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The founding Education (Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority) Act 2014 explains that the minister can only appoint people "having the qualifications, experience or standing the Minister considers relevant to the functions of the authority." [4] As of 24 September 2020, the board's seven positions are filled by: [3]
In 1860 the Education Act was enacted. It placed all primary education under one general and comprehensive system controlled by the Board of General Education. [8] Under the Act, education in Queensland is free, secular and compulsory. [8] Warwick East State School, established in September 1850, is the oldest surviving primary school in ...
Throughout 1990–1991, the Department of Education went through major restructuring following the release of the report, Focus on Schools. [2] In February 2004, the Department of Education and the Arts was created. [2] In 2006–07, the Department of Education, Training and the Arts (DETA) was created. [2]
Queensland state schools are funded by the Department of Education. In some rural communities, state schools can provide education up to year 10, roughly until students are 16 years old. Queensland state high schools, or Queensland public high schools, are Queensland Government-run secondary schools (or high schools) that are part of the ...
The Senior Secondary Certificate of Education (SSCE) is the graduation certificate awarded to most students in Australian high schools, and is equivalent to the Advance Placement of North America and the A-Levels of the United Kingdom. Students completing the SSCE are usually aged 16 to 18 and study full-time for two years (years 11 and 12 of ...
In 1826 the first primary school was conducted in Brisbane, then the Moreton Bay penal settlement of New South Wales, by Esther Roberts, a soldier's wife.Although her stipend of £10 was drawn from the funds of the New South Wales colonial government, her school was actually administered by the Anglican Church because in those days it was generally believed that it was the duty of the Church ...
Milton State School (established in 1889 as Rosalie State School) is important in demonstrating the evolution of state education and its associated architecture in Queensland. The place retains an excellent, representative example of a standard government-designed school building that was an architectural response to prevailing government ...
The Cabinet of Queensland is the chief policy-making group of people within the Government of ... Minister for Education; Minister for the Arts; 1 November 2024 ...