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DRIVING Queensland students to new heights has always been the goal of the FOGS ARTIE Academy education program. But in 2017, that drive for success became literal with a unique research collaboration between FOGS and the QUT School of Economics (QuBE). QuBE and FOGS have received an Australian Research Council grant to undertake an Individualised Drivers Licence program for eligible participants in the study. Under […]

THE Former Origin Greats organisation has always been about Queenslanders helping Queenslanders. Now, with the ARTIE Academy’s TAFE Tutor Partnership, we are seeing Queenslanders helping Queenslanders helping Queenslanders. Under the new partnership, TAFE students studying Community Service, Youth Work or Education Support are providing support in literacy and numeracy to ARTIE Academy students. This not […]

MY name is Tennachiah Richards and I am a full time grade 12 student, studying at Rockhampton State High School. My Indigenous background includes being of young Aboriginal descendant. My people are from both the Karumble and Yimen tribes. I was born in the year 2000, my Mother Pia had me at the age of […]

THE ARTIE Academy’s motto of ‘Inspire, Encourage, Succeed’ is illustrated through Darcee’s personal journey since she was in Year 8.

NOT since Ursula Andress and Halle Berry have two young ladies been so happy to identify themselves as Bond girls. But this story is not about spies with a licence to kill, it is about the success of the ARTIE Academy and its licence to change the lives of young Queenslanders.

JACOB Johnson could be a poster boy for Queensland’s State of Origin spirit.  The last time Queenslander Magazine caught up with Jacob, he was a member of the ARTIE Academy at Marsden State High School, and preparing himself for what life was about to bring out in the real world. Looking for some direction about […]