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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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Visitor advocates systems at heart of better learning 

Published on 27 March, 2008 

Visiting scholar Dr Philip Morgan has been helping CQU staff achieve a systematic approach to underpin student learning which is motivating and engaging.

Hosted by CQU's Academic Staff Development Unit, Dr Morgan has been explaining how lecturers can improve evaluation processes to gather evidence about their teaching effectiveness from multiple perspectives, including students and peers.

The University of Newcastle academic has recently won 8 local, state and national awards for teaching excellence, including 2 Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching. His PhD also won both local and national awards and he is currently co-supervising 5 PhD students and is a chief investigator on a nationally funded project grant examining childhood obesity.

More background on Dr Morgan is available at: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/education/morganphilip/index.html

PhotoID:5563, Dr Morgan (centre) with L-R Dale Trott, Leone Hinton, Professor Alex Radloff and Ashfaque Chowdhury
Dr Morgan (centre) with L-R Dale Trott, Leone Hinton, Professor Alex Radloff and Ashfaque Chowdhury