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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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Enterprising Mackay students in the spirit to win national award 

Published on 22 July, 2011 

A CQUniversity 'Students in Free Enterprise' group has won one of four Spirit of SIFE awards from the SIFE National Championships, held recently in Sydney.

CQUniversity Mackay SIFE presented projects they had worked on during the year, including the highly successful Mighty Foods Save the Circus and CHOICES.

PhotoID:11173, The CQUniversity SIFE group celebrates their award
The CQUniversity SIFE group celebrates their award

Competing against 21 other Australian universities was quite a challenge, according to CQUniversity Mackay SIFE president, Stephanie McKenna, who is a third-year Bachelor of Theatre student.

"The competition is stiff. Some unis have over 100 people in their SIFE teams. We have just 16. However it was great to catch up with our friends from all over Australia," said Stephanie.

Faculty Advisor for CQUniversity Mackay SIFE, Kim Kirkman, mentioned how well the CQUniversity students performed.

"In front of industry leaders our students had no fear. Many other students from other universities congratulated our team on how well they had performed," said Kim.

The team has now successfully gained two grants of $8000 that allow them to travel to the competition.