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TEQSA approves Australia’s first new university in nearly a decade
Australian higher education students will be afforded more choice after one new university and three university colleges were approved by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Authority (TEQSA).
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Avondale University College is Seventh-day Adventist, with its history dating back to Ellen White. This may not be the faith of everybody teaching there, but it has two required Christian classes in the undergrad curriculum, the second of which is Adventist. This may explain why it took so long to get accreditation? Wiki says “The subjects Christian Studies I and II (or substitutes) are required for all students. The first covers salvation and Christian belief and lifestyle, while the second has a more specifically Adventist focus.”
Some interesting history there….thanks for that. And I think you could be right!