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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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French students sample Aussie wildlife 

Published on 13 November, 2006 

French students Ophelie Beets and Charlotte Baudry have been sampling wildlife on a 3-month visit hosted by CQU's Centre for Environmental Management.

The pair, who are at the French equivalent of Master's level, are completing a research internship for their programs at ENSAR, l'Ecole Nationale Supirieure Agronomique de Rennes (the National Higher Agronomic School at Rennes).

PhotoID:3546 They recently spent 2 weeks on St Bee's Island, off Mackay, with CQU's Dr Alistair Melzer, American PhD candidate Stephanie Januchowski and a group of Earthwatch volunteers.

The French visitors monitored koalas and gathered data and faecal samples to gauge the impact on koala habitat from swamp wallabies. They have also spent 24-hours monitoring koalas' behavioural patterns at Rockhampton Zoo.

Now the fieldwork is over, they are collating data and analysing samples (some with the help of the EPA ).

PhotoID:3547 Ophelie and Charlotte made contact with CQU after a previous ENSAR student - Meriem Khadiri - spent time with the Centre for Environmental Management.

Photo (above): Ophelie and Charlotte (centre) in monitoring mode on St Bees Island.

Photo (below): The French students collate their data.