Graduates from over 20 countries attended the CQU Brisbane and Gold Coast international campuses graduation ceremony on September 7, at the Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane.

The guest speaker was Mr Cyril Connell, a sportsman who represented Australia, Queensland and Country Queensland in rugby league.

Dr Errol Vieth of the Faculty of Informatics & Communication (pictured below left) recently attended the first meeting of the management group of CMS’ Centre for Intercultural Pedagogy and Learning (CIPL) for 2005, held in Melbourne.

The Centre was established to encourage research into intercultural teaching and learning, exploiting the Australian International Campuses’ unique concentration of international students.

Two undergraduate students have been honoured with Campus Director’s Leadership Awards at CQU Melbourne’s September graduation ceremony.

Pradosh Kumar Sinha (pictured right) has received outstanding results including 12 distinctions and two high distinctions as part of his Bachelor of Information Technology.

Nguyen (Yen) Minh Dieu and Lam anh Vu recently visited CQU Brisbane International Campus as winners of the 'Australia – 1 Country, every opportunity’ English Speaking Contest in their home country of Vietnam.

During their 4-week visit to Australia they were hosted by two Australian families and attended the CQU campuses in Rockhampton and Brisbane.

Part-time CQU student Timothy Hall, of Gracemere, has been named the state’s Apprentice of the Year at the 2005 Queensland Training Awards.

Mr Hall is a full-time engineering cadet at Moura Mine during the week, a boilermaker in Rockhampton at weekends, and studies 3 to 4 hours a night towards a civil engineering degree at CQU.

CQU Sydney academic Michael Nancarrow recently attended a conference for the Australasian Law Teachers Association in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Mr Nancarrow wanted to have the chance to present some ideas and experience from delivering legal education to post-graduate international students.

CQU history lecturer Dr Barbara Webster last week provided 'A Country Viewpoint' to ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program.

Below is a short version of the transcript available at:.

Undergraduate students from CQU Gold Coast International campus recently were involved in an excursion to the Supreme Courts in Brisbane.

The trip was organised by their law lecturer Hugh Zillman, who is a Barrister in NSW, QLD and the High Court.

A group of undergraduate and postgraduate students from CQU Gold Coast have visited the new press and newspaper production facilities at their local 'Bulletin' newspaper.

The students were able to see how a newspaper is produced, commencing at the editorial and journalist sections, through to the art and composition stages and onto the production and processing.

Hundreds of trainee teachers, current teachers and administrators from the public and private education sectors recently gathered at Glenmore High (on Friday, September 9).

The gathering included around 200 trainee teachers (now referred to as ‘learning managers’) from the Faculty of Education and Creative Arts at Central Queensland University.