Box Hill Institute is the descendant of two Box Hill area technical schools. "Box Hill Technical School for Girls and Women" was opened on the 4th of September 1924, having welcomed 65 Junior pupils some six months before. The girls primary studied domestic subjects like
housewifery,
cookery,
millinery and
dressmaking. Some girls also took courses like
accounting and
secretarial work. On the 2nd of February 1943 the "Box Hill Technical School for Boys" was established because many boys in the eastern suburbs were being turned away from
Swinburne Technical School. They studied subjects like
sheetmetal work,
technical drawing and
carpentry. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s both technical schools added post-secondary options like certificates in
business studies and
engineering. The Girls' Technical School started the first business certificate course in 1967. The Girls' Technical School was renamed "Whitehorse Technical School" in 1971. Around this time the Boys' Technical School separated its tertiary technical offerings from the secondary ones, the tertiary section becoming "Box Hill Technical School". Both schools were declared colleges of
Technical and Further Education in late 1981. On the 25th of January 1984, Whitehorse Technical School and Box Hill Technical School merged to become "Box Hill College of TAFE". On the 12 September 1995, the Governor in Council approved orders to change the name of Box Hill College of TAFE to Box Hill Institute of TAFE. The College was renamed "Box Hill Institute" ten years later. ==Courses==