CQUniversity graduate Jordan Edmeades is continuing to find favour with his role as Basil Fawlty in the Faulty Towers Dining Experience, with his latest show taking him to The Netherlands.

"I might have mentioned the war but I think I got away with it," quipped Jordan (in Basil mode) during a recent Email to friends from his days at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Mackay.

CQUniversity Social Work student Kattie Butterfield is heading to Denmark to complete three of the courses towards her bachelor degree.

The four-month trip from February to May has been made possible thanks to a $10,000 student exchange scholarship funded* as part of the European Union-Australia joint mobility projects.

CQUniversity and Mackay Health Service District have welcomed $375,000 in funding, enabling a joint academic role to become the first of its type in Australia in the field of medical imaging and sonography..

Local, national and international koala experts are gathering for a timely forum, as Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke enters his final weeks for a decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.

The Central Queensland Koala Workshop scheduled for February 1-3 is likely to discuss the federal listing process and the two current Nature Conservation Act nominations in south-east Queensland, along with its main focus is on the conservation of CQ koalas.

CQUniversity Mackay recently hosted board meetings for Mackay Tourism, giving Head of Campus Professor Pierre Viljoen the chance to update tourism sector leaders on campus expansion plans.

Tourism senior lecturer Steve Noakes was available to update the visitors on new Tourism degrees and to address his research into sector trends and statistics.

CQUniversity's revamped Rockhampton Campus library is now chock full of technology which encourages collaborative learning. There's even a ground-floor coffee shop for socialising, with the whispering zone consigned to the top floor.

Teachers could be playing catch-up in high-tech classrooms with Apple's recently announced foray into interactive textbooks helping to accelerate this trend.

That's according to CQUniversity's Dr Michael Cowling who is researching the ‘technology competency' of educators, following a recent study into the potential use of the Twitter social networking tool in the classroom.

Rural occupational therapy (OT) practice can be challenging with large diverse caseloads, the generalist nature of practice, vast distances to travel, a lack of referral agency and equipment resources, and limited access to professional support.

Apart from the potential for 'burn out', if rural practice is not considered an attractive option, there may be unfilled OT vacancies and ultimately a lack of adequate health service provision for rural communities.

CQUniversity senior lecturer Dr Ali Black hopes to help people recover their sense of purpose and creativity, through two workshops to be delivered at Gladstone Campus.

Recovering a Sense of Creativity will be presented on Tuesday, February 7, while Recovering a Sense of Purpose will be presented on Saturday February 11.

Introduction of $1 bets would be a positive way to combat problem gambling, but in some cases may only be the difference between ‘bleeding to death' slowly or quickly. The end result is the same.