CQUniversity Australia
 

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.

Full Details…

CQUni graduate job success still ahead of national average 

CQUniversity graduates had an overall full-time employment rate of 80.4% compared with the national average of 76.6% for Australian resident bachelor degree graduates.

That's according to the latest data from Graduate Careers Australia's annual Australian Graduate Survey. The AGS studies the activities of new higher education graduates around four months after the completion of their qualifications.

Further comparisons of the latest AGS results for Australian resident bachelor degree graduates, shows CQUniversity graduates in the study areas of Nursing Basic (96.5%); Building (95%); and Other Engineering (94.4%) were most likely to have job success.

CQUni graduates from Accounting (80%), Business studies (84%), Social Work (80%), Visual/Performing Arts (80%), Psychology (73.3%) and Education Initial (78.8%) also had job-search success above the comparative national averages.