Sydney Teachers' College

Public dissatisfaction with the pupil-teacher system led to the establishment of a non-residential, co-educational training college in part of Blackfriars Primary School on Parramatta Road (now Broadway).

In 1910 he also became Professor of Education and Principal of the Teachers' College (positions held also by his successor, Christopher R. McRae).

[citation needed] An Act was passed in 1912 for construction of a new teachers' college in the grounds of the University of Sydney.

[citation needed] Welsh emigrant May Marsden was employed for the Sydney Teachers' College by Mackie as an art lecturer.

[citation needed] A short course was devised in 1938 to prepare tradesmen to teach trades within the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Public Instruction in this eventually expanded into a division within the college and later into an Institute of Sydney CAE.

But in 1954 the Enmore Annex closed and its functions were transferred to North Newtown Intermediate High School in Carillon Avenue.

Bachelor of Education course was established in 1975 for students intending to become Industrial Arts of Home Economics teachers.