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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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Safe bet that OHS profession aware CQU an important partner 

Published on 04 September, 2006 

Australia's OHS profession is now even more aware of CQU's importance as a partner in future developments, thanks to the University's extensive involvement in a Safety Institute of Australia conference (Aug 31-Sept 1) in Yeppoon.

CQU senior lecturer in OHS Yvonne Toft said many successes and potential opportunities arose from the University's involvement with the SIA\'s Visions Conference, held in Central Queensland for the first time.

PhotoID:3088 "The SIA organizers brought this conference to Central Queensland to celebrate CQU’s contribution to the profession in producing excellent OHS graduates over the last 10 years," Ms Toft said.

CQU was a gold sponsor of the conference and participated by way of a trade show and through presentations by staff and students.

The 250+ delegates at the conference included 6 CQU staff members, 28 current students and 20 graduates. According to Ms Toft, all were fantastic ambassadors for CQU programs.

She said a major achievement had been integration of the OHS residential school with the conference.

"This year both residential school groups were required to deliver a conference presentation as part of their assessment. The residential school students also attended conference keynote presentations and heard from other conference speakers".

Ms Toft said 20 presentations at the conference were delivered under the CQU banner.

This included 6 presentations by CQU staff, 8 presentations by postgraduates and 6 presentations by undergraduates.

PhotoID:3089 Ms Toft said many preliminary discussions were held with OHS professionals, OHS organisations and industry representatives, which should lead to many opportunities for CQU to be involved in future projects.

"A very strong demand for Masters in OHS by coursework and research was evident from all sectors including our own students," Ms Toft said.

Photo (above): Mining industry worker and CQU Graduate Diploma OHS student Chris Reddy was among presenters at the SIA conference.

Photo (below): Gladstone environmental engineer and CQU Graduate Diploma OHS student Pam Tummers was also among presenters.