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The Centre received the 2014 and 2004 International Association of Congress Centres (AIPC) APEX Award for World's Best Congress Centre. [15] It was inducted into the Queensland Tourism Awards Hall of Fame after winning gold in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Business Event Venues category and received the Chairman's Award for Excellence in the Tourism ...
A speaker delivers a keynote address at the Australian Libraries Information Association conference, 2013. The building is 450 m (1,480 ft) in length, 120 m (390 ft) wide, and 24 m (79 ft) high. [9] The complex roof design is based on five hyperbolic paraboloids. [9] The building is stabilised by concrete shear walls and clad in steel. A car ...
UQ Business School Brisbane City (UQ Brisbane City [6]), which opened in 2004, is situated in Brisbane's central business district and is home to the school's MBA program and Executive Education courses. This learning and conference centre won the Queensland Architecture Award (Interiors) in 2005. [7]
Along with the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and the Queensland Firebirds, a Brisbane-based netball team in the Suncorp Super Netball played occasional home games at the venue until 2018. In 2007, the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) hosted its first-ever World Cup event at the GCCEC, pitting 5 nations of bull riders against each ...
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 ...
There was strong support for technical education in Queensland and this was the only Australian state to plan and construct a complex of buildings for a technical college. Sketch plans for nine two-storey buildings grouped around a central courtyard, linked with covered ways were prepared by the Department of Public Works in 1909.
In 1941, the Queensland Labor Premier, William Forgan Smith, introduced section 17 of the National Education Co-ordination and University of Queensland Amendment Act, which provided for the creation of university colleges outside Brisbane. [12]
The Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) is a university located in Brisbane, Australia specialising in English language courses, teacher training, professional development, and English language testing. The Institute (ICTE) is a division of The University of Queensland (UQ), ranked among the world’s top 50 universities [1].