Person

Evans, Clive Kersdale (1897 - 1969)

Born
11 September 1897
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Died
21 July 1969
Occupation
Science educator

Summary

Clive Evans was the first Superintendent then Director of Technical Education in Queensland from 1944-1963. During the years immediately following World War II he was appointed Regional Director of Industrial Training in addition to his normal responsibilities. This work involved organising rehabilitation training of ex-servicemen who undertook technical college courses. On retirement Evans became Chairman of the committee set up to reorganise apprenticeship training in Queensland; the work of this committee resulted in the 1964 Queensland Apprenticeship Act. He was educated University of Queensland (MSc).

Details

Chronology

c. 1914 - c. 1918
Career position - Military service with the Australian Flying Corps
1919 - 1924
Career position - Teacher at Rockhampton High School and Technical College, Queensland
1924 - 1944
Career position - Principal of Ipswich Technical College
1944 - 1948
Career position - First Superintendent of Technical Education in Queensland
1948 - 1963
Career position - Director of Technical Education in Queensland

Published resources

Resources

Rosanne Walker

EOAS ID: biogs/P002884b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002884b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260