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Adult learning peak body visits, calls for 'reassessment'The president of Australia's peak adult learning body, Professor Barry Golding has visited Rockhampton for a forum calling for a reassessment of adult education in Australia. CQUniversity hosted the forum at its Ron Smyth Building in Quay Street. Full Details…2013-07-08 09:52:31.0 |
- High Commissioner will be special guest at Fiji graduation
Published on 15 August, 2007
Australian High Commissioner to Fiji, James Batley will be the official guest speaker at the CQU Fiji graduation ceremony next Tuesday, August 21.
Mr Batley, a career foreign service officer, joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1984.
- Digital imagery competition winners announced at the Fair
Published on 15 August, 2007
More than $8500 was awarded to Central Queensland primary schools at the Central Queensland University Multicultural Fair and Open Day for their winning entries in a digital imagery competition.
Winning schools in the Prep to Year 4 Awards were:
Woorabinda State School Year 2 (First prize of $2000)
St Anthony's Primary School Year 2F (group 3) (Second prize of $1500)
Park Avenue State School (Prep) (Encouragement prize of $750). - PELM researchers first in Australia to use new technology
Published on 15 August, 2007
Research staff at CQU Gladstone will be the first in Australia and South-East Asia to use the latest technology designed to test fatigue in metal.
Staff at CQU's Process Engineering and Light Metals (PELM) centre have recently commissioned a machine called the Electropuls E3000.
- Great news comes in twos for Laura
Published on 15 August, 2007
When Central Queensland University informed Laura McPherson she had won a $2300 HP student notebook computer after entering a competition at the CQU Multicultural Fair and Open Day, it was just the icing on the cake for a day of good news.
Laura had just been notified that she was now able to enrol in CQU's Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Professional Communication dual degree after thinking she was not eligible for an OP score to apply for university.
- CQU retains top ratings for graduate outcomes and salaries
Published on 15 August, 2007
Central Queensland University has maintained its top, 5-star national ratings for 'positive graduate outcomes' and 'graduate starting salary' in the 2008 edition of 'The Good Universities Guide', released this week.
CQU also retained top 5-star ratings for:'cultural diversity',
'international enrolments',
'proportion given credit for TAFE studies', and
'non-government earnings'.
- CQU graduate a leader in American intensive care nursing
Published on 15 August, 2007
CQU graduate Raina O'Connor is hoping to become the first ICU Nursing director to lead 2 teams to win the Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).
Her Idaho ICU gained the award in 2006 and her current Florida ICU is hoping to receive the 2008 award.
- New students welcomed to Sydney Graduate Campus
Published on 14 August, 2007
CQU Sydney Graduate Campus officially welcomed new students for Term 2 at an orientation day recently.
Orientation day is aimed at preparing students for their studies at CQU.
- Bauhinia Literary Awards include David Myers Memorial
Published on 14 August, 2007
Bauhinia Literary Awards announced on Sunday (August 12) included a special David Myers Memorial Award, won by Anne Marie Baartz of DumDum NSW, with her unique story 'The Ink Link'.
CQU commercial enterprises GM Paul Lancaster and Idiom 23 Literary Magazine editor Liz Huf announced the award winners during the Multicultural Fair and Open Day.