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UNSW Kensington Colleges
The current boom in the provision of student housing is being felt across almost every university in Australia. The traditional model was one based on the pastoral care of religious organizations. They were places where country folk could send their sons and daughters to the city and be confident that they were being cared for: food, cleaning and tutoring were provided as part of a fully catered experience. Many people remember their time at university colleges with great fondness – not just for the friendship and the camaraderie, but also because these were the places where young eighteen-year-olds could finally escape the yoke of parental control and seek out the youthful rites of passage of booze, sex and dangerous ideas.
The Kensington Colleges (TKC) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a part of this tradition, though it never had the backing of a church nor quite the history of the sandstone colleges at the University of Sydney – the traditions of which hark back to the colleges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in Britain, which first started around the thirteenth century.
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