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Since 1991 the University of New South Wales has established a strong academic focus on teaching and research in gifted education, and this has been linked to the development and expansion of a range of vacation programs for gifted children, courses for their parents, counselling services for gifted students and their parents, conferences, seminars and workshops for teachers with an interest in gifted education, and the development of a range of teaching resources.

Formally opened on Friday 19th September 1997 by His Excellency the Honourable Gordon Samuels, AC, former Governor of New South Wales, the University of New South Wales established the Gifted Education Research, Resource and Information Centre, to provide an establishment for excellence in research, teaching and services for gifted education. The foundation of GERRIC was not only an acknowledgement by UNSW of its leadership role in this field of education, but a milestone in the history of gifted education in Australia being the first centre of research in gifted education in the Southern Hemisphere.

Since 1997, the initiatives taken by GERRIC have had a remarkable influence on the education of gifted and talented students throughout Australia. Since 1991, more than 60 New South Wales teachers have completed postgraduate degrees specialising in gifted education, and more than 600 teachers from every Australian state, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Vanuatu have successfully completed the UNSW Certificate of Gifted Education program. Hundreds of children from all over New South Wales and the ACT regularly attend programs for gifted students, and teachers across the nation and, increasingly, in North America and the United Kingdom.

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