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The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The university was founded in its current form in 1981, although its origins trace back to the 1870s. UTS is notable for its central location as the only university with its main campuses within the Sydney CBD

Sydney central business district

The Sydney central business district is the main commercial centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It extends southwards for about 3 kilometres from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. Its north–south axis runs from Circular Quay in the north to Central railway station in...

. It is part of the Australian Technology Network

Australian Technology Network

The Australian Technology Network is a network of five universities from each mainland state of Australia, with a heritage of working closely with industry...

of universities and has the fifth largest enrolment in Sydney. UTS has been ranked 234th in the World's Top 500 universities by the Times HES (2008) and was one of two Australian Universities given A1 ratings across all major disciplines in 2007 and 2008 by the Federal Government Education department.

History

The present day University of Technology originates from the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts (the oldest Mechanics' Institute in Australia). In the 1870s the SMSA formed the Workingman's College which was later taken over by the NSW government to form, in 1878, the Sydney Technical College. In 1969, part of the Sydney Technical College became the New South Wales Institute of Technology (NSWIT). It was officially unveiled by Neville Wran

Neville Wran

Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986...

.

It was reconstituted as the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), in 1988 under an Act of NSW State Parliament. In 1990 it absorbed the Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education and the Institute of Technical and Adult Teacher Education of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, under the terms of the Higher Education (Amalgamation) Act 1989.

Although its antecedent institutions go back as far as 1893, they took new shapes from the 1960s, creating a new University focused on practice-oriented education with strong links to industry, the professions and the community, and with a growing research reputation and a strong commitment to internationalisation.

UTS has had three phases in its history. In the first phase, effort was concentrated on embedding an amalgamation of institutions which were culturally and structurally different. This strengthened the research culture and established a more consistent approach to teaching and learning.

The second phase, beginning in the mid 1990s, saw a strong focus on international student recruitment, combined with an expansion of professional post-graduate programs for domestic students. Greater emphasis on both research and flexible learning also became priorities during this period.

The third phase began in 2000 with a 10 year strategic vision. This involved concentrating research funding into four major research institutes, upgrading physical infrastructure at the city campus, enhancing teaching and learning, and continuing entrepreneurial activity.

1893 - Sydney Technical College established - the precursor of the NSWIT.
1940 - NSW Parliament passes Act to establish an Institute of Technology, World War II intervenes.
1945 - Technical College Annexe of Sydney Teachers College
Sydney Teachers College
The Sydney Teachers College was a tertiary education institution that trained school teachers in Sydney, Australia. It existed from 1906 until 1981, when it became a part of the Sydney Institute of Education which in turn joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney in...

was established in the late 1940s - ITATE developed from this Annexe.
1946 - Lectures commenced at Balmain Teachers College with an enrolment of 210 students.
1964 - Establishment of New South Wales Institute of Technology (NSWIT).
1965 - NSWIT enrols first students into Science and Architecture; SE Barratt appointed Chairman of the Interim Council and the first Council.
1967 - NSW Institute of Business Studies established and teaching commences at the Brickfield Hill Campus, George Street, Sydney. Professional recognition of NSWIT engineering courses.
1968 - Amalgamation of the NSW Institute of Business Studies and the NSW Institute of Technology.
1971 - William Balmain Teachers' College moves to Lindfield site (Kuring-gai Campus) NSWIT incorporated and Faculty organisational structure set up.
1973 - William Balmain College declared a College of Advanced Education.
1974 - William Balmain CAE renamed Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education (KCAE). NSWIT commences post graduate courses; occupation of Tower on Broadway begins.
1976 - NSWIT establishes the first Law School in NSW outside the then university sector.
1981 - Sydney CAE
Sydney College of Advanced Education
The Sydney College of Advanced Education was an educational institution in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that existed from 1981 to 1989. The Commonwealth government announced recommendations for a consolidation of higher education provision in March 1981...

incorporated - ITATE was one of five semi-autonomous teaching institutes.
1984 - NSWIT Brickfield Hill Campus relinquished in December after eighteen years - Faculties of Business and Law and the Library move to the Haymarket Campus.
1985 - The new Haymarket Campus officially opened, the building shared between NSWIT and ITATE.
1987 - Announcement on 8 October of the granting of university status to NSWIT, which was followed by the passing of the University of Technology, Sydney, Act 1987 and the appointment of Professor RD Guthrie as Vice-Chancellor.
1988 - The School of Design of the former Sydney College of the Arts
Sydney College of the Arts
The Sydney College of the Arts in Rozelle, Sydney, Australia is the visual arts faculty of the University of Sydney. It is housed in the Kirkbride complex, a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet, the government architect in the late 19th century...

was incorporated into NSWIT on 25 January and on 26 January NSWIT became the University of Technology, Sydney, known as UTS.
1989 - University of Technology, Sydney, Act 1989 No 69 assented to 23 May, forming the new UTS in combination with KCAE and ITATE from Sydney CAE
Sydney College of Advanced Education
The Sydney College of Advanced Education was an educational institution in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that existed from 1981 to 1989. The Commonwealth government announced recommendations for a consolidation of higher education provision in March 1981...

.
1990 - New UTS established from 1 January; inaugural meeting of Council on 15 November.
1991 - Academic Structure of nine Faculties and 25 schools established - Faculties being Business; Design, Architecture and Building; Education; Law and Legal Practice; Mathematical and Computing Sciences; Nursing; Science; Humanities and Social Sciences.
1999 - Sir Gerard Brennan QC
Gerard Brennan
Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC, KBE, QC , is an Australian lawyer, judge and 10th Chief Justice of Australia. He is father to Jesuit priest and lawyer Frank Brennan....

installed as Chancellor.
2002 - Professor RE Milbourne appointed Vice-Chancellor.
2005 - Professor Vicki Sara installed as Chancellor.

Faculties

Tower building

UTS Tower

The University of Technology Sydney Tower is located at 1 Broadway NSW, Australia. On more than one occasion it has been singled out as Sydney's ugliest building. For many UTS staff and students, this has become a matter of pride. The Tower has provoked beautification schemes from irate architects...

is the tallest educational facility in Australia with 32 levels

Faculty
Arts and Social Sciences	More than 2000 students are enrolled in the faculty of Education.
Business	The largest faculty at UTS and one of the largest business schools in Australia with more than 10,000 full-time equivalent students and an active global network of almost 50,000 alumni. The Dean is Professor Roy Green. The schools of Accounting and Finance have AACSB and CFA Chartered Financial Analyst The Chartered Financial Analyst Program is a graduate level self-study program offered by the CFA Institute to investment and financial professionals... accreditation respectively.
Design, Architecture and Building	The School of Design of the former Sydney College of the Arts was incorporated into NSWIT on 25 January 1988 and on 26 January NSWIT became the University of Technology, Sydney, known as UTS.
Engineering and Information Technology	UTS Engineering is one of the largest providers of engineering education in Australia and teaches over 5,000 students, both within Australia and in international locations.
Law	Approximately 2,500 students and an average of 90% of undergraduate students working full-time.
Nursing, Midwifery and Health	UTS: Nursing, Midwifery and Health offers the only stand-alone Bachelor of Midwifery in NSW
Science	UTS: Science has world-class research activities including climate change, forensic science and biology, nanotechnology, health technology, biotechnology, mathematical modelling of complex systems, infectious and parasitic diseases, imaging and marine biology.

Insearch

Insearch is the learning pathways provider for UTS. Insearch offers English language courses to prepare international students for entry to UTS bachelor's degrees and post-graduate study. Insearch provides courses that lead to university degrees in the area of Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Science, Nursing, Communication, Design and Architecture.

Insearch has an operation at the University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

, UK

Reputation and Achievements

Each year UTS attracts the highest number of first preference applications for Creative Arts courses in the state. These courses include the Bachelor of Design courses offered by the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Bachelor of Arts (Communications) courses offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

In December 2006 the UTS Faculty of Business earned accreditation from AACSB International. To contextualise this there are only 5 institutions that have received this accreditation in Australia, and just 540 worldwide (less than 10 per cent of the world's business schools). This comes on the back of being ranked in the top six business/economics faculties for the DEST Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (2007).

At the end of 2007 UTS became the first undergraduate CFA
Chartered Financial Analyst
The Chartered Financial Analyst Program is a graduate level self-study program offered by the CFA Institute to investment and financial professionals...

(Chartered Financial Analyst
Chartered Financial Analyst
The Chartered Financial Analyst Program is a graduate level self-study program offered by the CFA Institute to investment and financial professionals...

) Program Partner in Australia based on the Bachelor of Business with a major in Finance. The UTS Finance major is still the only undergraduate degree in Australia to be acknowledged by the CFA.

In October 2007 UTS received the equal highest allocation of the "Learning and Teaching Performance Fund" alongside the University of Wollongong. The university received an A1 rating for all four discipline groupings (science, business, humanities and health).

UTS has earned an EOWA
Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency is an Australian government agency. It is statutory authority located within the portfolio of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Families Housing Community Servcies and Indigenous Affairs .EOWA’s role is to administer the Equal...

(Employer of Choice for Women) citation every year since it was launched in 2001, and has been rated as a best practice organisation by EOWA for the past ten years.

The Australian Graduate Survey results (2007) showed that 90% of Graduate School of Business graduates secure employment three months after graduating with an average starting salary of over $80,000 while the average salary for undergraduates were $50,760.

In 2008 UTS received the equal highest allocation of the "Learning and Teaching Performance Fund". The university received the highest rating for all four discipline groupings (science, business, humanities and health).

University of Technology, Sydney was listed as one of 39 World's Best Design Programs under programs to watch, selected by Business Week, alongside other reputable institutions such as Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...

and University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

. UTS was the only Australian institution to do so.

Research produced by the Melbourne Institute in 2006 ranked Australian universities across seven main discipline areas: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science. For each discipline, University of Technology Sydney was ranked:

Discipline	R1*	No.	R2*	No.
Arts and Humanities	18	38	23	35
Business and Economics	10	39	8	34
Education	10	35	16	32
Engineering	14	28	11	28
Law	15	29	16	28
Medicine
14
28
Science	24	38	22	31

R1 refers to Australian and overseas Academics' rankings in tables 3.1-3.7 of the report.
R2 refers to the Articles and Research rankings in tables 5.1-5.7 of the report.
No. refers to the total number of institutions in the table against which University of Technology Sydney is compared.

Campuses

Campus	Address	Location	Map
Haymarket Haymarket, New South Wales Haymarket is a locality of Sydney's city centre, New South Wales, Australia. It is located at the southern end of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney....	Quay St, Ultimo Road and Darling Drive	City	Map
Broadway Broadway, New South Wales Broadway is a road in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The road constitutes the border between the suburbs of Ultimo and Chippendale . Broadway is also an urban locality....	Broadway, Harris St & Thomas St	City	Map
Chippendale Chippendale, New South Wales Chippendale is a small inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Chippendale is located on the southern edge of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney...	Blackfriars St	City	Map
Kuring-gai	Eton Road	Lindfield Lindfield, New South Wales Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lindfield is 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.- Location and history :...	Map

Campus architecture

The University of Technology, Sydney is an interesting mix of architectural styles reflecting the different periods in which the buildings and grounds were constructed and renovated. The famous 'Tower' building

UTS Tower

is an example of brutalist architecture

Brutalist architecture

Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement.-The term "brutalism":...

with square and block concrete designs. Built following massive student protests in U.S. colleges like Berkeley and Kent State University, the building was designed to do away with large, outdoor areas and hence limit students' ability to stage large protests. The Haymarket campus (building 5) combines a modern interior with the remaining exterior of the old markets building, and the recently completed buildings 4 and 6 are designed with an element of high-tech architecture

High-Tech Architecture

High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism, an extension of those...

.
In October 2006, the university's tower building was voted by 23% of the total vote in a poll hosted by Sydney Morning Herald as ugliest building in Sydney.

The University recently acquired the former Sydney Institute of Technology building that stands opposite to Building 10 (on Jones St) and adjacent to Building 2. This building was named Building 7, but was demolished to make way for an extension of Alumni Green. Currently, the university is constructing an underground multi-purpose sports hall beside the Alumni Green. Designed by PTW Architects, this project commenced in late January 2010 and opened in April 2011.

Libraries

UTS provides services through two campus Libraries, the City Campus (Blake Library) and the Kuring-gai Campus (George Muir Library) as well as an extensive range of online services www.lib.uts.edu.au.

UTS Library staff provide assignment and research assistance in both Libraries, online and through outreach programs directly to the different discipline areas. In addition, Library staff manage all loans, including interlibrary loans and the technical aspects of running a large research and teaching and learning Library.

UTS Library is responsible for UTSeScholarship, providing a secure, stable, digital home for the scholarly output of the University's staff, students and research community. UTSeScholarship encompasses three distinct areas: UTSePress, UTSiResearch and UTSeData.

UTSePress publishes scholarly books, conference proceedings and journals. The titles published are peer reviewed, compliant with current academic publishing regulations and growing in reputation and impact.

UTSiResearch captures, stores, indexes, preserves and redistributes the University's scholarly research in digital formats.

UTSeData manages data curation. We are the national node for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive (ATSIDA) and the NSW node for the Australian Social Sciences Data Archive - a collaborative venture across Australian institutions.

UTSeData also provides advice regarding data curation for other disciplines.

The Blake Library (City Campus) will relocate to a new purpose built facility around 2015.[14]

Housing

The University offers modern, self-catering accommodation in four buildings named Gumal Ngurang, Geegal, Bulga Ngurra, and Blackfriars. Gumal Ngurang is the largest complex and is located on Broadway, just down the road from Bulga Ngurra.

Future infrastructure projects

2009-2013 will see the construction of a new building on Broadway

Broadway, New South Wales

Broadway is a road in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The road constitutes the border between the suburbs of Ultimo and Chippendale . Broadway is also an urban locality....

to house the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. In the medium term future UTS will make a significant investment in its facilities intending to create a world-class campus. This is part of the UTS City Campus Masterplan which was approved by the University Council in August 2008. This plan which was unveiled to the public on 19 January 2009 will commence in mid 2009 and involve:

New buildings: a nine-storey "gateway" building on Broadway adjacent to Building 10; a five-storey building facing Thomas St; and, a nine-storey building on the former Dairy Farmers site in Ultimo Road
New student housing in a multi-storey block to be built over the rear of Building 6
Extension of the Tower podium to create a new entry zone, improved Broadway street frontage and a "student commons" hub
Refurbishment of existing buildings, including a major reconfiguration of Building 2 to house an "integrated learning commons" comprising a new library and associated study spaces
The rejuvenation of Alumni Green, including the construction of a multi-purpose hall under its northern end
New intra-campus pedestrian networks, including the proposed closure of Jones St to create a pedestrian thoroughfare

Academic Board

The UTS Academic Board is the principal advisory body to the UTS Council on academic matters.

The Academic Board is concerned with policy development as it relates to the University's academic programs in education, scholarship and research, and community service. It refers to policy recommendations to Council and discusses matters referred to it by Council.

Academic Board plays a key role in the UTS community in providing a forum for the discussion and debate of the academic directions of the University as well as the quality of its academic programs. The Board consists of academic staff members as well as student members elected for a general period of 1–2 years.

Year	Academic Board Student Members
2010	Kate Alway, Mohit Kumar Saraogi, Fatima Taleb, Bonita Silva, Yasir Badani, Andrew Southwood-Jones, Thomas Hoffman, Paul Soryal, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee and Rachael Durrant.
2011	Georgia Symons, Bechar Hamdan, Emilie Ho, Jack Andrew Kelly, and Leticia Centrone.

Student life

The UTS Union is the organisation which runs a range of on-campus student services, including over-priced food & beverage outlets, cultural activities, student social events, and is responsible for overseeing UTS clubs & societies, sports clubs and other recreational activities. The UTS gym has recently been renovated. The City Campus is home to two licensed bars, 'The Glasshouse' and 'The Loft'.

UTS has its own community radio station on campus, 2SER FM

2SER

2SER is a community radio station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, broadcasting on the frequency 107.3 FM and is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. The station operates as a company limited by guarantee and is jointly owned by Macquarie University and the...

. The studio is located on Level 26 of the UTS Tower and broadcasts to the entire Sydney region. The station is jointly owned by UTS and Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...

, with a second studio at Macquarie University. UTS Journalism students help produce the station's news and current affairs programs including "The Wire" and "Razors Edge".

The UTS Students' Association

UTS Students' Association

The University of Technology, Sydney, Students' Association is the representative body for students at the University of Technology, Sydney. It is based at the Broadway campus of UTS. It commissions the student magazine Vertigo...

is the representative student organisation at UTS. It publishes the student newspaper, Vertigo (UTS)

Vertigo (UTS)

Vertigo is the student magazine of the University of Technology, Sydney. Its name derives from the university's main building, which is a 28-storey brutal modernist tower block and how the Vertigo Offices were originally at its summit...

, runs the second hand bookshop, and advocates on behalf of students both individually and collectively.

Notable alumni

Shawn Atleo
Shawn Atleo
Shawn A-in-chut Atleo is a Canadian First Nations activist and the current national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Formerly the AFN's regional chief in British Columbia, he was selected as the new national chief of the AFN at its leadership convention on July 23, 2009, defeating Perry...

, Canadian First Nations activist, master's degree
Lyn Baker, former Commissioner for Fair Trading, New South Wales, Master of Business Administration
Michael Cook, CEO of Macquarie Capital Alliance Group – part of Macquarie Bank; NSWIT – Bachelor of Business Studies (Accounting)
Andrew Ferguson, General Secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU); Faculty of Law – Diploma in Industrial Law
Anna Funder
Anna Funder
Anna Funder is an Australian writer who grew up in Melbourne. She studied creative writing at the University of Melbourne, also later studying at the Free University of Berlin as the recipient in 1994 of a DAAD Scholarship...

, author of Stasiland
Stasiland
Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Stasiland: Ach, war es nicht so schrecklich - Wahre...

; Faculty of Humanities – Master's degree in creative writing
Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell is an Australian author, best known for anonymously writing the best-selling erotic novel The Bride Stripped Bare....

, author of The Bride Stripped Bare
The Bride Stripped Bare
The Bride Stripped Bare is a 2003 novel written by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell, originally published anonymously. The title is borrowed from the painting The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even by Marcel Duchamp...

– Bachelor's degree in communications (journalism)
Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins AM is an Australian political and economic journalist and author.-Early Life and Education:Ross Roderick Gittins was born 13 February 1948 in Newcastle, New South Wales where his family were living at New Lambton. His parents, Salvation Army officers moved to Sydney and Ross started...

, economics editor at the Sydney Morning Herald; NSWIT – Bachelor of Business Studies
Justin Hemmes, the prominent Sydney nightclub owner
Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma , is a former Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr after he resigned on 3 August 2005. Iemma led the Australian Labor Party to victory in the 2007 election before resigning as Premier on 5 September 2008, and as a Member of Parliament on 19...

, former Premier of New South Wales; Faculty of Law – Master's degree in Law
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters...

, actor; Faculty of Humanities - Bachelor's degree in communications (journalism). He was awarded the 2008 Chancellor's Alumni Award for Excellence.
Hon. Justice Tricia Kavanagh, NSW Industrial Relations Commissioner; Faculty of Law - Bachelor's degree in law (1981), Doctor of Philosophy in law (1998)
Sonia Kruger
Sonia Kruger
Sonia Melissa Kruger is an Australian television presenter. She is best known for co-hosting the popular Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, hosting 10 Years Younger in 10 Days and for the role of Tina Sparkle in the hit 1992 film Strictly Ballroom.-Early life:Born in Toowoomba,...

, host of Dancing With The Stars
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

– Arts degree

Sophie Lee
Sophie Lee
Sophie Lee is an Australian film, stage and television actress and author.-Career:Early in her career, Sophie Lee worked as a model, both in Australia and Japan appearing in print and on TV...

, actress; Faculty of Humanities – Graduate certificate in writing
David Murray
David Murray (CEO)
David Murray AO is an Australian businessman who was the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Bank for 13 years until his resignation in 2005...

, former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank; Faculty of Business - Bachelor's degree in business (accounting)
Zoe Naylor
Zoe Naylor
Zoe Naylor is an Australian actress as well as journalist, presenter, MC, model, voice-artist and producer.-Early life:...

, actress, BA Communications
Tim Palmer, award-winning ABC journalist; Faculty of Humanities – Bachelor's degree in communications (1991)
Tanya Plibersek
Tanya Plibersek
Tanya Joan Plibersek, MP , is an Australian politician with the Australian Labor Party, and Federal Minister for Social Inclusion and Minister for Human Services. She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the seat of Sydney, New South Wales...

, politician; Faculty of Humanities – Bachelor's degree
Roger Price
Roger Price (Australian politician)
Leo Roger Spurway Price is a former Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Australian House of Representatives at the 1984 election, representing the Division of Chifley in western Sydney, New South Wales, for the Australian Labor Party until his retirement before the 2010...

, politician; Faculty of Business – Diploma
John Raciti, Designer; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Chairman of Australia and New Zealand at the International Institute of Business and Social Communication (IIBSC)
Anthony Roberts
Anthony Roberts
Anthony John Roberts MP , an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Fair Trading in the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalitition government...

, politician
John Robertson
John Robertson (New South Wales politician)
John Cameron Robertson MP , an Australian politician, is the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and the Leader of the Opposition. Robertson is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Blacktown for Labor since 2011...

, leader of the ALP in NSW
Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales
The leader of the ALP in the New South Wales Parliament is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. When the Labor party forms a government the leader is the Premier and when the party is in opposition...
Henry Tsang
Henry Tsang
Henry Tsang OAM is an Australian architect, politician and formerly an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Tsang was a member of the Council from 27 March 1999 until his resignation effective 3 December 2009...

, politician
Karen Tso
Karen Tso
Karen Tso is an Australian television journalist and anchor at CNBC Asia.Tso began her career as a general news reporter for the AAP after graduating with a commerce degree from Griffith University in Queensland. She also studied for a Masters In Journalism at both the University of Westminster in...

, Financial reporter; Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

Australia.
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor (comedian)
Christopher Thornton "Chris" Taylor is an Australian comedian, writer and former radio host from Sydney. As a member of The Chaser, he is best known for co-writing and appearing on satirical ABC Television shows CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything...

, Australian satirist, radio presenter and writer; Member of The Chaser
The Chaser
The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste...

.
Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson is a rower from Australia, who has won World Rowing Championships gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship...

, rower; Faculty of Business – Bachelor's degree
Brod Wright
Brod Wright
Brod Wright is a professional rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition. He plays in the second-row....

, rugby league player; Faculty of Business (sport management)
Anh Do
Anh Do
Anh Do is a Vietnamese Australian author, actor and stand-up comedian.He has appeared on many Australian TV shows such as Thank God You're Here and Good News Week, and was runner-up on Dancing With The Stars in 2007. He studied a combined Business Law degree at the University of Technology, Sydney...

, comedian; Law degree

Sports Clubs

UTS has a famous rowing club located at Haberfield
Haberfield, New South Wales
Haberfield is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Haberfield is located 9 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Municipality of Ashfield....

. The UTS Rowing club produced all four crew members of the coxless fours at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson is a rower from Australia, who has won World Rowing Championships gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship...

, Monique Heinke and Victoria Roberts who were members of the team involved in the Sally Robbins
Sally Robbins
Sally Robbins is an Australian rower, who was a member of Australia's 2004 Summer Olympics Women's Eight.Sally Robbins was involved in an infamous incident in the 2004 Olympics final held on 22 August. The team was third through the first 1000 metres but had dropped back to fifth with 500 metres...

controversy in 2004.

The Sydney Cricket Club
Sydney Cricket Club
Sydney Cricket Club play in the Sydney Grade Cricket Competition. In 2007 the UTS-Balmain club merged with the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and are now known as Sydney CC or Sydney Cricket Club or just simply Sydney Tigers. The Tigers play out of Drummoyne Oval. With over 100 years of history and...

was formed in 2007 as a merger between the Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...

Trust and the UTS Balmain Cricket Club. The club competes in the Sydney Grade competition
Sydney Grade Cricket
Sydney Grade Cricket is a cricket competition played in Sydney, Australia. The competition began in 1893 when a number of clubs, which had been playing for many years on an ad hoc basis, voted to create a formal competition structure....

. Current and former players include Nathan Bracken
Nathan Bracken
Nathan Wade Bracken is a former Australian cricketer. A tall left-arm fast-medium bowler, Bracken is capable of swinging the ball both ways. He has represented Australia in all forms of the game...

, Jason Krejza
Jason Krejza
Jason John Krejza is an Australian cricketer. He also plays for the Tasmanian Tigers and Leicestershire. Krejza's father was a association football player from Czechoslovakia and his mother was born in Poland...

, Arthur Mailey
Arthur Mailey
Arthur Alfred Mailey was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches between 1920 and 1926....

and Graham Thorpe
Graham Thorpe
Graham Paul Thorpe MBE is a former English cricketer who played for Surrey and England. A left-handed middle-order batsman and slip fielder, he appeared in exactly 100 Test matches.-Early life:...

.

UTS Tigers (formerly UTS Jets) are the University's rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

team. They are affiliated with the Balmain Tigers
Balmain Tigers
The Balmain Tigers are a rugby league football club based in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Balmain. They were a founding member of the New South Wales Rugby League and one of the most successful in the history of the premiership, with eleven titles...

rugby league club. They defeated Sydney Uni in the 2008 Broadway derby. They are the current premiers of the NSW tertiary rugby league
NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League
The NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League is an affiliated body of the New South Wales Rugby League, established to promote the development of Rugby League within Universities, TAFE and other Tertiary Institutes within the state of NSW....

competition.

UTS Gridiron
UTS Gridiron
UTS Gridiron is a sporting club competing in the Gridiron NSW league in both Division One and Colts Divisions. The club's teams are both listed in the league under the name of UTS Gridiron, though informally the Senior squad is known as the Gators, one junior team known as the Titans, the other...

competes in the Gridiron NSW
Gridiron NSW
Gridiron NSW is the governing body for gridiron in the state of New South Wales, Australia....

league (American football).

The UTS Hockey club is one of the biggest sporting clubs at UTS, playing in the top grades of men and women's hockey in NSW.

The UTS fencing club is the home of Olympian Frank Bartolillo who represented Australia in fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Helliniko Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre....

in Athens. It is the most successful fencing club in NSW.

The UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club
UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club
UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club is an athletics club based in Sydney, NSW. It was formed in 1994 as a merger between The Northern Suburbs Amateur Athletic Club and The University of Technology, Sydney....

competes in the Australian circuit and has produced many National Champions. They won the national championship in 2006 and became the first club from NSW to win. Its athletes include Nick Bromley
Nick Bromley
Nicholas Bromley is an Australian middle distance track athlete. He won the Australian national 800 metre title in 2007 for the third consecutive year and won the Scottish national title in 2009 in a ridiculously slow, but tactical race...

, Stuart Paterson and Tristan Garrett.

The UTS Volleyball Club is the largest university volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

club in NSW. Both the Men's and Women's teams compete in the state's premier league - the Sydney League.

The UTS Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

Club compete in the Sydney Basketball League.

The UTS Australian Football Club
UTS Australian Football Club
The UTS Australian Football Club , also known as "The Bats", is an Australian rules football club based in the eastern Sydney suburb of Paddington, which plays its home games at Trumper Park Oval, Paddington. The club is affiliated with the University of Technology, Sydney...

or "The Bats" compete in the Sydney AFL
Sydney AFL
The "AFL Sydney" is an Australian rules football League, based in metropolitan Sydney, Australia.The AFL Sydney competition comprises 21 clubs playing across 5 senior divisions with 2 under 18 competitions.-History:...

. Formed in 1999, they won the A and B grade premierships in 2006.

The UTS Soccer Club runs its own Summer Soccer competition and competes in the Ku-ring-gai & District Soccer Association competition during Winter.

UTS won the East Coast Challenge for the first time in 2008, winning both the 'Overall Points Score' and the 'Per Capita Champion Award'. Macquarie University

Macquarie University

finished 2nd and Sydney Uni 3rd. Other popular sports at the University include Ultimate Frisbee, Lawn Bowls, touch rugby league and 5-a-side football. The general sporting colours at UTS are green and black.

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