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By Craig Campbell, Geoffrey Sherington
The heritage and present practices for college structures within the nations of the Oceanic sector depend upon the commercial, political, and cultural situations in their nations. Divided into 4 chronological sections — pre nineteeth century, 19th century, 20th century and current occasions — every one bankruptcy lines the criteria that experience impacted academic philosophy and ambitions for every state. settling on to be had techniques for college students of all monetary backgrounds, every one bankruptcy additionally contains a Day within the existence characteristic that stocks with readers what a standard scholar in that kingdom will event at their school.; Australia ; Fiji ; New Zealand ; Papua New Guinea ; Samoa
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Its first headmaster was Charles Pearson, sometime professor of history at King’s College, London, and advocate for the higher education of women. The argument is that this school was the first to take the academic education of the middle-class girl seriously, introducing classical as well as modern languages, mathematics, and eventually the sciences into the curriculum core. However, we have already seen that this claim was too ambitious, given the work of some of the private girls’ schools. ’’ Moreover, as was the case of similar girls’ collegiate 28 GOING TO SCHOOL IN OCEANIA schools that had emerged in England in the second half of the nineteenth century, the educational ideology did little to challenge women’s roles in the family, labor market, and society in general.
In each of the colonies, great technical colleges were established, sometimes with branches in the largest of colonial rural towns, such as Ballarat or Bendigo in Victoria. They offered day and evening classes and rewarded their graduates with a certificates and diplomas. Engineering, dressmaking, technical drawing, boat-building, bookkeeping, and mechanics—all of these and dozens more subjects provided SCHOOLING IN AUSTRALIA 35 self-improvement opportunities to ‘‘go-ahead’’ young men and women in industry and commerce.
In both colonies, such schools also offered a postelementary curriculum in order to support the pupil teachers being trained to become teachers in the public schools. 23 In New South Wales, there would be a very different approach, where some public schools would become Superior Public Schools, and they would provide opportunities not only for middle class children but also for some working-class children to gain the certificates 22 GOING TO SCHOOL IN OCEANIA earned by public examination success.