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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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Rail research agreement being established with Chinese Uni 

Published on 04 October, 2006 

Professors from South West Jiaotong University in China have visited Central Queensland University’s Centre for Railway Engineering to discuss collaborative research opportunities.

PhotoID:3575 Professor Xuesong Jin and Professor Jing Zeng from the Chinese University met with CRE staff to establish a joint partnership agreement in railway mechanics and engineering research.

“The South West Jiaotong University has excellent testing facilities for railway research. Future cooperation between CRE and South West Jiaotong University will allow more sophisticated experiments to be conducted,” Director of CRE, Associate Professor Remadevi Dhanasekar said.

“The opportunity to combine the facilities of these 2 research bodies will benefit education and innovation in railway research”.

A Memorandum of Understanding between the 2 research bodies of the Centre for Railway Engineering and the Southwest Jiaotong University is currently being drafted.

PhotoID:3576 Photo: (from left) Visiting Professor Xiaoyu Jiang, Dr Fujie Xia (CRE), visiting Professor Jing Zeng, Scott Simson (CRE), Associate Professor Manicka Dhanasekar (CRE), Paul Boyd (CRE), visiting Professor Xuesong Jin and visiting Professor Qiyue Liu.