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CQUni Ms Duignan-George said
CQUniversity’s Cairns campus offers
accommodates study options in all these key career
areas and are ready to meet the future
workforce employment demands.
“CQUniversity Cairns currently
transition from supports more than 1800 on-campus
and online students across the region,
hands to heads and we anticipate this will continue
to grow over the coming years,” Ms
Duignan-George said. The Centre features state-of-the-art
CRUISING IN STYLE “Our campus supports students aviation simulation technologies
and addresses the needs of the
With one quarter of Australia’s aviation industry through the delivery
workforce anticipated to be of world-class higher education
professionals by 2030, it is little Our course training.
wonder many north Queensland offerings Thanks to the Centre, CQUniversity is
students are turning to CQUniversity providing the aviation industry with
Cairns to help leverage them into have been highly skilled graduate pilots.
future careers. strategically
That’s according to CQUniversity’s
Associate Vice-Chancellor for Cairns designed to meet the
and Far North Queensland, Jodie needs of our community STUDY WITH CONFIDENCE
Duignan-George, who said the
University’s course offerings are and industries, now and OUTSTANDING
well aligned with the anticipated into the future EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES *
workforce transition. CQUni performs well above average, with
79.5% of undergraduates (national average
The latest Deloitte Insights report 72.3%) in full-time employment.
says the 2030 workforce will be driven Jodie Duignan-George,
by a continued shift towards non- Associate Vice-
Chancellor
routine, cognitive-based jobs, with 5 STARS FOR TEACHING QUALITY **
most career offerings projected to CQUni has achieved five stars for our first-generation
be in business, health, education or across a range of disciplines from student ratio, full-time employment, starting
salary, social equity and student support.
engineering. engineering to aviation, business
The report also states that both within to nursing, and communication to INDUSTRY RELEVANCE
and outside the professional cohort, information technology. Our courses are designed alongside
industry to prepare you with up-to-date,
people who spend a large part of “Our course offerings have been real-world knowledge and skills.
their role interacting with others will strategically designed to meet AUSTRALIA’S FIRST
dominate the employment landscape. the needs of our community and CHANGEMAKER CAMPUS
In fact, more than 400,000 people are industries, now and into the future.” CQUni is recognised as Australia’s first
expected to be employed in each of One of the milestones of the last and only Changemaker Campus by global
social innovation group Ashoka U.
the following occupations: teaching, year in Cairns has been the official
midwifery and nursing, personal care, opening of the Cairns Aviation *ComparED 2019.
administration and sales. Centre, located at the Cairns Airport. ** The Good Universities Guide 2020.

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