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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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CQU alumnus helps encourage students in remote Indigenous communities 

Published on 07 December, 2005 

Former CQU student and staff member John Wenitong (pictured) is now senior project officer with the Higher Expectations program of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership.

PhotoID:2729 Macquarie Bank has just entered a 3-year partnership to support the Higher Expectations Program (HEP), which aims to encourage students in remote Indigenous communities to pursue tertiary education.

The Cape York Institute, under the directorship of prominent Indigenous leader Noel Pearson, is a new public policy organisation that champions reform and innovation in Indigenous and social welfare policies.

Mr Pearson was quoted in Wednesday's (Dec 7) Australian newspaper as saying that "sending Aboriginal children to board at exclusive city private schools was vital for them to succeed and would transform their communities".

PhotoID:2730 Details are at: http://www.cyi.org.au/ .

Photo: Some of the Cape York scholarship students Mr Wenitong was involved with in 2005. Also pictured (in 66 T-shirt) is his niece Naomi Wenitong fromn the singing duo 'Shakaya' who assists with role model and mentoring work when back at home in Cairns.