CQU's Information Technology Division (ITD) has introduced a new, user-friendly website for the convenience of University staff and students.

Client Service Centre Manager Donna-Lee Bradford said the new website, http://www.

Central Queensland University's drive to provide students with state-of-the-art, online learning opportunities has won the University an international best practice award.

CQU took out the veteran-user category for its ongoing Multimedia Streaming Project at the recent TeleConnections/TeleSpan Conference Best Practice Awards.

Frustration and alienation that some indigenous people feel towards the government is mounting according to Queensland's top spokesperson on discrimination matters, who spoke at Central Queensland University Rockhampton (CQU) Friday.

Anti-discrimination commissioner for Queensland Susan Booth focused on education, health and community issues in Central Queensland communities during a lecture she delivered at CQU -- marking International Human Rights Day -- entitled "Indigenous rights are human rights".

Gladstone tennis students formed a guard of honour on Wednesday, as friends and family farewelled Gladstone’s much-loved tennis coach and CQU student Fred Munckton.

Fred died at the age of 66 this month after a long battle with cancer.

CQU's Associate Professor Gayle Jennings was an invited guest at the 25th gala anniversary dinner of Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management.

More than 700 people attended the dinner, which was held at the Convention Hall of the Hong Kong Conference and Convention Centre.

Central Queensland University has benchmarked the quality of graduates from its four-year Bachelor of Psychology degree.

Postgraduate Program coordinator Robert ForsterLee said CQU had submitted final-year thesis projects to academics from three highly-ranked Australian Psychology schools at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland.

A Central Queensland University study has revealed that women make more informed decisions when deliberating on a jury.

The study performed by Bachelor of Psychology student, Sandra Dawes, and doctoral student, Leeana Kent, under the supervision of Dr Lynne ForsterLee, Head of the School of Psychology and Sociology, examined the effects of juror gender, note-taking, eyewitness confidence, and need for cognition on verdict decisions and recall.

Thirty science teachers from Rockhampton and district schools converged on CQU for an in-service training day on forensic science.

CQU forensic sciences lecturer Associate Professor Graham Pegg said that the new push for teaching forensic science in schools was a good idea since it allowed science to be taught within an interesting and relevant context.

While teenage school leavers tend to attract the most media attention, mature-age students (aged 25 and over) are in the majority among Central Queensland University's Australian students.

In fact, CQU’s domestic students tend to be female, aged over 25, and studying externally or by mixed mode (8,056 are not internal versus 4,114 who are).

A ‘learning celebration’ function has been held to recognise Endeavour Foundation clients who have successfully completed an integrated literacy and numeracy course.

The course was taught by Endeavour Foundation staff working as adult literacy and numeracy tutors.