Fifteen high schools across Queensland, including Capella State High School, have been announced as Agribusiness Gateway to Industry schools as part of a CQUniversity-led project that connects secondary schools with agriculture leaders and creates real-world learning experiences.
As well as offering students mentoring, hands-on learning and career opportunities and pathways, the Agribusiness Gateway to Industry Schools Project delivers specialist training to teachers, equipping them to support students who want to work in the growing number of roles that now support primary industries – including school-based traineeships and apprenticeships.
The 15 schools will receive dedicated guidance during 2025 from the CQU Agri-tech Education and Extension team and industry partners, to integrate agriculture into curriculum and create ongoing partnerships with local agriculture industries.
The schools will also each receive $2,500 to support new initiatives with local agricultural industry and incorporate new resources including AgTech in the classroom.
Interim Director for CQUniversity’s Institute for Future Farming Systems, Professor Amy Cosby, said that the project team was looking forward to leading the initiative across Queensland.
“We’re very excited at CQU to be leading this initiative, and to be supporting teachers and students to connect with agriculture, an industry vital to the Queensland economy” Professor Cosby said.
