The TAFE Queensland annual report highlights TAFE Queensland's key results over the financial year, its vision, values and key priorities, governance, and financial performance for the year.
TAFE Queensland offers students access to over 60 campus locations throughout Queensland, from Thursday Island in the North, to Coolangatta in the South East, and as far west as Mount Isa. In 1882, TAFE Queensland started with just a dozen students for a mechanical drawing class in the garret of the North Brisbane School of Arts. That same year it expanded course offerings to include geology, bookkeeping, F
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The TAFE Queensland annual report highlights TAFE Queensland's key results over the financial year, its vision, values and key priorities, governance, and financial performance for the year.
TAFE Queensland offers students access to over 60 campus locations throughout Queensland, from Thursday Island in the North, to Coolangatta in the South East, and as far west as Mount Isa. In 1882, TAFE Queensland started with just a dozen students for a mechanical drawing class in the garret of the North Brisbane School of Arts. That same year it expanded course offerings to include geology, bookkeeping, French, German, and the history of the British Empire. By the 1900s, due to economic growth, it expanded across the greater Brisbane region and the state. During the early 1900s, several significant changes impacted on technical education in Queensland, including the creation of the Board of Technical Education. The Depression caused a downturn in the trades, but as the 1930s progressed, the economy slowly began to recover, and it worked with industry to offer new courses such as waitressing. Over the next few decades it continued to deliver training across the state, influenced by local, industry and economic needs. In 1974, all Technical Colleges became known as Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Colleges. TAFE Queensland was officially established by the TAFE Queensland Act 2013 as a statutory body on 1 July 2014. From 1 July 2017 it commenced the process of consolidating its six regional registered training organisations (RTOs) into a single RTO.
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided some unique challenges including lockdown, physical distancing and working remotely. At the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, TAFE Queensland had to think differently about operations and find new, more agile ways of working and delivering training. In early March 2020, TAFE Queensland educators transitioned training delivery plans to alternative delivery modes including flexible, distance and online learning where possible, before returning to face-to-face delivery and adhering to strict COVID-19 safety protocols.
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