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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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CQUniversity supports budding business students 

Published on 24 September, 2009 

CQUniversity was major sponsor of the recent Isis District State High School Australian Business Week (ABW) activities and competition.

Australian Business Week covered the 14-18 September,  for year 11 students.

PhotoID:7863, The Emerald Team hard at work
The Emerald Team hard at work8 teams of 10 were formed and each group was in-charge of running and making business decisions for a 200-room virtual hotel/motel. Assessment tasks for the week included making a video ad, preparing a trade display, developing company reports and giving an oral presentation.

Each of the students who participated in ABW received one (1) point towards their QCE.

CQUniversity sponsored the Emerald Team,  Shaedelle Woodings, Travis Parks, Luke Wright, Felicity Mungomery-Clark, Tyron Vant Hoenderdaal, Sarah Stewart, Shanna James, Sharn Grimley, Royce Blair & Mitchell Blochliger-Jabs.  Mr Andrew Cole, Manual Arts teacher at Isis District SHS supervised their effort.

CQUniversity also provided guest speakers from Bundaberg Campus. Trixie James from Academic Learning Services gave a presentation on report writing and Dr Grayson Cook, Lecturer in Multimedia spoke on making TV advertisements.

Students took notes and commented that they found both of these presentations very useful.  Isis District students found the week to be beneficial and great fun, as it gave them hands on experience with ‘real world' responsibilities.

The week finished with a presentation of awards on the Friday evening.

Overall Winner: Royal Blue Team; Highest Stock Price: Purple Team ; TV Advertisement Winner: Royal Blue Team; Trade Display Winner: Royal Blue Team ; Team Work Award: Red Team; All other teams received participation awards...