CQU Educational Hubs for Indigenous Studies Project

Title: CQU Educational Hubs for Indigenous Studies
Project
1. Project Title
CQU educational hubs for Indigenous studies project.
2. Concept
CQ University strives to enhance students’ education, understanding and awareness of local indigenous
people on their respective campuses.
3. Background
The School of Engineering and Technology (SET) Indigenisation Committee (The Committee) is
interested in projects that give visibility to the world’s oldest living culture by acknowledging the
traditional custodians of the lands the campuses are built on. The Committee has decided to establish
educational hubs which encourage and support education, understanding and awareness of local
indigenous people. Please refer to Moodle (weeks 2 and 3) regarding documentation on protocols in
dealing with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Further the Committee would like to include the design and build of educational hubs at five (5) CQU
campuses situated at Rockhampton, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. The project scope will
include the selection of suitable venue and facilities (within existing CQU buildings) for conversion to
educational hubs. The Committee also requests opening ceremonies be organised and conducted, at
each of these new educational hubs.
The Chair of the Committee wants further information before raising this project with the relevant funding
body. The Committee agreed it would be good to have the project plan released to coincide with the
National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) week in July 2020. The
Committee has estimated that the total project should cost no more than $1 million dollars (AUD) (i.e.
approximately $200k per educational hub). The $1million includes capital cost only and excludes rent
and on-going operational costs. The Committee chair as has expressed a desire for the project team to
identify cost savings, wherever possible, and for the project to be completed by the middle of 2021.
4. Preferred Project
The Committee has requested a project to acknowledge the local indigenous people by undertaking the
following activities at selected CQ University premises. The project comprises three major stages:
(i) Source and secure suitable facility space for conversion to educational hubs (including negotiating
leasing arrangements);
(ii) Design and build educational hubs at selected CQU campuses; and
(iii) Organise and conduct opening ceremonies that acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands
upon which educational hubs are built on.
The Committee has indicated that members of local indigenous people be one of the key stakeholders
in this project. In addition, the Committee has requested that during the project any contact with
indigenous Australians be undertaken in a respectful and culturally appropriate manner.
5. Your Task
The Chair of the Committee, Dr Shane Doyle, has tasked you with providing the project board with
further information regarding the project. The Chair will act as the Project Executive for the project
board. You are to develop a tailored project plan that reflects the project described in this document
and which aligns with PMBoK and Prince2 requirements.
6. Due Date
This submission is due Week 8 (i.e. 8am Monday 9th September, 2019).

7. Template
The Project Executive has supplied a template, which has been tailored to suit the organisational
context and incorporates elements of the project plan and charter. You must use the template supplied
for the assessment on Moodle. Please ensure you delete all blue explanatory text prior to submitting
your work.
8. Marking breakdown
The marking breakdown below for the submission is reflected in the content headings of the template
provided. To avoid losing marks ensure you understand the project topic, the content headings and
check your writing quality, including spelling, grammar, etc.
Content of project submission Marks %
Project description 4 8 %
Stakeholders 10 20 %
Requirements management 5 10 %
Scope 10 20 %
Schedule 6 12 %
Cost Baseline 6 12 %
Risks 5 10 %
Tolerances 2 4 %
Lessons learnt 2 4 %
TOTAL MARKS 50 100 %
9. Group assessment
Assessment task 2 is a group assessment. To constitute a group, there must be a minimum of three
students - and a maximum of four students (per group) AND each member of the group must be
enrolled in the same tutorial.
Note: Flex students can elect to complete this project individually or in a group.
10. Plagiarism
DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR GROUP ANSWERS TO OTHER GROUPS
Each term groups are investigated for academic misconduct, which includes the group members who
authored the original submission.
It is your responsibility to ensure you understand what constitutes academic misconduct and the
consequences. All members of your group will be found guilty regardless of who in the group provided
(or failed to secure) the submission, as well as those who copied.
NOTES:
1. Students are reminded that this project is a scenario (i.e. a hypothetical case study) only,
and therefore no actual contact is required, with any indigenous Australians, in order to
facilitate this case study.

INFORMATION PAGE
[Students to complete]
PROJECT NAME: CQU EDUCATIONAL HUBS
FOR INDIGENOUS STUDIES
PROJECT
TERM & ASSIGNMENT # TERM 2, ASSIGNMENT 2
TITLE: PROJECT PLAN
STUDENT
NAME
STUDENT
NUMBER
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED (BE
SPECIFIC)
CAMPUS: <<Insert campus or distance>>
TUTOR: <<Insert tutor name>>
TUTORIAL NUMBER: <<Insert the tutorial number>>

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Project Description (Total = 4 marks)
2. Stakeholders (Total = 10 marks)
3. Requirements Management (Total = 5 marks)
4. Scope (Total = 10 marks)
5. Schedule (Total = 6 marks)
6. Cost Baseline (Total = 6 marks)
7. Risks (Total = 5 marks)
8. Tolerances (Total = 2 marks)
9. Lessons Learnt (Total = 2 marks)

Instructions for Students
1. This document is a template with response tables for you to complete and has
been tailored to suit the assessment.
2. Instructions and guidance notes are provided in blue italicized to provide an
explanation of what should be included in your responses.
3. Please remove all blue text prior to using Turnitin and uploading your
complete response into Moodle.
4. Where there are two or more options for you to decide between, revert to the
option you are keeping in black and remove the other.
5. This assignment is designed for educational purposes to assess your
understanding of specific topics presented in this scenario.
6. Marks by Section:

1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
1.1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION, BACKGROUND AND MAJOR DELIVERABLES
Response Table
1 Description The purpose of this project is to enhance cultural awareness
among living people about these old indigenous cultures.
The aim of the project is to construct 5 different educational
hubs in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and
Rockhampton for increasing awareness regarding traditional
culture and also to hold up and support understanding and
knowledge of the local people. For successful discussion
about the project that would be implementing, appropriate
venue and respective facilities are also identified in this
project.
The development committee will also conduct inauguration
ceremony after successful construction of each education
hub. In additional to this, the committee also needs the plan
to be coincide with NAIDOC.
2 Background Aboriginal Australians are world’s oldest continuing cultures
who are still surviving. These people are world’s first
modern humans who have negotiated the unknown territory
in Australia as well as Asia. The school of Engineering and
Technology (SET) is concerned in those projects which
gives visibility to these types of oldest living culture through
acknowledging different traditional custodians of the domain
on which campuses are build on.
3 Major Deliverables The major deliverables of the project are as follows:
 To design and construct education hubs in five
different locations of Australia- Perth, Melbourne,
Brisbane, Rockhampton and Sydney and also
selection of an appropriate venue where the project
related discussion will be conducted
 To complete the project by end of 2021 in the budget
of $1 Million
 To conduct inauguration ceremony after the
construction of each education hub
1.2 JUSTIFICATION (3 MARKS)