Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education was a tertiary education facility offering undergraduate degrees and certificates in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia, from the 1967 until it was elevated to University College status and later University status as the University of Southern Queensland.
DDIAE was originally a campus of the Queensland Institute of Technology.
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.
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.
