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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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Research Cycles 

Published on 13 March, 2003 

CQU, the Australian Sports Commission and the Queensland Academy of Sport have teamed up on an 18-month research project to identify young people in the CQ region who have natural, raw cycling talent.

PhotoID:525 In the first program of its kind to be run in regional Australia, researchers will assess of about five thousand 13-to-26-year olds in Rockhampton, Yeppoon and Mount Morgan. The group will be culled to fewer than 100 students who will undergo high power training and physiological testing at CQU.

The Rockhampton area is home to cycling champions including the Meares sisters, Anna and Kerri, and newcomer Wade Cosgrove.

“It’s an industry partnership, strategically located in region Queensland that is developing untapped Australian talent,” said Dr Peter Raeburn, Head of the School of Health and Human Performance.