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