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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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CQUni helps make 'first of its kind' conference in Malaysia a success 

Published on 24 February, 2011 

CQUniversity was recently the joint organiser and a major sponsor for the International Engineering and Technology Education Conference (IETEC), held at Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur during January...

The 130 academics and experts who attended from 25 different countries contributed 75 papers across 16 plenary presentation sessions, including a special Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate presentation session from CDIO experts.

PhotoID:10491, Conference general chair Dr Arun Patil, from CQUniversity, addresses the delegates
Conference general chair Dr Arun Patil, from CQUniversity, addresses the delegates

Conference general chair Dr Arun Patil, from CQUniversity, said the event was "truly international" because it was jointly organised by Australia's CQUniversity in conjunction with Taylor's University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (Malaysia (UTHM).

Dr Patil said the event featured four interactive pre-conference workshops, facilitated by international experts.

Conference banquet highlights included a launch for the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education (IJQAETE), for which Dr Patil was Editor-in-Chief. The banquet was also the venue for the launch of an academic book by a staff member from UTM.

During the conference, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between CQUniversity (represented by Engineering Dean, Associate Professor Alan McPhail) and Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania (represented by the Rector, Professor Constantin Oprean).

PhotoID:10492, Associate Professor Alan McPhail (right) signs an MOU with Professor Constantin Oprean, Rector, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Associate Professor Alan McPhail (right) signs an MOU with Professor Constantin Oprean, Rector, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaDr Patil said CQUniversity was proud to be integrally involved in such an important global event, which should led to future partnership opportunities.

Several CQUniversity academics were involved in running the globally-networked event, Dr Patil as general chair, program chair Professor Ken Hawkins, steering committee chair Dr Patrick Keleher, committee members Dr Fae Martin and Dr Amanullah M Than Oo, finance and budgeting co-chair Win Wagner and technical support co-chair Joshua Born.

The event featured significant keynote addresses, plenary presentation sessions, interactive workshop tracks, a panel discussion, exhibition stalls and opportunities for international collaborations.