The creation of the faculty of economics and business at the University of Sydney at the turn of the twentieth century

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The creation of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce spread over the last two centuries. Throughout its foundation, this essay will deal with the Australian society over that period from the conception of this Faculty in 1850 to its effective creation in 1907. It will also relate to broader cultural development at the time. The aim of that essay will be to understand why the creation of the faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Sydney became an essential need in the Australian society. The University of Sydney was the first one to be founded in Australia in 1850. Its objective was to provide upon "a liberal and comprehensive basis, a University which [should] be accessible to all classes and to all collegiate or academic institutions which [should] seek its affiliation" . Hence, according to the committee appointed by the Legislative Council, all classes and all denominations could get a higher education, as long as they matched the requirements to join the University.

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[...] Women had gained much power in a few years in the eighties than ever, and they would continue to improve their conditions throughout the twentieth century in the working field. Today, the University seem to gathers as many men as women and even if men are getting higher wages, the difference seem to dim little by little. Bibliography Primary Sources Calendar of the University of Sydney for the Year 1907 (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1907), p.131 Faculty of Arts: Minutes Book, 1889-1912 (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1912), pp. [...]

[...] Wood, Academic Status and Leadership in the University of Sydney, 1852-1987 (Sydney: the University of Sydney, 1990), pp.38-39 Bruce Williams, Liberal Education and Useful Knowledge: A Brief History of the University of Sydney 1850-2000. (Sydney: The Chancellor's Committee, The University of Sydney: 2002), p.12 Clifford Turney, Ursula Bygott, and Peter Chippendale, Australia's First: A History of the University of Sydney Volume 1850-1939 (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1991), p.381 Turney Clifford & al. Australia's First, p Faculty of Arts: Minutes Book, 1889-1912 (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1912), pp. 286-288 Turney Clifford & al. Australia's First, p The University of Sydney ‘Faculty History'. The University of Sydney, Australia. Last updated 25, August 2005. [...]

[...] The creation of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce took more than fifty years to get established, and a few years more to take its landmarks with its own building. Sydney inhabitants had to wait to experience a deep evolution in their ways of living and in their ways of thinking. Although businessmen were respected and highly considered before the 1890s, the middle-class society was not ready to erect a school of Economics and Commerce, maybe to be able to transmit their knowledge only within business families and not to popularise their knowledge. [...]

[...] There were two ways to study at the University of Sydney. On the one hand, a student could be enrolled in Liberal studies (Arts) Dr Woolley considered as the core of the university, and then remained in the tradition of British culture of teaching. On the other hand, a student could join one of the first four professional schools that were Law, Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and participating to the development of the country. When it started, the School of Economics was then controversial because its classes were planned to occur in the Faculty of Arts whereas it was considered as too professional to be left there. [...]

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