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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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  • Students Urged to Party Safely
    Published on 22 October, 2009

    Year 12 students in the Mackay, Moranbah and Whitsunday areas are being urged to party responsibly, especially with "Schoolies" just around the corner.

    Queensland Government departments of Health, Police, Communities and Transport have partnered together with CQ University and the Whitsunday Schoolies Committee to promote safety messages to senior school students.

  • Steps Students Celebrate Completion for 2009
    Published on 21 October, 2009

    CQUniversity Emerald Campus celebrated the 2009 STEPS (Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies) Completion Ceremony on Wednesday 14th October.

    Students were presented with their Completion Certificates by Karen Seary, Director of Studies, Academic Learning Services and Division of Library and Academic LearningServices.

  • Tenacity Leads to STEPS success
    Published on 21 October, 2009

    Whilst at first plying his trade as a baker from age 16, and plodding through a number of labouring jobs, Will Butler became ever more convinced that leaving school half-way through grade 11 was not the greatest idea after all, even though he, "..

  • STEPS Graduates Discover Themselves
    Published on 21 October, 2009

    On Monday 12th October Bundaberg Campus held a ceremony for 102 graduating STEPS (Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies) students, affectionately known as "STEPPIES". Over 120 family & friends of the students attended the event with special guests including Head of CQUniversity Bundaberg, Professor Phillip Clift and Mayor, Councillor Lorraine Pyefinch.

  • Sharon Took STEPS Toward Degree
    Published on 20 October, 2009

    Sharon Marshall recently graduated from CQ University's STEPS (Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies) Program, winning the Gladstone Regional Council Bursary a well.

    Sharon, from a "working family" enjoyed school, however, falling in with the wrong crowd distracted her from study, and eventually she left to work and travel around Australia.

  • Parthenium, More than a Weed, a Health Menace
    Published on 20 October, 2009

    Diane Goldsworthy's background in nursing, with a focus on community health, led to her developing an interest in allergies and immunology. That, combined with a chance meeting with a Central Queensland grazier who'd had a nasty experience with the weed, resulted in her pursuing research on Parthenium hysterophorus.