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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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Record number of STEPS students begin at CQU Mackay 

Published on 26 February, 2004 

Over 70 Skills for Tertiary Preparatory Studies (STEPS) students completed Orientation Day activities at Central Queensland University Mackay recently.

PhotoID:1186 STEPS co-ordinator Lyn Forbes-Smith said enrolment figures for 2004 had jumped by 40% above previous years.

“Recent higher education reforms allowed 25 extra places to be offered to mature-age people seeking admission the program,” she said.

“In the past few years we have received a steady amount of interest in the program, with these recent reforms allowing even more students to prepare for university studies.”.

PhotoID:1187 The program relates to improving language, mathematics and research skills and is open to Australian citizens aged 19 years or over.

Full-time 13-week programs start in March and July, with a part-time course running for 26 weeks from March.