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QUT is one of Australia's
newest and largest universities, yet its history dates to the beginnings of
education in Queensland traveling through a rich history of 13 predecessor institutions
and 150 years of higher education history.
Three post-secondary education
traditions central to this past (technical education, training for primary and
secondary teaching, and the kindergarten movement) resulted in a unique post-compulsory
education system for Queensland. Their philosophy, pedagogy, goals and vocation
professional training dominated the nineteen century entirely in a State where
university education was debated but only grudgingly allowed.
During the twentieth century
and until the 1960s, technical education and teacher training continued to train
most of the professions in Queensland. Although such post-secondary education
was always seen as separate to and second to the university, it was to remain
a significant tertiary model for the state.
The Act of Parliament that
provided for a fourth university in Queensland was passed in November 1988.
This new university was to amalgamate with Brisbane College of Advanced Education
(BCAE) in 1989, barely twelve months later, to set Queensland University of
Technology (QUT) on the pathway to becoming one of the largest universities
in Australia.
QUT is immensely proud of
both its achievements in its relatively short time as a University and of its
links to a much broader history of post-secondary education in Queensland.
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