Indian postgraduate student Nachiket Joshi says CQU Sydney International Campus has a "homely" feeling due to the cooperative relationships between students and educators and its popularity with Indian students.

"As well as mingling with Indian students, CQU is an international campus so I can meet people from different cultures as well," he says.

CQU Executive Dean Professor Elizabeth Taylor AO is on the annual list of 'Australia's 100 Most Influential Engineers' for the third consecutive year.

The list is published by Engineers Australia's magazine to recognise significant achievements.

Universities struggling to make on-campus services in rural communities viable, such as CQU, could be shielded from considerable market pressures due to falling domestic student demand if the government designated them “national priority campuses” according to a prominent education policy analyst.

“Institutions can’t jack up [domestic] fees or they’ll discourage more students,” said Griffith University’s Gavin Moodie at a CQU Learning & Teaching seminar in Rockhampton on Tuesday June 5.

The rest of Australian public universities will need to catch up with Central Queensland University in three key areas, according to Gavin Moodie, the higher education policy analyst at Griffith University and regular contributor to The Australian’s Higher Education section.

“People [at other universities] are imitating you while telling you what you’re doing isn’t proper or traditional – it just seems to me an extraordinary position,” said Moodie during a presentation made to CQU about the changing higher education environment.

Staff and students at Esk State School, Bremer State High School, Toogoolawah State High School and Toogoolawah State School in the West Moreton district, have been working with CQU lecturer John Hunt, to access resources that some schools only dream of.

Mr Hunt has been on leave from CQU, working with these schools from the Smart Classrooms: Computers for Teachers trial.

As the new Academic and Research building at CQU Bundaberg is nearing completion, a “milestone” celebration has been held (June 7) to acknowledge the substantial contribution from the Federal Government towards the project.

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Central Queensland University has been named as a partner in a new Smart Water Research Facility, announced this week by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie.

The Premier said Queensland will soon be tapping into innovative water supply solutions with the help of $10 million in Smart State funding.

The recent under 8’s week in Mackay was a huge success with little ones having a chance to learn with joy, fun and happiness.

The Early Childhood students from CQU Mackay organised a smorgasbord of activities at the Gordan White Library, particularly for children aged 3 – 8.

Celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of Central Queensland University’s STEPS program will be held from 7.30pm on October 7, 2006, in the Student Refectory, CQU Bundaberg Campus.

World leader in the research, development and evaluation of online learning materials and services, Professor Diana Laurillard visited CQU this week to present a seminar and colloquium on the requirements and strategies of online learning.

Professor Laurillard is currently the Chair of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, part of the Institute of Education, University of London.