Goodbye to Mitchell Institute as we know it
Victoria University’s highly regarded education think tank, the Mitchell Institute, will disappear in its present form.
Victoria University’s highly regarded education think tank, the Mitchell Institute, will disappear in its present form, to be replaced by a new body built from two other research institutes in the university.
The institute was founded in 2013 with a $12.5 million gift from the foundation of businessman Harold Mitchell that was intended to fund the think tank for five years — a period that has ended.
In its stead, the university will set up a new body to research education and health that draws on its existing Centre for International Research on Education Systems and the Institute for Health and Sport.
Mitchell Institute director Megan O’Connell said the body had played a pivotal role in building the importance of early childhood education and the need to improve it.
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