Mirani State High School student Tony Doolan is already making great strides towards fulfilling his dream to be an engineer.

The Year 12 student received a CQUniversity Engineering Award for high achievement in school engineering studies.

CQUniversity is giving prospective students the opportunity to find out about study and career options via Online Drop-In Information Sessions scheduled in December.

The sessions will allow people from anywhere in Australia to access immediate information, advice and support regarding education and training at CQUniversity with staff waiting to answer questions.

We may be a technology-mad society but that does not mean students feel comfortable about social media in the classroom.

That's according to CQUniversity's Dr Michael Cowling who says his research shows that less than 20% of students agree that Twitter should be part of the classroom and only 7% indicated that they had used any form of social media in a higher education setting before.

Students can earn big bucks by gaining a degree and now they can earn prizes just by talking about their 'dream journey'..

A crash-tested Jeep has arrived at the new Forensic Exhibit Crash Lab on CQUniversity Bundaberg, to assist students enrolled in Accident Forensics and Accident Investigations.

This vehicle has been provided by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP)*.

CQUniversity and Rio Tinto Coal Australia's Hail Creek Mine will continue their partnership by signing a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a further three years.

The organisations have been working together since 2006, initially on an annual scholarship program that has since supported more than 40 local students (with a further 20 students expected to be part of this program over the next three years).

Indigenous students are being invited to apply for Arrow Energy Indigenous Scholarships offered in association with CQUniversity. These scholarships - valued at $10,000 - will provide a complete package that includes mentoring, tutoring and peer support networks.

Arrow Energy will establish six Indigenous scholarships at CQUniversity as part of a new statewide education partnership.

Arrow CEO Andrew Faulkner said the two-year, $120,000 scholarship program was aimed at encouraging Indigenous people into higher education in Central Queensland.

CQUniversity researcher and cultural anthropologist Dr Sophie Rainbird has helped produce a book which unravels new spaces and new networks at work in early childhood literacy and development.

According to Routledge, the publisher of Resourcing Early Learners: New Networks, New Actors, governments are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry.

A near ‘sell-out' audience packed a room at the Reef Hotel while attending Noosa's first 'Research Unplugged' presentation recently (Nov 21).

Margaret McAllister, Professor of Nursing at CQUniversity, partnered with Jill Fisher, National Coordinator of StandBy (a service for those bereaved by suicide based at United Synergies in Tewantin) to give a joint presentation on the topic of suicide prevention, intervention and postvention (working with those affected by a suicide such as families and friends).