in the universities of Victoria.
In 1978 the Victoria Institute of Colleges was dissolved and Swinburne Council was given power to grant bachelor degrees, the first of which were awarded at a conferring ceremony held on Thursday 21 May 1981.
Swinburne University of Technology was proclaimed on 1 July 1992 by the Swinburne University of Technology Act 1992 which marked not only recognition of its distinguished history but the beginning of a new period of growth and innovation for Swinburne.
In 1998, the Outer Eastern Institute of TAFE merged with Swinburne, further extending its tertiary provision.
Through the re-enactment of its Act, Swinburne University of Technology reaffirms its commitment to the provision of tertiary education programs relevant to the needs of the community, the advancement of knowledge through high quality research, its practical application and the ability to shape technological, social and economic processes, the dissemination and exploitation of the outcomes and results of research, the maintenance of close interaction with industry and the community, and its development as an institution with excellence in teaching, training, scholarship, research and other activities with emphasis on technology and its development, impact and application.
To enable Swinburne University of Technology to continue and expand its mission, it is expedient to re-enact the law relating to Swinburne University of Technology in a more modern form.
The Parliament of Victoria therefore enacts: