Education

This bill simplifies Queensland's retail trading hours framework and strengthens protections for retail workers who don't want to work extended hours. It also makes permanent the COVID-era arrangements allowing school P&C meetings and teacher registration investigations to be conducted by video call.

This bill improves Queensland's workers' compensation scheme based on an independent review, while also strengthening protections for apprentices and trainees, requiring Indigenous representation on the TAFE Queensland Board, and repealing the now-redundant Commonwealth Games Act.

This bill makes four unrelated sets of changes: it modernises the regulation of schools providing education to overseas students, creates a new statutory framework for student exchange programs, implements major reforms to senior secondary assessment including external exams and ATARs from 2019, and fixes an error that banned Easter Saturday trading in regional towns.

This bill reforms Queensland's Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 to reduce administrative burden on schools and families while strengthening student safety. It makes transfer notes mandatory when students move between schools, implements recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and streamlines processes for online learning platforms, home education, special schools, and P&C Associations.

This bill establishes a formal process for recognising exceptional teachers through 'Highly Accomplished Teacher' and 'Lead Teacher' certification. It empowers the Queensland College of Teachers to assess and certify teachers in State and Catholic schools against national professional standards, giving experienced educators a career pathway that doesn't require leaving the classroom.

This bill reduces the QUT Council from 22 to 15 members to align with national best practice guidelines for university governance. It cuts the number of government-appointed and elected positions while increasing Council-appointed members, and requires student representation to include both undergraduate and postgraduate students.