On 26 May 1960, The Canberra Times reported that the acting Deputy Director of Technical Education in New South Wales Mr. R. E. Dunbar declared that the school was "the best educational building he had seen in the world" after visiting the newly constructed school compounds in 1960, while the Principal of the Canberra Technical College Mr. J. Gillis agreed with Dunbar and further remarked that "the school was the finest they had seen anywhere", as both men have travelled overseas extensively to study educational constructions.