Australian Technical Colleges

All 24 ATCs were integrated into existing education and training systems (state/territory government, Catholic and Anglican), with some continuing as stand-alone independent schools.

Some successful tenderers were state or territory governments, others were church groups, others were for-profit companies.

Known as St Joseph's Vocational College, this specialist Vocational Education and Training (VET) school was opened in 1979 and had paved the way for effective integration of VET courses into the inflexible NSW HSC curriculum.

Subsequently, St Joseph's Vocational College became the first and largest of the ATCs.

The program was shut down by the Rudd Government in 2008 in favour of the Trade Training Centre (TTC) scheme.