The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (DDIAE) was a tertiary education facility offering undergraduate (Bachelor level and below) degrees and certificates in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia, from the 1967 until it was elevated to University College status (1990) and later University status (1992) as the University of Southern Queensland.
A transition phase between the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education and the University of Southern Queensland, tertiary education facilities based at Darling Heights, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is a medium-sized, regional university based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, with three university campuses at Toowoomba, Springfield and Ipswich. It offers courses in law, health, engineering, the sciences, business, education, and the arts. The institution was established in 1967 as the Darling Downs campus of the Queensland Institute of Technology. In 1970, the institution had provided studying programs for rural Queensland and international communities. In 1971, it became the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, then the University College of Southern Queensland in 1990 and finally the University of Southern Queensland in 1992. It operates three research institutes and seven research centres which focus on a wide range of business, agricultural, scientific, environmental, and technological issues.
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In order to attract staff, DDIAE offered life tenure contracts in the 1960s, even to comparatively junior staff. Many of these early staff remained at Darling Heights until they retired in the late 1990s and early years of the 21st Century.
A life tenure or service during good behaviour is a term of office that lasts for the office holder's lifetime, unless the office holder is removed from office for cause under extraordinary circumstances or chooses to resign.
Loss of the Administration Centre to fire in c.April 1979 has meant not only a loss of historical material, but great difficulty in tracing and verifying graduates from the early days.
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