University of Queensland to leave Dayboro vet clinic, seeks new operator

The University of Queensland has verified designs to shift all veterinary teaching to Gatton, closing its long-running professional veterinary coaching clinic at Dayboro.

The college declared plans to shut the 34-calendar year-old Dayboro vet clinic, north of Brisbane, late very last year.

The go sparked problems from regional cattle farmers that they would be remaining devoid of accredited cattle vets shut by, with the only other clinic about an hour and a half generate from Dayboro.

UQ agreed to postpone the initial closure slated for March and enter into a lengthier session period with area farmers, college students and the field.

On Thursday, UQ Faculty of Veterinary Science head Professor Nigel Perkins reported in a assertion that the university experienced designed the “hard decision to look for a new operator for the Dayboro Veterinary Clinic to be certain it can go on to serve the area neighborhood”.

“We will be pinpointing a new operator by an expression of curiosity process, which is envisioned to get until eventually the finish of September,” Professor Perkins claimed.

Nationwide Tertiary Education and learning Union UQ department president Andrew Bonnell explained the closure would see nine continuing team created redundant and six everyday positions discontinued.

In 2012, UQ closed its smaller animal clinic at St Lucia and in 2013, invested $2.4 million in upgrading its Dayboro amenities.

A petition was released protesting the proposed closure late past yr, garnering hundreds of signatures, triggering a city hall assembly with UQ associates and the Dayboro group.

Professor Perkins mentioned veterinary science and veterinary engineering instructing will move from Dayboro to Gatton, west of Brisbane.

The college will stop operations at Dayboro on June 30, but with the expression of desire procedure continuing into September for a new clinic operator, UQ mentioned it would “continue on to guidance the clinic working”.