Key Documents
Use Annual reports and Reports by Inspectors, Records of Royal Commissions to find key information relating to school districts, standards, curriculum and educational change.
Note that annual reports can be difficult to track because of organizational name changes.
The reports listed below are mostly held in off-site storage. Access can be organised by using the library catalogue 'request' button and completing the form data.
- Report of the Commissioners of National Education for the Colony of Victoria. byCall Number: UniM Store AB f 370.9945 VICT 1860-62Publication Date: 1861/62
- Report of the Board of Education. byCall Number: UniM Bund 354.94500851 VICTPublication Date: 1863-1872
- Report of the Minister of Public Instruction. byCall Number: UniM Bund 354.94500851 VICTPublication Date: Melbourne : The Dept., 1873-1949.
- Report of the Minister of Education for the year ... byCall Number: UniM Bund 354.94500851 VICTPublication Date: 1948/49-1974/1975.
- Annual report / Education Department of Victoria. byCall Number: UniM Bund P 354.94500851 VICTPublication Date: 1977-1985
- Select documents in Australian education, 1788-1900 byCall Number: UniM Giblin Eunson 370.994 AUSPublication Date: 1963
- Report of the Minister of Education and the Minister of Special Education. byCall Number: UniM Bund 354.94500851 VICT : 1975/76Publication Date: 1975-1976-1976-1977.
Review of Australian Curriculum Policies 1975-2005
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The project School knowledge, working knowledge and the knowing subject: a review of state curriculum policies 1975-2005 was lead by Professor Lyn Yates and funded as a Discovery Project by the Australian Research Council for 2007 and 2008, and supplemented by further funding from the University of Melbourne through 2009. This is an important source of information because it identifies and analyses key curriculum documents that have shaped secondary schooling.
Curriculum Resources
- Chronologies of Secondary School Curriculum Policy
- Curriculum Policy and Major Education Reports
- The Political Context includes list of Ministers of Education by State
- Australian Curriculum Theses
- Case Study Analysis
- Subject-based Journal Contents
- Australian Curriculum Trajectory
- State Differences
- Publication List
Royal Commissions
- Royal Commission on Public Education 1867 byCall Number: UniM Bund 379.945 VIC
- Royal Commission on Technical Education 1899-1901. byCall Number: UniM Bund 371.426 VIC
- Report of the Committee on State Education in Victoria. byPublication Date: UniM Store AB 379.945 V645
- An act to amend the law relating to education [17th December 1872]Call Number: UniM Store AB 379.14 VIC
- Ministerial Review of Post compulsory Schooling (Blackburn Report) – 1985Recommends the introduction of a single two year certificate marking the end of secondary schooling to be called the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).
- New South Wales. Committee Appointed to Survey Secondary Education in New South Wales (1957) Report of the Committee Appointed to Survey Secondary Education in New South Wales (Wyndham Report)Encompasses proposals for a system of general secondary education of four years for all adolescents in comprehensive schools.