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TROPIC • EDUCATION

Education

innovation

BUILDING PATHWAYS
In a Queensland first,
CQUniversity and Cairns State
High School are embarking
on an ambitious $35 million
partnership.

Words Renee Cluff
Keeping young people in Cairns after
they finish high school has been an
ongoing challenge for the city. So
often, graduated students depart for
greener pastures down south to pursue
tertiary studies and job opportunities.
To help address this brain drain, Jodie Duignan-George
CQUniversity and Cairns State High
have joined forces with a planned
$35 million investment. The two exciting aspect of the proposal qualifications, with clear incentive
organisations will create Queensland’s involves a Teacher Education Centre and support mechanisms in place to
first Comprehensive University High of Excellence, which can be utilised continue into dual sector university
School, delivering opportunities for by all schools in the region to lift our participation after year 12,” she said.
local students across high school, capacity to train and retain the best “By partnering with our CBD
TAFE and university level content. teachers in the world through post- ‘sister-school’, we can transform
Direct enrolment pathways embedded graduate teacher training and research the lives of students who may not
within the school curriculum. with CQUniversity.” otherwise pursue qualifications
Cairns State High principal CQUniversity Associate Vice- beyond high school.
Christopher Zilm said major new Chancellor Jodie Duignan-George The two CBD educators are in talks
educational infrastructure would said TAFE and degree-level courses with both the Queensland and Federal
be built as part of the plan. “We are would be offered within the current Governments to secure funding. So
looking to build state-of-the-art school curriculum so that students far, the concept has garnered the
facilities that enable us to deliver new can commence formal training with a support of State Member for Cairns
and improved curriculum in emerging continuous, seamless pathway to post- Michael Healy and Federal Member for
areas such as allied health, trades, schooling study. “Everything we would Leichhardt Warren Entsch.
engineering and aerospace, and deliver under this concept will have a
arts technologies,” he said. “Another seamless pathway to post-schooling MORE: cqu.edu.au

On the box

The news and views of Trinity Anglican School’s student
television reporters is now being broadcast to the
school community. TAS TV is a program produced by
students under the guidance of Daniel Pycroft at Studio
Productions. The show celebrates life at TAS from a
student’s perspective. “The participating students have
embraced their weekly opportunity to be reporter and
camera operator while learning valuable editing skills
that go into creating a news program,” said TAS Principal
Paul Sjogren. The weekly bulletin includes news, sport
and entertainment stories. The students conduct
interviews, compile video footage, lay voice-overs and
edit their reports.
MORE: tas.qld.edu.au

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