In this section you’ll find stories and anecdotes from graduates, teachers, staff, industry partners… people whose lives have been touched by Sydney Institute over the last 120 years.
Whether you know it as Sydney Tech, Sydney TAFE, East Sydney, STC or Sydney Institute, if you have your own story to tell – share it with us here.
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Dear Share Your Story,
In January 1950 I was the first new Australian student enrolled in the Diploma Metallurgy Course in Ultimo Tech. Having arrived in Australia in June 1949 from post war Europe, I did not speak English well.
Dear Share Your Story,
I studied at Sydney Technical College in Ultimo in 1951, attending the “Day Secretarial Course”, then enrolling to study for the Leaving Certificate at Pyrmont “campus”(it was actually an old disused primary school in John St) five nights a week for two years, 1952 and 1953. These three years were of utmost importance to me, and Sydney Technical College made it possible for me to continue an education. I went on to become a teacher myself, and a School Principal.
Dear Share Your Story,
I started work as a teenager at Woodhill’s General Store in the then country town of Richmond NSW, as a shop assistant in the Menswear Department.
Dear Share Your Story,
I started the ASTC Diploma (Mechanical Engineering) in 1946 and had a bad first year for several reasons. One, I think, was that I had floated through the Leaving Certificate fairly effortlessly and that gave me a poor idea of studying-to-understand. Second, and this was the real self-imposed problem, I was accepted for apprenticeship to metal trades which meant starting a Trades Course also at the beginning of 1946, the two were not compatible with each other, I passed the first year of the latter and failed, if I remember correctly, many of the ASTC subjects. So in 1947 I stuck with the Trades Course, and finished that at the end of 1948.
