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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 commits to reversing Australia's rail signalling shortage 

Published on 15 March, 2006 

CQU and Rail CRC, the Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering and Technologies, this week (March 15) signed a momentous 2-year licensing agreement, allowing CQU to continue to offer the Rail CRC’s world-first Postgraduate Diploma in Railway Signalling to rail industry personnel around Australia.

PhotoID:2918 CQU's Professor Elizabeth Taylor, AO, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health and Chief Executive Officer of Rail CRC, Professor Dudley Roach, signed the agreement, extending CQU’s rights to the program for a further 2 years to 2007.

With an aging workforce and different signalling practices across state lines due to rail’s early history, the Australian signalling profession has been suffering a skills shortage for many years.

“Rail CRC has been working closely with the rail industry since our inception in 2001 to address the industry’s skills crisis, impacting particularly in the technical and engineering spheres,” said Professor Roach.

The development of the course has been funded by Rail CRC with strong collaboration from industry partners, the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (Australasia) and CQU.

“We have been very pleased with Central Queensland University’s commitment to assist the rail industry’s signalling engineers and commend them for their success with the signalling program since the first licensing agreement was signed and the first students were accepted in 2004,” Professor Roach said.

PhotoID:2919 According to Professor Taylor, CQU now has close to 90 rail industry employees enrolled in various stages of the signalling program, with the first graduates of the 2-year program expected this year and CQU welcoming the third intake at an induction workshop at CQU Sydney International campus recently.

“Due to the success of CQU’s flexible online offering of the course, the program has attracted international interest and may see its offering extended to the United Kingdom and South East Asia in the future,” said Professor Taylor.

Photos: PVC Research and Innovation Professor Jennelle Kyd (right) joins Professor Taylor (CQU) and Professor Roach (CRC Rail) at the signing ... while members of the 2 organisations look on.