[3] Upon completion of 13 years of schooling, students receive a Queensland Certificate of Education and an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank used for tertiary education entrance.
Many schools are finding it difficult to fill teacher vacancies.
[5] In recent year Queensland has seen an increase in home schooling enrolments.
It provided education for the children of convicts from the first settlement in Moreton Bay.
[8] Under the Act, education in Queensland is free, secular and compulsory.