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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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CQU programs up for Carrick Awards 

Published on 31 July, 2006 

Two CQU programs have been nominated for a Carrick Award in the category ‘Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning”.

The Bachelor of Engineering (Co-op) Program has been nominated under the category of “Educational Partnerships and collaborations with other organisations”, whilst the Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies (STEPS) program has been nominated under the category “Services supporting student learning for specific groups of students”.

The Carrick Institute will confer 14 national Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning – awards that will recognise learning and teaching support programs and services that make an outstanding contribution to the quality of student learning and the quality of the student experience of higher education.

Announced in October this year, the winners will receive $25 000 at the annual CAAUT presentation ceremony.

These recent nominations come on the back of CQU’s Jenny Simpson’s recent successful Carrick Award for “Citation for outstanding contributions to student learning”.