About 65 children from the region have been participating in the annual Active Kids Sporting and Recreation Camp at CQU Rockhampton this week.

Active Kids Rockhampton has been developed by CQU’s School of Health & Human Performance to give boys and girls aged 9 – 13 plenty to do after the Christmas excitement has died down.

The Central Queensland Alliance Frangaise will be offering French lessons again in terms 1 and 2 in 2007.

Term 1 starts on Wednesday January 31 at the CQU Language Centre (opposite the bus stop area) at 6.

CQU’s Competence Assessment Service has teamed up with the Uniting Church’s Blue Care organisation to attract former Bundaberg nurses back to the profession.

As part of the program the 6-week clinical placement component of the course is conducted at a Blue Care facility within the Wide Bay district.

CQU's Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health Professor Elizabeth Taylor has become the first woman president of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans (ACED).

Professor Taylor was elected to the position earlier this month by the council\'s members and replaces Professor Archie Johnston, Dean of Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney.

Research conducted by CQU's International Program for Psycho-Social Health Research (IPP-SHR) has found that administrative issues are blocking the Patient Transport Assistance Scheme (PTAS) from providing equitable access to cancer treatments for rural, remote and regional Queenslanders.

These findings match recent concerns expressed by West Australian Senator, Judith Adams, who has called for a national review of state-administered patient travel schemes.

Seventy-five students and 6 staff members at Sydney International Graduate Campus were treated to a sight-seeing cruise on the picturesque Sydney Harbour in Week 4 of Term 3, 2006.

Students and staff enjoyed an hour aboard the Magistic Cruise with informative commentary about the harbour and a complementary morning tea.

Researchers will compare the relative cost-effectiveness of 'conservation auctions' involving farmers and graziers, in order to find the best ways to improve the quality of water flowing into the Great Barrier Reef.

The research will trial conservation auctions involving landholders voluntarily bidding for financial incentives to improve their environmental practices, as opposed to older systems involving regulation and fines.

THE future is looking bright for Central Queensland University (CQU) Mackay students enrolling in one of the many programs on offer at the university – and it’s not too late to apply to study at CQU this year.

A strong demand for skilled professionals in the Mackay region has provided great opportunities for CQU Mackay students who are opting to combine work and study to enhance their learning and knowledge base in the job.

New Head of Campus for CQU Gladstone Dr Pierre Viljoen is looking forward to his role in enhancing existing relationships internally between sections of the Gladstone campus and the broader CQU community, as well externally with the local and regional communities and industries.

According to Dr Viljoen: “the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts”.

Donna Wright, lecturer at CQU Brisbane International Campus, is taking her PhD research outcomes on contemporary intercultural communication to the world this year.

Ms Wright specializes in intercultural communication, visual culture and visual arts practice.