Sydney Technical College

The Sydney Technical College, now part of TAFE NSW, is a technical school established in 1878, that superseded the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

The college is one of Australia's oldest technical education institutions.

[3] In 1923 Mary Ellen Roberts, who had become a teacher of scientific dresscutting and making at the college in 1900, managed the transfer the courses of women's handicrafts to the East Sydney Technical College.

[4] In 1949, the New South Wales University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) was founded on the college's main site, as a separate institution, before moving to its own campus in Kensington.

[3] Sydney Technical College continued to operate, eventually becoming part of the New South Wales Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system.