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It took 17 days for the Education Department to be notified and to send out a clean-up crew after contractors disturbed asbestos while installing airconditioning at a Brisbane school.
The incident was among 19 asbestos “exposure incidents” at Queensland schools during the installation of airconditioning under the government’s Cooler Schools program since 2019.
Education officials faced a grilling about asbestos removal at Sunnybank State High School during budget estimates.
Credit:Rohan Thomson
On November 9, at 6.35am, airconditioning contractors disturbed asbestos at Sunnybank State High School but a professional crew was not sent to the school for testing, and to clean up more than 30 rooms, until November 26, 17 days later.
Queensland s Year 12 scores will be kept secret after the state government scrapped an annual report detailing the senior results of every high school in the state. Parents will be left in the dark over how each school performed following the controversial dumping, which was slammed by the opposition as evidence the education system was falling victim to secrecy over transparency . Until this year, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority s annual Year 12 Outcomes Report detailed how every school s senior students performed, including how many received top OP scores, senior certificates and VET qualifications. But the transition to a new Queensland Certificate of Education system which saw last year s Year 12 s receive an ATAR rather than an OP has coincided with the QCAA s decision to dump the report.
Education by Stephanie Bennett
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Subscriber only Queensland s Year 12 scores will be kept secret after the state government scrapped an annual report detailing the senior results of every high school in the state. Parents will be left in the dark over how each school performed following the controversial dumping, which was slammed by the opposition as evidence the education system was falling victim to secrecy over transparency . Until this year, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority s annual Year 12 Outcomes Report detailed how every school s senior students performed, including how many received top OP scores, senior certificates and VET qualifications.