The Office of Indigenous Engagement recently got involved in O-Week activities in Mackay and Rockhampton.

While there are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students studying throughout Australia, there are a larger number of Indigenous students in the greater Rockhampton, Mackay and Bundaberg areas.

The annual Orientation Day for distance students was held recently at CQUniversity's Emerald Learning Centre. It was a day of motivational learning for everyone.

CQUniversity Mackay and Training Queensland recently hosted the first of four regional Training Reference Group meetings for around 30 training professionals.

The attendees included representatives from a wide range of stakeholders in the Vocational Education and Training Sector from both government and private organisations including Department of Education, Training and Employment (DETE), CQ TAFE, Group Training Organisations, Registered Training Organisations and Australian Apprenticeship Centres.

Two CQUniversity academics have won a 'best paper' award in India for exploring how medical tourists search for information before embarking on their journey.

Watched by conference delegates from around the world, Anita Medhekar and Leonce Newby discussed that global medical tourism is the fastest growing healthcare service sector.

Universities can no longer rely on corporate image to impress and this is particularly true for institutions which have ‘virtual' relationships with students.

In fact, universities should be shifting from being product-led (relying on the product to sell), towards a more customer-led approach, and prospective customers are looking for clues about the organisation's capabilities and service quality before purchasing higher education services.

Supporters of the Relay for Life have injected drive into their campaign by posing with a classic car outside the Cancer Council Queensland HQ in Rockhampton.

The photo stunt was designed to promote this year's 'car' theme for the Relay, held each May at CQUniversity Rockhampton Campus.

A long-standing supplier of executive recruitment services to CQUniversity, UniRecruit, has partnered with the University to help improve the educational outcomes, employment and life opportunities of Indigenous students.

UniRecruit is donating $30,000 to support a pilot of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) in Rockhampton for the next three years.

Academics from the USA, Sydney and Melbourne have participated in a debate on different types of domestic violence at a public seminar in Brisbane (Feb 21).

The seminar was hosted by the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research (CDFVR), CQUniversity and was officially opened by Queensland Minister for Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services, Tracy Davis.

The Rockhampton Campus Reception at the highway-side entrance to the commercial courtyard continues to be a one-stop-shop for general student queries.

A joint venture between the Student Centres and Division of Marketing, the reception aims to provide students with a central point of contact on Rockhampton Campus.

For Nursing students arriving from Asia, finding their way around CQUniversity's Rockhampton Campus was not the biggest culture shock of Orientation Week.

The most confronting aspect would have been meeting a true blue Aussie codger who arrived with pyjama bottoms gaping open and gushing phrases like 'buggered' and 'dry as a dead dingo'.