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The Gordon provides education to more than 13,500 students annually and, with more than 500 staff members, it is one of the largest employers in
Geelong. The Gordon offers over 350 courses across several campuses located in Geelong City, East Geelong, Werribee and Hoppers Crossing. Sixty percent
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1927 saw the first buildings at the
Moorabool Street campus built and, in 1941, the trade workshops were the first college buildings erected on the Latrobe Terrace side of the railway line. The 1960s saw the first of the modern multi-storey buildings built on the site.
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was laid. Opened in 1987, it contained copies of
Geelong and Melbourne newspapers of the time, as well as reports from the Geelong City Council. The northern Fenwick Street building was added in 1916, and the Hitchcock art studio in 1910.
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Kardinia was the annual magazine of
Geelong Teachers' College (G.T.C.). Opened on 31st January 1950 by Mr G. A. Osborne, G.T.C. was operational until April 1, 1977, when it officially became the School of Education, Deakin
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Institute of Technology's higher education courses and Waurn Ponds site with the State College of Victoria at Geelong, previously
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The foundation stone for the first building, Davidson Hall, was laid in July 1887. The land selected for the school was originally part of
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The Gordon
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area. The Gordon opened in 1887 and celebrated 130 years of providing education in 2017.
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