The Action Capricorn Buy Local committee identified Julie Holbeck's potential based on her high school results and offered her a scholarship package worth more than $5000 to encourage her to continue studying in her home city of Rockhampton.

Now Julie has paid back the committee's confidence by graduating from CQU (this Saturday, March 11) with Bachelor of Accounting and Bachelor of Business Information Systems degrees, both with Distinction.

The CQU Student Association’s 2005 Student Diary was recently awarded as ‘Best Student Diary’ at the national ACUMA Awards for excellence, judged on its practical application, cover design, layout and design and use of design elements.

ACUMA is the Australasian Campus Union Managers' Association.

During the weekend of March 5-6, the CQU Student Portal (http://mycqu.cqu.

Capricornia College residential assistant Sachin Benjamin is relishing his role ensuring students get the right mix of fun, socialising, sleep and study.

The accounting student from Bangalore in India helps with liaison between students and staff and assists with the organisation of college events.

Canadian students (pictured top from left) Brian White, Panayiota (Yiota) Tsentouros and Tyler Meakin have followed the sun to CQU Rockhampton to turn their undergraduate degrees into postgraduate teaching qualifications.

Checking the website for Canteach Educational Consultants, they found the costs of moving to Rockhampton for an entire academic year comparable with those of moving elsewhere in Canada or the United States.

Central Queensland University has announced its support of an upcoming youth conference, subsidising the costs of tickets and transportation that will help bring an estimated 800 high school students from all over the region to the Rockhampton Step to the Future Youth Forum on March 10 at the Pilbeam Theatre.

The Forum is designed to instil in students a very positive attitude about their future.

Organisers of CQU's recent Learning and Teaching Showcase have proclaimed the event a success, with more than 200 attendances at sessions across the 3 days.

The Showcase included:.

CQU’s Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health will trial a new collaborative venture when about 20 cadets employed by BMA are enrolled into mining-focused engineering programs at the commencement of the 2006 academic year.

Rennie Fritschy, Chancellor of CQU and Professor Elizabeth Taylor AO (Executive Dean Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health) were guests of honour at the launch of BMA’s ‘Skills for Growth’ initiatives.

The Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM) has recently been awarded a grant of $34,000 from the ABC to help stage the CQCM Jazz Tour, after a successful application through the ABC’s regional production fund by CQU Adjunct Professor Ross Quinn.

“The $34,000 grant will be added to the existing funds for the tour and enable us to secure a headline performer,” said Professor Jim Mienczakowski, Director of the CQCM.

Thursday was perhaps the highlight of the week for first-year students at Central Queensland University Mackay who have been participating in Orientation Week for the past three days.

By lunchtime, students and staff were kicking back and relaxing with a Mexican-style lunch and an afternoon of Pirate Interfaculty Games.