University Of Ballarat

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University of Ballarat

Tagline	Dare to be Different
Established	1994
Type	Public
Vice-Chancellor	Prof David Battersby
Staff	260
Students	22,000 (5,000 HE; 17,000 TAFE)
Location	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Affiliations	New Generation Universities (NGU)
Website	[1]

The University of Ballarat is a dual-sector university in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It was formed by the passage of an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1994, from the Ballarat College of Advanced Education. It subsequently merged with the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries and the Horsham based Wimmera Institute of TAFE in 1998 to create a larger University.

It has a total student population of approximately 22,000 consisting of c. 5,000 Higher Education students and c. 17,000 Technical and Further Education (TAFE) students.

History

Heritage buildings and former Ballarat Gaol at the School of Mines and Industry. Lydiard Street, Ballarat CBD

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The University of Ballarat has a long history that goes back to the famous gold rush era of the 1850s. Tertiary education at Ballarat began with the establishment of the School of Mines and Industries in 1870 making it Australia's third oldest tertiary institution. It is for this reason that the 1870 Founders Hall at the University of Ballarat came into existence.

People such as Redmond Barry were involved in the original establishment to create an institution of equivalent standing to a university to offer degree level courses at Ballarat.

The School of Mines had two divisions - a tertiary division and a technical division. The tertiary division provided higher education courses such as mining engineering, geology, education and business studies, while the technical division provided technical programs such as wool classing, plumbing and bricklaying.

The organisation remained in that form until the 1960s when it was split into two institutions. The School of Mines remained intact offering technical and secondary level programs, while the tertiary division became Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education. In the 1970s it was renamed Ballarat College of Advanced Education.

In the late 1980s the Dawkins Revolution had arrived and Ballarat CAE was in trouble in terms of losing its long historical identity. In an era where larger metropolitan colleges were opting for mergers with existing universities, such as Chisholm Institute of Technology with Monash University, Melbourne College of Advanced Education with Melbourne University, Philip Institute of Technology with RMIT University, Lincoln Institute of Health Science and Bendigo College of Advanced Education with La Trobe University, and Victoria College and Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education with Geelong's Deakin University, Ballarat was faced with the prospects of merging with Deakin University, an option the board of Ballarat CAE did not want to accept arguing in the words of the then director Professor John Sharpham who publicly declared that "Deakin is not strong" and who attempted to arrange a merger of "equal sides" where Ballarat CAE, Warrnambool IAE, and Deakin would merge to become the University of Western Victoria. Under this arrangement, Ballarat would get 50% of voting power, with Geelong and Warrnambool the other 50%.

The proposal was rejected by Deakin, which left Ballarat alone as the remaining college in Victoria not to become a university. Then along came the University of Melbourne which allowed Ballarat CAE to become an affiliated college of the University. The name of Ballarat CAE was changed to "Ballarat University College, an affiliated College of the University of Melbourne" which are the actual words put on graduates' testimurs. At this point it seemed that BUC was heading to become the Ballarat campus of Melbourne University which would have given it a sizable rural campus in Western Victoria. However this did not eventuate with some critics suggesting that it was too prestigious.

Ballarat University College then pursued the push to become a fully-fledged university in its own right. This began when Professor John Sharpham asked the board of BUC, that if Southern Cross University is allowed to divorce the University of New England by becoming a university in its own right, then Ballarat should be allowed to do the same. This led to lobbying efforts to the Federal Government which responded by sending three Vice-Chancellors (incidentally one from University of New England) from Australian Universities to Ballarat to consider whether Ballarat could become a university in its own right. The result was favorable and the university college became a university in 1994 without any links to Melbourne University except that Melbourne would observe the academic standards at the new university for a five-year period.

Upon creation of the university, the announcement by the Foundation Chancellor Professor Geoffrey Blainey of the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of University of Ballarat proved controversial with Professor Sharpham being overlooked in favour of Professor David James (incidentally Deakin University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor!).

Status and rankings

For a young and small higher education institution, University of Ballarat did well in the 2007 edition of the Good Universities Guide scoring a total of 10 stars out of 20 in the status and standing section for the university. It scored 4/5 for research intensivity, 3/5 for non-government earnings, 1/5 for student demand and 2/5 for research grants. This puts the University of Ballarat on par with LaTrobe University's 10/20, and ahead of Victoria University's 8/20. Source: Hobsons Guides, The Good Universities Guide, 2007 edition.

In terms of its research intensivity score of 4/5, Ballarat equalled Monash University and Swinburne University of Technology, and outscored RMIT University 3/5, Deakin University 2/5, LaTrobe University 2/5, and Victoria University 1/5. Source: Hobsons Guides, The Good Universities Guide, 2007 edition.

The University of Ballarat's teaching performance was ranked in the top ten of Australian universities according to data released by the Federal Department of Education, Science and Training in 2005. Melbourne Institute Rankings.

Technology Park

The university has a technology park with the mission to facilitate the development of technology based companies or companies that benefit from the technological resources of the university.

The following organisations are current organisations that are operating from the park.

IBM South East Asia
IBM Regional Software Solutions Centre
Greenhill Enterprise Centre
Rural Ambulance Victoria
State Revenue Office
Conservation Volunteers
Global Innovation Centre
ID Research
Emergency Services Telecommunication

Research

The university has an active research program in place. For example the School of Mathematics is engaged in research that looks at optimising space in buildings. This is being done through the The Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization (CIAO).

Research Institutes

Institute for Regional and Rural Research and Innovation. The Insitute is a research organisation that focuses on rural and regional issues.

Campuses

The University has six campuses; three in Ballarat, one each in Ararat, Horsham and Stawell.

Ballarat

Camp Street Campus
Mount Helen Campus
SMB Campus (incorporates the old School of Mines Ballarat and old Ballaraat Gaol)

Western Victoria

Ararat Campus (offers TAFE courses)
Horsham Campus (offers TAFE courses and a Higher Education course in Nursing)
Stawell Campus (offers TAFE courses)

Mount Helen campus

The main Ballarat campus is located in Mount Helen, an area of beautiful natural bushland. It contains 2 residences, Peter Lalor Hall and Bella Guerin Hall, and contains the following schools:

Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities
Business
Education
Human Movement and Sport Sciences
Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences
Nursing
Science and Engineering

Camp Street Arts Academy

The Camp Street Campus is the newest of the University of Ballarat's 6 campuses. Bordered by Camp Street, Sturt Street and Lydiard Street, this campus houses the University of Ballarat's Arts Academy. The campus consists the Old Post Office Building, the Old Courthouse building, and several new buildings which were completed in 2002. Notable staff at the Arts Academy, Peter Pilven (Ceramicist) Anne Saunders (Painter and Print maker) and Doug Wright (Painter) ^[2].

Student Association

Students are represented by the University of Ballarat Student Association (UBSA) and the University of Ballarat Postgraduate Association.

Notable alumni

Jack Adam, Mining Engineer:Graduated 1905 Ballarat School of Mines
Steve Bracks, Former Premier of Victoria, Australia: Dip Bus.
Ash Lieb Artist: BA Visual Arts
Steve Moneghetti, Olympic Marathon Runner: BEng

Honorary graduates

Jeff Kennett, Former Premier of Victoria: Hon DBus (Honoris Causa)

External links

University of Ballarat – official website
Ballarat & Clarendon College - official website
Ballarat Secondary College - official website

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