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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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PhotoID:15001, Forum participants L-R Professor Barry Golding, Jan Crowley, Assoc Prof Bobby Harreveld, Shelley Truscott and Sally Thompson

Adult learning peak body visits, calls for 'reassessment'

The president of Australia's peak adult learning body, Professor Barry Golding has visited Rockhampton for a forum calling for a reassessment of adult education in Australia.

CQUniversity hosted the forum at its Ron Smyth Building in Quay Street.

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  • UniNews survey now accessible
    Published on 05 November, 2007

    UniNews, CQU's on-line news and weekly information service, is conducting a survey of its website, the results of which will be used to enhance features and make UniNews more relevant and meaningful to you.

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  • Community calls for more environmental scientists
    Published on 01 November, 2007

    When Dr Judith Wake of CQU Mackay started teaching Environmental Science in Mackay there were more students than job opportunities.

    Now she receives calls regularly asking for students to take on work in Mackay and she is unable to suggest enough students and graduates to meet the demand.

  • Girls focus on the future
    Published on 01 November, 2007

    About 150 girls and their teachers from the Burnett region descended on CQU Bundaberg today as the Focus on Future conference got underway.

    The conference, organised by local school teachers and CQU Bundaberg education staff is designed to be a motivational experience focused on the sciences, maths and information and computer technologies.

  • Literature lovers reflect on massacre of mid-1800s
    Published on 01 November, 2007

    No-one passing the group enjoying coffee and discussing literature in the university courtyard could have guessed they were brought together by a tragic event which occurred about 150 years ago.

    One of the group, Colin Johnson, is a living link to one of the lesser-known massacres of Aborigines by native police which occurred just south of Miriam Vale, after white-settler sheep farmers and their families were killed by local tribesmen.

  • Engineering solutions for regional challenges
    Published on 01 November, 2007

    As climate change compels us to rethink our approaches to natural resource management and related skills development, various authorities are rising to meet the challenges change implies.

    Acting PVC and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health at CQU Peter Wolfs was keynote speaker at the recent Central Queensland Engineering Conference hosted by CQU Bundaberg.