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05 March 2021
Gold Coast secures Wheelchair Rugby National Championship for the first time
The 2021 GIO Wheelchair Rugby National Championship will take the stage on the Gold Coast for the first time, this May. Major Events Gold Coast is pleased to announce its newly formed partnership with Wheelchair Rugby Australia, bringing the 2021 GIO Wheelchair Rugby National Championship to the Gol...
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16 December 2020
Cooly Rocks On announces merge with VIVA Surfers Paradise
Australia’s largest Rock ‘n’ Roll and nostalgia festival, Cooly Rocks On has announced that it will merge with the award-winning VIVA Surfers Paradise in 2021. The Major Events Gold Coast owned and produced events will see Cooly Rocks On welcome the spirit of VIVA Surfers Paradise with five days of ...
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19 November 2020
Guns N’ Roses stadium tour to kick off on the Gold Coast
TEG Dainty and Major Events Gold Coast are thrilled to announce one of the greatest bands of all time Guns N' Roses, will return to our shores in November 2021. Gold Coast fans should be extra excited too, with the stadium tour due to kick off on the Gold Coast on Saturday 6 November 2021 at Metrico...
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15 June 2020
Food Relief For International Students
The need for support within our international student community has never been more keenly felt than during the COVID-19 crisis. When an international student steps into the unknown by relocating to a new country they leave behind their established support networks of family and friends and in doing...
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13 May 2020
Riviera Apprentice Graduates Kickstart Their Career Through Mentor Program
Australia’s largest luxury motor yacht builder Riviera, based on the Gold Coast, continues its commitment to fostering excellence by encouraging its apprentice graduates to participate in a new initiative aimed at enhancing their skills and career pathways. Over a six-month term, graduates of the Ri...
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11 April 2019
Speed Dating Your Career
Health and community services is one of the biggest employers in Australia. Currently one in seven Queenslanders is employed in the sector and by 2050 the Gold Coast is projected to have the largest growth in this sector in the country, estimated to be worth $7 billion annually. In short, helping pe...
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17 July 2018
New Courses on Offer at Southern Cross University
An exciting array of new courses and mid-year intakes are on offer at Southern Cross University. Some are online or mixed mode, while others are being taught at the university’s Gold Coast campus, the city’s only beachside campus just 400m from the picturesque Kirra Beach. A new double degree combin...
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25 June 2018
From OP to ATAR – Queensland’s Changing Secondary Education System
In 2020, the standard pathway to tertiary study for Queensland Year 12’s will change from the Overall Position (OP) to the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). Students entering Year 11 next year will be the first to graduate under the new Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) system. The ...
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13 June 2018
Sharks Nurture Hospitality Talent of the Future
Southport Sharks have shown a commitment to supporting and enhancing the student experience on the Gold Coast over a number of years. From facilitating unique Australian sporting experiences with our international students and creating opportunities for them to integrate into the local community, to...
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28 May 2018
A Sanctuary For Wildlife And Life Changing Opportunities
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary places a strong emphasis on the culture of its workplace. Every team member that you encounter, whether staff member or volunteer, not only greets you with a smile but genuinely seems to enjoy what they do and the environment in which they work. It’s a diverse and robust...
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19 April 2018
Ground Breaking Autism School opens on Gold Coast
In what’s thought to be an Australian first, a new school on the Gold Coast has been built exclusively for children with autism, with attention to every minor detail - including the architecture, furniture, positioning of the land, colours and even the movement of fans. Josiah College has been set u...
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01 March 2018
The Gold Coast - A City Facing Diversity
A funky fusion of cultures makes up the rich and colourful tapestry of the Gold Coast community, due in part to almost a third of the population having been born overseas. Interestingly, if you add to that figure the descendants of those born outside Australia, this figure jumps to more than 40 per ...
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07 February 2018
The sports Super Centre. Where Education Meets Sport
In the late 1990’s Ron Clarke, the former Olympian and Gold Coast Mayor teamed up with American philanthropist Chuck Feeney to build a world class athletics training centre at Runaway Bay. With the Sydney Olympics on the horizon they saw an opportunity to not only help athletes, but to create a much...
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02 February 2018
Air Gold Coast Strikes Deal To Help Address Japan’s Pilot Shortage
In a move set to thrust the Gold Coast’s burgeoning aviation training industry into the global spotlight, Air Gold Coast has brokered a deal to help address Japan’s pilot shortage. “At the moment we do have an agreement to train some pilots for the low-cost carrier Peach Aviation, it is a subsidiary...
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25 January 2018
Gold Coast Tafe Tackles Cyber Security with a New Crouse
In a training first for Queenslanders, TAFE Gold Coast is planning to offer skills-based cyber security qualifications in 2018 to help tackle the critical shortage of skilled workers needed to secure Australian organisations against malicious cyber activity. The certificate and diploma level qualifi...
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24 May 2017
TAFE Student To Redesign The Rockcote Design Centre Gold Coast
QUEENSLAND’S education powerhouse, TAFE Queensland Gold Coast provided their Interior Design students with an opportunity to put what they have learnt into practice. Students were asked to deliver sustainable and environmentally friendly design concepts for a space within the Rockcote Design Centre ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Experience Gold Coast acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are situated, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh Language Region.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connections to the lands, waters and their extended communities throughout Southeast Queensland.