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Scots veterinarian William Tyson Kendall established Australia's first Veterinary College, a private school for training veterinarians in Melbourne, in 1888. The building still stands in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. When the College closed in 1908 its task was taken on by the University of Melbourne and, in 1909, the Faculty of Veterinary Science was established. Kendall's contribution to veterinary education is acknowledged with W T Kendall Hall, the residential facility for students at the Veterinary Clinical Centre at Werribee.
The Faculty conducts undergraduate and higher degree courses and research. It produces about 50 new Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) graduates and ten to fifteen graduates in higher degrees a year.
The Faculty also provides veterinary services through its veterinary clinic and hospital and consultative arrangements with livestock industries.
The first and second years of the BVSc course are taught at the Faculty's Veterinary Preclinical Centre, Parkville, on a site called the Veterinary Precinct.
The third and fourth years are taught in the Veterinary Clinical Centre at Werribee. Students benefit from being near the Melbourne Water Farm and the Agricultural Research Institute (formerly the State Research Farm), with ready access to sheep and cattle farms in the western part of the State, a large population of horses and a growing urban community.
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