With the Chinese bulk carrier Shen Neng  run aground off the coast of Central Queensland a just-completed 2-year survey conducted by CQUniversity Australia of more than 4000 Queensland households shows residents would be willing to spend $150 million of their own money, annually, to protect/improve conditions on the Great Barrier Reef.

"Clearly, protection of the Reef is a high priority among Queenslanders, " says CQUniversity Professor John Rolfe, Director of the University's Centre for Environmental Management.

Grace Jones dreams of learning how to take professional photos and of meeting people from a range of backgrounds and life experiences.

The Grade 11 Rockhampton Grammar School student is currently doing work experience with CQUniversity photographer/filmmaker Peter Lawrence.

CQUniversity Rockhampton celebrates "CQUniversity International Week" April 18 to 24, raising awareness of internationalisation and our international activities among students, academic and professional staff.

Highlighting our Australian International Campuses and projects in Central Queensland, there will be lunch time interactive seminars on international markets, the University's recruitment program and the development of sustainable international partnerships.

Wayne Ah-Wong's research reveals how three different ethnic groups retained their cultures, and changed, as they encountered Australia's white colonial system, writes Amanda Woodard in CQUniversity's research magazine, LINK..

CQUniversity staff members seen at the 2010 Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival on 28 March included Peter Reaburn, Trudy Dwyer, Cally Davies, Christina Caperchione, Kylie James and Lindsay Greer.

"Lindsay and I formed a team," said Kylie James.

The Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music at CQUniversity Mackay is producing a fun musical designed to teach kids that you are what you eat.

Performed and written by CQCM students and lecturer Kim Kirkman, Mighty Foods: The Musical combines 45 minutes of singing, acting and dancing.

Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health, Professor Brenda Happell acknowledged "more evidence of the national and international reputation of [CQUniveristy's] Dr Kerry Reid-Searl" when it was announced this week that our senior lecturer had been awarded the inaugural Nurse Educator of the Year by The Australian Nurse Teachers' Society (ANTS) for her brilliant and innovative teaching, curriculum development and research.

"Kerry we are so proud of you!  Such an asset to CQUniversity," exclaimed Professor Happell.

CQUniversity international students will receive an invitation this month to participate in the largest annual study of international students in the world, the International Student Barometer (ISB).

Tracking the perceptions and motivations of students across 5 continents, the ISB runs in 16 countries and provides over 500 higher education institutions with valuable insights and benchmarking comparisons.

More than 200 people have sent in their comments to the University on the redesign of its cqu.edu.

Teachers  trained for 6 weeks before entering the classroom are likely to be better suited for  fits of teaching as opposed to being be fit for teaching, according to a leading education academic who is critical of findings made in a report commissioned by the Queenslander College of Teachers .

Associate Professor Ken Purnell of CQUniversity Australia says 6 weeks pre-service training for so-called "associates", highly-skilled professionals or graduates who switch to teaching from their main area of knowledge, is flawed in terms of the mentoring associates would get, the cost of the program and negative messages being sent to the community about teaching.