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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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30 girls from regional Queensland attend Camp Discovery at CQU Rockhampton 

Thirty girls from the Mackay-Barcaldine-Gympie triangle were at CQU Rockhampton for Camp Discovery - a 3-day camp for senior high school students interested in study options in arts, humanities and education (July 17-19).

PhotoID:3299 The camp gave participants the chance to experience University life and to stay at the Capricornia College residential facility.

Activities included hands-on workshops, guest speakers including graduates and careers and study information.

Sessions included performance poetry, animation antics, physical education play, poetry slam, dance theatre, maniac maths, Japanese language and culture, tourism, literacy and cultural studies, history, geography and music.

PhotoID:3300 Photo (above): Kaela Chengody (Whitsunday Christian College) and Rebecca Hall (Mirani High).

Photo (below): Glenmore High (Rockhampton) students Samantha Bianchi, Tahnee Boyd and Kirstie Prothero were among 30 girls attending Camp Discovery at CQU Rockhampton this week.