History Matters: Autonomy achieved for New England university

By Jim Belshaw
April 18 2018 - 4:14pm
NSW Education Minister and later Labor Premier Robert Heffron.
NSW Education Minister and later Labor Premier Robert Heffron.

Despite progress in some areas, at the start of 1953 the New England University College was struggling to some degree. The number of students was much the same as it had been in 1948, while the dream of autonomy seemed as far off as ever.

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