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Queensland universities

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Queensland has nine of Australia's 37 universities, including some of the largest universities, the newest, and four strong regional universities. All are engaged in both teaching and research and offer undergraduate and postgraduate studies to doctoral level, in a wide variety of fields of study.
All universities offer innovative courses, flexible teaching and learning environments, close liaison with professional groups business and industry, national and international research and peer-group linkages and partnerships with communities locally, nationally and internationally.
Queensland universities are all research institutions. Their research achievements span a wide range of fields relevant to Queensland's geography, natural environment and resources, and economic and social development - such as: mining; primary industries; rainforest, reef and coastal ecology and management; tropical agriculture; tourism and biotechnology.
Our universities currently participate in 54 Cooperative Research Centres, which bring together researchers from public agencies and private industry to achieve outcomes of national economic and social significance, and are the lead partner in 17 centres.
In addition, a network of 38 community-based Learning Centres enables individual students, businesses and organisations, especially those in rural and remote areas, access to a wide range of educational and training technologies, information and services, to receive or deliver learning regardless of location.

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A further 22 non-university higher education providers operate in Queensland.

TAFE

TAFE Queensland programs provide industry-relevant, leading-edge skills that can help get you into the workplace faster, upgrade existing skills, or prepare you for further study.

Our programs are developed in conjunction with industry to ensure your skills reflect latest industry developments. We offer over 800 programs covering areas such as business, engineering, construction, management, information technology, e-commerce, arts, media, tourism, hospitality, sport and recreation.

With over 120 years of history, and five major regional campuses, TAFE Queensland is the largest, most experience provider of vocational education, training and adult learning in Australia's Smart State, Queensland.

Information courtesy of The State of Queensland (Department of Education, Training and the Arts) 2006.