Extension Board (The University of Melbourne)

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Agent TypeOrganisationHistoryThe Extension Board had first been proposed in the council in February 1890 by H.B. Higgins, then a barrister, who moved that popular lectures and classes be established in the Victorian country towns based on the style of the extension schemes which had become effective in the English universities in the preceeding century. At the close of 1890 a committee of coucil reported favourably on the scheme. It was Professor Edward Jenks, the Chair of Law and formerly an extension lecturer at Cambridge who was particularly enthusiastic and acted as first secretary of the University Extension Board in 1891. The first year groups in the suburbs and country towns could choose a course of lectures from one of the nineteen speakers in a range of subjects, and their members could earn a certificate by passing an examination at the end of the year.

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Extension Board (The University of Melbourne)