QIBT没有受到布里斯班洪水的影响，已于1月17日恢复正常上课

Dear Partner and Students,

While not diminishing the seriousness of the impact to some of the Queensland community, QIBT wishes to advice all our education agents that:

·         QIBT re-opened on Monday January 17

·         Students and Lecturers are back to normal classes. 

·         QIBT is not situated in an area which has been affected by flooding;

·         Most students and staff have also not been affected; 

·         We have put in place processes to ensure students have not been disadvantaged in their studies;

·         We have retained the same semester dates and not changed any of the semester dates so air tickets already booked by some students to go home in the holiday, remain valid;

·         Public transport is back to nearly 100% full capacity. 

·         The Brisbane airport is open for business, and at no point was closed

·         All on campus accommodation remains open and has not been affected

·         Most suburbs in and around Griffith University/QIBT have remained unaffected – and therefore home stay and general accommodation has not been affected

We continue to look forward to welcoming our new students for semester 1, 2011 and want to assure you, as well as the parents and friends of QIBT students – new and continuing – that while the flood was devastating for those in low lying areas and around the river, many other areas were not affected and so businesses remain open.      

The generosity of volunteers in helping to clean up those affected areas is overwhelming and I am proud to say that many QIBT students and staff were amongst those offering assistance.  It is this type of community spirit which brings honour to the QIBT students and its community.

Please contact QIBT if you have any questions.

Thanks