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1810
Schools were established and managed by churches with government grants, no universal education system -
Period: to
Change in Education
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1866
Public Schools Act was introduced to provide administration of education under one government body -
1872
The Education Act of 1872 provided for free, secular and compulsory education -
1880
By this point in time education was under bureaucratic control -
Late 1880s
In the late 1880s there were only 5 high schools in NSW. It was only in the early 1900s that it started to develop -
1890
In 1890 there were 1400 students across 3 universities