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Mount Isa Council in push for University of Queensland engineering campus in town
Despite the town being known as Australia’s mining capital, Mount Isa’s City Council has had to plead with major universities to offer related degrees locally.
Key points:
- The Mount Isa City Council has asked the University of Queensland to establish a campus in town
- Mayor Danielle Slade says locals wanting to study mining have to travel at least 1,300 kilometres away
- James Cook University runs a similar campus in the city for students studying health degrees like nursing and physiotherapy
Currently if a Mount Isa local wants to study engineering, they need to travel at least 1,300 kilometres away — even though there’s a copper, zinc and lead mine less than a kilometre away from the main street of the town.
It’s a situation that Mayor…
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