A new Assessment Tracking system is being piloted during Term 1, 2006, with external (FLEX) courses.

This will enable all distance education students to track their items of assessment through the marking process.

Performing arts specialists will be in great demand in the school system, according to the program leader of CQU's new Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching (GDLT).

Rickie Fisher is confident about the job prospects for Bachelor of Performing Arts degree graduates who are among the first students enrolled in the GDLT.

Contributed by TAMMY PARSONS from CQUSA.

CQU Rockhampton’s newest students may be finding university a little less daunting now that Orientation Week is all over.

Corruption and the media were on CQU senior lecturer Helen Ester’s agenda when she presented at a New South Wales Parliamentary conference last month.

The Bundaberg-based lecturer presented a paper titled Corruption and the Media – Political Journalists, ‘leaks’ and Freedom of Information at the National Conference of Parliamentary Oversight Committees of Anti-Corruption/Crime Bodies at Parliament House, Sydney.

CQU is welcoming 115 international students from 24 different countries this month as they begin term 1 at the University’s regional campuses.

Half of the students are from India and USA, but there are also small numbers from countries such as Bangladesh, Republic of Moldova, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana.

A group of 11 and 12-year-old gifted and talented students from Rockhampton Grammar School visited CQU Rockhampton this week.

Co-ordinated by Colleen Cooling from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Education and Julie Fleming from the Division of Teaching & Learning, the students saw first hand how video and print media are produced.

In a reversal of the Wizard of Oz tale, Carmen Maguire has left her home town of Emerald to follow her 'yellow brick road' to success.

She will graduate with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (BPA) degree in Rockhampton on March 11, but already has gained a diverse range of industry experience.

When Rebecca Grant walks across the stage of the CQU Rockhampton graduation this Saturday (March 11), she will represent an academic dynasty linked to CQU since 1967.

The dynasty includes 4 CQU graduates and 3 current CQU students.

The theme for International Women’s Day this Wednesday March 8 was ‘Women striving for a peaceful society’.

To mark the occasion Central Queensland University (CQU) Mackay hosted a free lunchtime barbecue outside the Library, with guest speaker Heather Nancarrow, Director of the QLD Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research (CDFVR).

Wheel wear on 3-piece bogies in Australia costs the rail industry millions of dollars per annum, with wear increases due to poor bogie rotation estimated to be upwards of 17% of current wheel wear statistics.

Rail CRC research being undertaken as a collaborative project between Central Queensland University and University of Wollongong has made significant progress towards results which could see industry implement wide-spread changes to bogie rotation management, and the use of centre bowl liners to help reduce friction and wear.