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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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Lifelong learning conference included book launch 

Published on 01 July, 2006 

Central Queensland University hosted the 4th biennial Lifelong Learning Conference from June 13-16, at Rydges Capricorn Resort.

The conference united delegates under the theme 'Partners, Pathways and Pedagogies'.

PhotoID:3163 Australian and overseas delegates enjoyed an array of presentations, including keynotes from Associate Professor Andre Grace, Professor Michael Dureau, Professor Diana Laurillard and Associate Professor Peter Kell.

Also featured was the launch of Dr Sylvia Edwards’s book entitled 'Panning for gold: Information literacy and the Net Lenses model'.

The conference included symposiums on health and information literacy, as well as an ANZIIL (Australian and New Zealand Institute for information Literacy) conversation involving international perspectives of information literacy.

More information about the conference, including the conference program, is available from the website:.

http://lifelonglearning.cqu.edu.au/2006/index.htm . To purchase copies of the proceedings, please contact Delma McDonald on (07) 49309749.

PhotoID:3164 Photo (above): Associate Professor Diana Laurillard, Dr Sylvia Edwards and Associate Professor Christine Bruce following the launch of 'Panning for gold: Information literacy and the Net Lenses model.

Photo (below): Associate Professor Peter Kell presenting his keynote paper 'Equality of opportunity in new times: The politics of learning and the learner in the new world disorder'.