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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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Scholarship winner chooses CQU as preferred university 

Published on 16 November, 2005 

Central Queensland University applicant Trent Nigalis will have the support of the Queensland Government through a Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarship next year when he is expected to begin his Bachelor of Learning Management degree in Bundaberg.

Mr Nigalis was presented with the $20,000 scholarship recently at a presentation at Parliament House in Brisbane.

PhotoID:2580 The scholarship will support Mr Nigalis over his four-year degree and guarantees a four-year contract with Education Queensland on gaining a teacher assessment suitability rating of between S1 and S3 on completion of his degree.

Through the Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarships program, the Department of Education and the Arts has offered up to 15 teaching scholarships to applicants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who aspire to be teachers.

The scholarship program is named in honour of Pearl Duncan, an Aboriginal teacher who has dedicated her life to improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in education.

The Kepnock High School Captain said he placed Central Queensland University as his first preference because the University had a campus in his home town.

“I chose CQU Bundaberg because I have my support network here,” Mr Nigalis explained. “I can stay at home and study to become a teacher right here in Bundaberg.”.

“I have friends who are studying the Bachelor of Learning Management degree here and I have already learnt much from their experiences.”.

Mr Nigalis will be studying CQU’s leading teaching degree BLM (Primary) which recently was given the thumbs up by the critics.

PhotoID:2581 The Federal Government released an evaluation of the Bachelor of Learning Management at CQU, prepared for the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

ACER reported that teachers from the BLM reported greater levels of preparedness across almost all areas of teaching compared with graduates from other programs.

“The BLM course appeared to provide them with a strong capability to teach, with good knowledge of curriculum content and pedagogy,” ACER said.

Photo above: Trent Nigalis is congratulated by Pearl Duncan at the scholarship presentation.

Photo left: Trent Nigalis with his scholarship certificate.