Cumberland College of Health Sciences (CCHS)
On 1 July 1973 the NSW College of Paramedical Studies was declared a college of advanced education (CAE) within the Ministry of Education. The College assumed responsibility for the educational programmes previously conducted by the New South Wales College of Nursing, New South Wales College of Occupational Therapy, New South Wales School of Orthoptics, New South Wales School of Physiotherapy and the New South Wales Speech Therapy Training School. It became a corporate CAE on 1 October 1974 and College was renamed Cumberland College of Health Sciences on 6 June 1975. It offered a three-year full-time occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech therapy course, and a two-year full-time course in orthoptics. The post-registration nursing courses, previously conducted by the New South Wales College of Nursing, were included from 1975.
As part of the reorganisation of higher education in the late 1980s, State government legislation dissolved the College as a CAE and re-established it an academic college of the University with effect from 1 January 1990. It became the Faculty of Health Sciences in 1991.
After operating in rented premises in five inner city campuses in its early years, the College's site at Lidcombe was completed by July 1978 and officially opened by the then Governor General, Sir Zelman Cowen, on 26 October 1979.
Minutes [Cumberland College of Health Sciences Council Education Committee of Council] (Series 1323)
Minutes [Cumberland College of Health Sciences Council Executive Committee of Council] (Series 1329)