When Howard Cassidy started teaching drama at CQU (then Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education), Australia had just qualified for its first World Cup Soccer finals.

Over the next 32 years, there has been a dearth of soccer finals, but thousands of student actors have produced hundreds of productions.

From this Thursday November 17 through to Saturday November 19, members of the public can see CQU @ Caneland Central.

Central Queensland University Mackay will be operating an information booth over the 3-day period to give interested people the opportunity to investigate study options at Mackay Campus.

An alternate entry memorandum was signed this week between Gladstone’s local high schools, Central Queensland University and the Central Queensland Institute of TAFE.

The memorandum aims to create more flexibility for students wishing to gain entry into CQU’s undergraduate engineering programs.

The latest 'Idiom 23' literary magazine will be launched from 6pm this Friday, November 18, at Rockhampton's Walter Reid Cultural Centre.

The exceptional collection of short stories and poems (Volume 17 in the series) will be launched by CQU Professor Alan Knight.

Central Queensland University applicant Trent Nigalis will have the support of the Queensland Government through a Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarship next year when he is expected to begin his Bachelor of Learning Management degree in Bundaberg.

Mr Nigalis was presented with the $20,000 scholarship recently at a presentation at Parliament House in Brisbane.

CQU’s Director of the Engineering Co-op Program and Industry Liaison for engineering students Ian Devenish toured Pennsylvania College of Technology’s (Penn College) School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies last week.

Penn College offers a semester-long study abroad opportunity to students at CQU, and Mr Devenish is exploring the prospects of placing students at Penn, both to study and to gain industrial work experience.

CQU has welcomed Premier Beattie's recent focus on the looming IT skills crisis, saying it should help convince students choose viable career paths.

The University's Informatics Dean Associate Professor Kevin Tickle said the Premier's acknowledgement of the looming shortage meant students should have no qualms about striving towards IT and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) careers.

Sydney International Campus academic Dr Ergun Gide has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intelligent Technology (IJIT).

Dr Gide said the IJIT is a scholarly peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, quarterly, international scientific journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in intelligent technology.

Minister for Education and the Arts Rod Welford launched CQU Press’ national anthology of short stories, 'Travellers’ Tales' on Friday, November 11 at Parliament House.

'Travellers’ Tales' is a culmination of work from 33 gifted writers including winners of the Australian Vogel and Age Book of the Year prizes.

Professor Jack Wood (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, International) and Ros Dunphy, a representative of Nulloo Yumbah (CQU’s Indigenous Learning, Spirituality and Research Centre) visited the Sydney International campus to present a framed Reconciliation Statement to the Campus Director, Barbara Abou-Lehaf.

Professor Wood and Ms Dunphy, a representative of the Darumbal people (the custodians of the land on which the first CQU campus was built) acknowledged the importance of the Reconciliation Statement and of CQU’s commitment to the reconciliation process with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.