The challenge went out to undergraduate and postgraduate staff on the Sydney Campus to join together in a night of fun and frivolity for the 'Challenge Cup'.

The undergraduate staff, though fewer in numbers to the postgraduate staff, focussed on some quality performances.

Community prizes awarded included the Australian Literacy Educators Association Prize, the Catholic Education (Diocese of Rockhampton) Prize, the Iwasaki Resort Scholarship; the Leslie G Duthie Memorial Tourism and Leisure Studies Prize, The Morning Bulletin Prize, the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Inc Prize, the WIN Television Queensland Prize in Broadcasting Journalism and many more.

A training course for Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinators is being promoted by the School of Health and Human Performance at CQU.

The 3-day Commerce Queensland course will be available to University staff, students and interested members of the public, from August 21-23 at CQU Rockhampton.

The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has declined the National Tertiary Education Union's  (NTEU) request to order Central Queensland University (CQU) to provide 3 months' further work to 34 fixed-term staff whose contracts expired on Saturday 30 June.

In its decision, the Commission said that the "contracts [were] not of a continuing nature" and that there was no way of determining if the fixed-term contracts would have lapsed irrespective of any additional consultation sought by the NTEU.

The Division of Human Resources have proudly launched the first stage of the Employee Self Service Online (ESSO) system designed to provide staff with better access to information through more efficient use of University resources.

The new system allows staff to login to a secure web application to access their personal, employment, pay and leave details online and is the first step in improved use of the Human Resources Information System.

Central Queensland University's Language Centre will be conducting a Spanish course commencing Friday 13^th July 2007.

The twelve week course costs $200 plus the cost of a textbook.

A group of dedicated mid-year entry students took their first step to a successful academic career on Wednesday night at the Gladstone campus.

Student Services Counsellor, Pam Brown said it was great to see so many students take up the opportunity to attend the mid-year orientation information night.

A study into people management issues in the Bowen Basin's coalmines has now been completed by a team of CQU researchers, consisting of Professor John Rolfe, Associate Professor Lee Di Milia and Dr Connie Zheng.

The study is significant as it identifies a series of human resource management challenges currently facing the region's most important industry - coal mining.

A drop in the temperature didn't stop the first annual Gladstone Undergraduate Education Student Society (GUESS) toga party from going ahead at CQU Gladstone.

About 60 students and their friends attended the event that was organised by GUESS for all Gladstone students and staff.