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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Continent: Oceania |
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The University of Western Australia (UWA) was established in 1911 as the State's
first university. It was also the first free university in the British Empire,
actively promoting equal access to tertiary education for all social
classes.
The University was established due largely to the efforts of Sir
John Winthrop Hackett, who had a long-standing vision and passion to provide
Western Australia with a university. Proprietor and editor of The West
Australian newspaper, he chaired a Royal Commission which recommended the
establishment of a university. Later he was the founding Chancellor and
bequeathed more than £425,000 (the equivalent of more than $32 million today)
to the University.
There was consensus among legislators of the time that
the University not only be free, but also provide tertiary education of a
practical nature to help develop Western Australia's pioneering economy. At the
time of the University's foundation, Perth's population was just 121,000 and its
economy relied mostly on agricultural, pastoral and mining industries.
As
a result, the founding professorial appointments were in Agriculture, Mining and
Engineering, Geology, Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, History and Economics,
Biology and English. These were balanced to an extent by the appointment of
lecturers in Classics and Ancient History, French, German, Mental and Moral
Philosophy, and Veterinary Science. Overarching these 12 posts were three
faculties - Engineering, Science and Arts.
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http://www.uwa.edu.au |
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