The Queensland Univeristy of Technology seems to be one of the new emerging places to study game development in Australia to rival establishments like the AIE and Qantm, and it looks like they now have some extra support from Microsoft. Reported from AustralianIT...
"QUEENSLAND University of Technology plans to teach students to design games exclusively for Xbox, following a research grant from Microsoft...QUT received a $US15,000 ($19,500) grant from Microsoft Research Asia to fund course development and a new lab of Microsoft's Xbox consoles for students to work on.
QUT is believed to be the first university in the country to offer an Xbox programming component in its degree.
"This (Xbox) will be the first offering because Microsoft have come through with the funding," Ross Brown, from QUT's visual and media computing group said."