week 2- Brief history of ANU

By the 1900 there was statements made for the introduction of a National University of Australia that was to have a research orientation. The first steps of establishing the ANU first began in the early years of the first twentieth century.


 The area for the campus was chosen to be placed at the base of black mountain, by Walter Burley Griffin. David Rivett made the first detailed case for a research based university, later he was appointed head of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) which later became the (CSRIO). 


Tertiary education was formalized in 1929 with the establishment of Canberra University Collage (CUC). The center was loosely affiliated with Melbourne University. The aim was to provide Canberra undergraduate students with education, it took its first students in 1930. In August the 1st 1945 the Australian government passed the Australia National University.

Ariel view of the southwest area of the campus

1953

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