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Produced and published by the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
Published July 2008
Published July 2008
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This teacher education institution grew out of the Associated Teachers Training Institute (ATTI) founded by the Incorporated Associated Registered Teachers of Victoria in 1921 for fee-paying part-time trainee teachers for the independent schools. This 'back door' into teaching required satisfactory paid teaching in a registered school and a pass in a very basic theoretical course. In 1946 the ATTI moved from the city to Mercer House, Mercer Road, Malvern. Recognition of primary, junior and secondary courses for Commonwealth scholarships, art and craft, domestic science courses and a remedial teaching centre followed. Mercer House was absorbed into Toorak Teachers College (now Deakin University, Toorak) in 1975.