A culture of wellbeing: developing resilience and helping our students thrive
At St Mark’s College, wellbeing is more than just a priority—it’s at the heart of everything we do. This year, we have continued to build and strengthen a vibrant, supportive community where students thrive not only academically but personally as well. Our approach to wellbeing is holistic in acknowledgement of the diverse needs of our students, and we provide them …
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Visitors welcome!
It is always a pleasure to welcome Old Collegians and friends of the College back to St Mark’s. Recently Old Collegians and friends from various parts of the world have called in to visit and share reminiscences of their College days, or to learn more about their forebears and the College. It was a delight to welcome back Dr Raymond …
Gratefully celebrating our 2024 prize winners!
Our recent Final Service focussed on all we are grateful for at St Mark’s in 2024, and was followed by the Final Dinner at which outstanding achievement in academic studies, sport, the arts , community service, and leadership were recognised, and those leaving the College thanked for all they have contributed to St Mark’s. One of the College’s highest honours, …
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Introducing our 2025 student leaders
The College is delighted to announce the election and appointment of the student leaders who will serve the St Mark’s College community in 2025, our Centenary year. The 2025 College Club Committee and Charitable Foundation Executive members were elected at the recent Final General Meeting of College students, and other student leadership roles have been appointed following a rigorous application …
St Mark’s goes west: alumni and friends connect in Perth
Alumni and friends of St Mark’s from many generations recently enjoyed an evening of recollection and celebration at our Perth reunion. Perth treated alumni and friends of St Mark’s to a gloriously sunny spring evening for a reunion at the University of Western Australia’s Club Café & Bar, where views of the university gardens and the beautiful Matilda Bay provided …
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Ivan Shearer Scholarship for study in Oxford or Cambridge – call for applications for 2025-26
A generous bequest by the late Professor Ivan Shearer AM RFD has enabled the creation of the Ivan Shearer Scholarship to support St Mark’s Collegians to study at the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge. An international law academic and practitioner who developed a high global reputation, Ivan Shearer (1938-2019) was Dean of St Mark’s College from 1968 …
Would you like to join our 70+ Table Captains for the Centenary Gala Dinner?
Over 70 alumni and friends of St Mark’s have already volunteered to be Table Captains for the Centenary Gala Dinner on 15 March 2025, organising tables of 10 for this historic night. The Centenary Gala Dinner, 100 years to the day from the official opening of the College on 15 March 1925, will be the highlight of our Centenary celebrations …
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A culture of service
Service, both within and external to our College, is and always will be one of the key values of St Mark’s. Indeed, one of the many heartening aspects of College life in 2024 has been the strong presence of the Charitable Foundation. 2024’s Charitable Foundation has been led by the elected executive members, Jacob Deeb, Jean-Philippe Soulie, and Nathan Rokebrand. …
Old Collegians’ Association marks College Centenary with new bursary fund
To commemorate St Mark’s Centenary in 2025, the Old Collegians’ Association has gifted $100,000 to the College. This gift will create a second bursary to support a student with a family member who was a Collegian to be at St Mark’s. For many years, the Old Collegians’ Association has provided a bursary for an incoming student with a family member …
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Have you seen the new Centenary logo?
In preparation for celebrating the College’s Centenary in 2025, a Centenary logo and flag have been designed, and were recently launched at the College in a remarkable way… It was a regular Tuesday morning until a painter arrived at the St Mark’s Tennis Courts with buckets of blue, gold, and red paint. First, he started marking out a grid, eight …
Library, rare books, and archive donations and developments
Recent years have seen many significant donations to the College Library, including to its significant rare books collection, and to the College Archives. We are deeply grateful to the generous donors. Thanks also to generous donors, the rare books collection is now housed in three purpose-built cabinets in the College Library. The College Archives are now located in a very …
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Academic achievements and adventures: Spring 2024
Stellar first semester results The St Mark’s College motto, spernit virtus humum, can be translated as “excellence reaches for the stars”, and this is exactly what our students did in semester 1! Our students undertook almost 1,000 subjects throughout the semester. Here’s how they fared: Almost 50% of grades received were Distinctions and High Distinctions. One fifth of our students …
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