Local media reports indicate 25,000 people attended the 10th annual Central Queensland Multicultural Fair, hosted Sunday in Rockhampton by CQU & ABC Capricornia with support from The Morning Bulletin.

Thousands were on hand for ceremonies surrounding the signing of a reconciliation statement by representatives from Central Queensland University (CQU) and the Darumbal people following the opening of the Fair.

The University’s new statistics web site, designed and maintained by the Analysis and Planning Unit, is now 'live' at http://cqu-stats.cqu.

CQU & Prime Minister Howard Laurel Hunt, Nulloo Yumbah’s Tertiary Entry program coordinator lecturer, and six mature-aged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students plan to be in Canberra Monday to meet with Prime Minister John Howard. The political science students, who are scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Howard for a half hour, are expected to present him with a framed copy of the CQU Reconciliation Statement, which was signed and displayed at the CQ Multicultural Fair.

Leading Australian director and music theatre legend Nancye Hayes is taking time out from her Wizard of Oz project to spend August in the canefields.

Nancye is directing a student production of Kiss Me Kate, at Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, which is adjacent to a sugar cane farm in Mackay.

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Continuing last year's theme of supporting the education of seniors in the area of information technology, CQU’s Faculty of Business & Law will have a number of exciting activities during the Central Queensland Multicultural Fair and CQU Open Day this Sunday.

Faculty Marketing Manager, Darryl Parker said the focus of the Faculty's Internet and Internet Banking Sessions are to entertain and educate senior citizens in the use of the Internet and particularly Internet banking.

CQU\'s Faculty of Business & Law will be holding a Risky Business challenge at the CQ Multicultural Fair & University Open Day this Sunday at CQU’s Rockhampton campus.

Many great prizes are up for grabs, including a computer desk, printer and dinner for two gift voucher to name a few.

Melbourne International Campus student John Polidoros recently took part in the try-outs for the Manchester City soccer team.

He was one of the forty-nine players from Australia fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to take part in this program.

Australia needs a giant leap to keep up with educational trends and should bypass the incremental steps along the way.

For example, debates about a leaving age of 15 or 16 for compulsory schooling were irrelevant when some European countries had been at 16 for 3 decades and were planning to switch to 18 or 19.

Some Queensland universities would continue to struggle to find placements for their trainee teachers unless they treated schools as true partners in the process.

That is according to Central Queensland University's Dean of Education and Creative Arts, Professor Jim Mienczakowski, who said some universities were looking interstate or even overseas for placements as options dried up.