Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM) together with Mackay Christian College will present a Jazz Spectacular this Friday, October 22.

Jazz students from the Bachelor of Jazz Studies program at CQCM have been presenting in heats this week, from which four finalists have been selected.

Diving Off the Ironing Board: A Political Memoir.

By Di McCauley.

CQU’s Literary and Arts journal 'Idiom 23' for 2004 was launched recently (October 8) by the Head of the School of Contemporary Communication in the Faculty of Informatics and Communication, Robert O’Sullivan.

The journal is on sale at CQU Press in Rockhampton (ground floor of the Commonwealth Building 351 on the corner of East and Fitzroy streets), at the CQU Rockhampton Bookshop and also via Leonie Healey in the former District Court (building 354) in the CBD at a cost of $11 (including GST).

Faculty staff on Rockhampton campus welcomed the opportunity to meet and greet our new Vice Chancellor Professor John Rickard at a casual afternoon tea recently at Rockhampton Campus.

A CQU nursing student based in Idaho, USA, has convinced her hospital medical committee to adopt patient safety recommendations from her CQU nursing assigment.

The student has emailed CQU nursing academics Wendy Madsen and Sonja Cleary to thanks them for their guidance.

A Central Queensland University postgraduate has suggested maternity care in Australia needs an overhaul to meet the needs of today's midwives and expecting parents.

Midwife and CQU Masters degree graduate Kathy Lerato believes a holistic approach to midwifery would benefit both midwives and expecting parents.

CQU Bundaberg first-year nursing student James Ukena has won a $100 merit award for his essay submitted to the Queensland Cancer Fund's Alf Kretschmar Award.

Invited to submit an essay about 'Caring for the Cancer Patient - A Positive Experience', James wrote about the inspirations for his nursing career and his interest in helping cancer patients.

For over three years the COIN Academy, a joint initiative between CQU and Rockhampton City Council, has been providing free basic computer and Internet training to more than 1100 members of local not-for-profit community groups.

The centre also provides free computer and Internet access to its members to practice their newly found skills, as well as the opportunity to host their own website on Capricornia Online http://www.

Almost 300 people gathered in Rockhampton and more than 100 others joined via videoconference from Bundaberg, Gladstone and Mackay when Germaine Greer visited CQU last week.

The distinguished academic, authority on Shakespeare and author of books including ‘The Female Eunuch’ addressed a Women in Research (WIR) luncheon seminar.

The Bundaberg Media Research Group's South Sea Islander project 'Island Footprints' has been broadcast on ABC Radio National.

Radio National's Hindsight program will be repeated this Thursday, October 21, from 1pm.