Victoria College (now Victoria University of Wellington) was founded in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee. Until the opening of the Kelburn building in 1906, classes were taught in rented rooms.
Universities
Events In History
3 June 1869
Governor George Bowen gave his assent to the Otago Provincial Council’s University of Otago Ordinance, enabling the establishment of New Zealand’s first university.
Women Together
Graduate Women New Zealand
By 1993 the New Zealand Federation of University Women (NZFUW) had been offering intellectual stimulation and friendship to graduate women for over 70 years. Read the full Women Together Essay
Society for Research on Women in New Zealand
The principal aim of the Society for Research on Women in New Zealand was to research topics concerning women. Read the full Women Together Essay
Biographies
On 11 July 1877 Kate Edger (Evans) graduated with a BA in Latin and Mathematics from the University of New Zealand. She became the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA
Margaret Cruickshank was the first woman to be registered as a doctor in New Zealand. She worked tirelessly during the 1918 influenza pandemic but eventually caught the disease herself and died on 28 November 1918.
Main image: Student guard of honour for Lord Bledisloe
Massey Agricultural College students treat Lord Bledisloe to their version of a guard of honour
