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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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Mackay's Gordon White library receives a facelift from Education students 

Published on 05 June, 2003 

Central Queensland University education students and clowns entertained about 60 children and parents at Mackay’s Gordon White Library recently.

PhotoID:656The students created a displayed that highlighted the importance of modelled reading and offered advice for encouraging children to read.

CQU Education lecturer Avril Rose said parents could support reading from an early age by fostering a love of literature.

“If parents take children into their lap and create a warm nurturing environment while reading even the youngest children associate reading with pleasure.

“Children also need to see adults model reading for their own pleasure or information. This sends a powerful message to the child that reading is a valuable and worthwhile activity.

“Ideally it would be fantastic if parents found the time to read to them about three stories a day.

PhotoID:657 Australian author Mem Fox believed this amount of reading would attack literacy problems within one generation.

Photo caption: CQU Education students Summer Morrell, Lyndie de Rochfort, Colette Shields and Bronwen Jeffree (back) decorated a section of the Gordon White library recently.