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The documents relate to changes within teacher training institution. At Ballarat, this involved the move of the Ballarat Teachers' College to the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (Mount Helen Campus) and the rename of the campus to Ballarat College of Advanced Education. Later this became a campus of Federation University Australia.Correspondence between the Hon. L.H.S. Thompson, M.L.A. (Minister of Education) and Phil G. Law, Vice-President of the Victoria Institute of Colleges. Jack Barker, Principal of the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, was CCed into the correspondence.victoria institute of colleges, mount helen campus, e.j. barker, jack barker, phillip law, lindsay thompson, ballarat institite of advanced education, ballarat college of advanced education, r.w. birrell, e. szomanski, a. buchanan, fourth university