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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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Paramedic program pioneers find time to volunteer in Fiji 

Published on 06 March, 2012 

Prue Farquhar and Lauren Newman are proud to be among the pioneering cohort of students in CQUniversity's Paramedic Science program.

They took a two week break from their studies recently to travel to Fiji with VESA - the Volunteer Eco Students Aboard.

PhotoID:12042, Prue (left) and Lauren (right) with friends made during their trip to Fiji
Prue (left) and Lauren (right) with friends made during their trip to Fiji

"We basically lived in a village for a week with the community and the parents of the school we where helping at," Prue says.

"We repainted the school and put in new water tanks and a compost bin. We replanted a hill that had been known for bad mud slides, and we also taught the kids education, mostly about hygiene and our home, and we also played games and had fun with them.

"Then for the second week we toured around some of the islands of Fiji just for a bit of a holiday.  

PhotoID:12043, Prue Farquhar (left) and Lauren Newman in the Paramedic Science labs at CQUniversity Rockhampton
Prue Farquhar (left) and Lauren Newman in the Paramedic Science labs at CQUniversity Rockhampton