Name: Queensland Academy for Creative Industries
Time: 2007 - Current
Epoch: Early 21st Century
Category: State Secondary Academy
Institution Category: Education
Institution Group: Secondary
Coordinates: -27.4531622, 153.0142332
Street Address: 61 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
Suburb: Kelvin Grove
Sector: State
Local Study Area: Bardon-Red Hill-Milton-Kelvin Grove
Study Stage: MBNH Stage 7 Study Areas
The Watkin and Radford Committee overturned the stagnated colonial-era secondary education system but the politics of the state overwhelmed the states in the last quarter of twentieth century, with demands for ‘back-to-basic’ policies and yet with the same demands for sophisticated ‘work-ready’ job skilling. The more rounded objective of producing a fully-rounded independent learner was lost in the instrumentalist politics, and political players poorly understood the emerging technology, social values, and the educational implications of this contemporary history. The early twentieth-first century was an era of educational reviews in the political scramble. The role of the Commonwealth became stronger with the National Curriculum. Neo-liberal economic influences saw the growth of educational management with mixed results. Part of the neo-liberal economic imperative was ‘product differentiation’ whereby state high schools became ‘secondary colleges’ or elite ‘academies’. Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt Geographic Description 2: Breakfast Creek; York's Hollow Geographic Description 3: Flood Gullies; Hills; Ridgeline (Kelvin Grove, Winsdor, and Herston Roads); Valleys