History
Batchelor Institute began in the mid-1960s as an annex of Kormilda College, a residential school for Aboriginal students on the outskirts of Darwin, Northern Territory. Short training programs were provided for Aboriginal teacher aides and assistants in community schools.
In 1974, the college moved to Batchelor (100 kilometres south of Darwin). It has been at its present site since 1982.
A second campus of the college was established in Alice Springs in 1990 to address the educational needs of Aboriginal people from Central Australia. Other annexes were opened in Darwin, Nhulunbuy, Katherine and Tennant Creek.
The Commonwealth Government recognised Batchelor College as an accredited independent higher education institution through the Higher Education Funding Act 1988. This meant that BIITE could issue its own degrees and other tertiary qualifications without outside involvement, in the same way as universities, and also be funded like them.
The college was granted autonomy as a public sector agency in 1995. It became independent under Northern Territory legislation on 1 July 1999.
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