Student updates

Townsville mum Katya Sobotnik has turned her passion for bringing people together into an exciting career pathway, studying event management with TAFE Queensland while juggling family life and hands-on industry experience.

Are you passionate about creating a more inclusive, respectful, and empowering learning environment? Do you want your voice to help shape the future of diversity and inclusion at TAFE Queensland?

Santener Sakina is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa and was born profoundly deaf.

At 53, Karren Edmonds is proving it's never too late to chase a lifelong dream.

At TAFE Queensland, we believe students should be at the centre of decision-making, and now, they are.

After 12 years, Rebekah Taylor’s career in optometry was steady, until it wasn’t. At 28-years-old, the career she’d built hit a dead end, and not knowing what to do next terrified her.

When 22-year-old Ahmad Fadhil Soddam Lubis, or Loui to his classmates, watched a once-shy young netballer take charge during a training drill, something clicked.

When TAFE Queensland hairdressing graduate Lexie Shay returned to campus to speak with current students, her message was clear – never forget why you started.

TAFE Queensland’s Charters Towers campus has welcomed three passionate new teachers, each bringing their own experience and enthusiasm to help shape the region’s future workforce.

Ben Smyth, a Chinchilla local and TAFE Queensland student, is undertaking a Certificate III in Electrotechnology Electrician (UEE30820) apprenticeship — powering up a successful career in the sector.