A report by CHRIS DALY, one of the students who visited Korea.

Thirteen final-year CQU BLM (Bachelor of Learning Management) students, along with their 3 mentors, have returned to their respective campuses, after spending the summer teaching English to Korean students.

CQU Sydney International Campus rang in the Year of the Dog in fine style with Chinese New Year celebrations at the two Sydney campus buildings.

Both the undergraduate campus and the newly opened postgraduate campus were decorated in festive fashion with lanterns, firecrackers and red drapes to mark the occasion and invite good fortune for the year ahead.

The Postgraduate Students' Organisation (PSO) has awarded prizes and certificates to recognise the achievements of students and supervisors in 2005.

Awards announced at a special lunch at CQU Rockhampton on Friday (January 27) included:.

The sounds of Central Queensland have helped inspire Rockhampton musician and songwriter Leon Smith to record his first album.

Entitled 'Yellow Moon', the 17-track album was recorded in Melbourne after Mr Smith, 23, was awarded a $4000 Queensland Arts and RADF grant.

The Mareeba Heritage Museum hosted the country book launch of author Lennie Wallace's sixth book, 'From Nanango to Cooktown'.

The CQU Press publication is a Queensland memoir of the great depression and the war years of the 30s and 40s.

A handful of icons are still key to a fistful of tourist dollars, according to a recent cross-cultural study.

Tourism students from Australian and the United States went online last year to select tourism destination advertisements that best represented the 2 countries.

hitra Lestari (pictured right in both photos), a recent IDP Peace Scholarship visitor to CQU Rockhampton, has penned a heart-felt letter about her experiences in Australia.

The International Law student from the University of Indonesia (sponsored by Queensland Education and Training International) was known as an enthusias

Long-serving CQU Bundaberg advisory board member Phil Ainsworth has received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the Australia Day honours list.

The award also reflects Mr Ainsworth's achievements in forging his own aviation businesses (first Jabiru and now Microair) and his leadership of the Bundaberg Technology Park.

Rockhampton has been enjoying an unusually good wet season since Raquel Martinez Garcia arrived to study English at the CQU Language Centre.

Raquel first arrived in the region in October last year to visit her uncle and aunt in Yeppoon, but then decided to enrol at CQU in November.

Jazz clarinettist Evette Clague, a virtual student of CQU's Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, recently performed at the Egremont Torch Light Parade in Cumbria.

The 24-year-old Australian, who is blind, was visiting the region to trace her family's genealogy with her parents (Mr Clague's great-grandfather was born in Egremont in the 1800s and became an iron ore miner).