Dr Deborah Towns OAM, together with John Andrews, wrote the key history of Victoria’s high schools. Their book is called A Secondary Education for All: A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria.
The extracts below come from her essays on individual schools in that book.
Profile: Bacchus Marsh Primary School
The story of Victoria’s oldest continuing public school, founded in 1850.
Profile: Bairnsdale Secondary College
How one of the first high schools grew into East Gippsland’s biggest secondary college.
Profile: Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College
A leading girls’ school with nearly 170 years of continuous learning.
Profile: Melbourne High School
How the school founded in 1905 came to be Victoria’s only boys’ select-entry high school.
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