Many ‘domestic' students in Australia and Denmark have culturally diverse heritage and/or experience, challenging the conventional distinction between local and foreign students.

That's according to a report on similarities and differences between Australian and Danish contexts, co-presented by CQUniversity International Education Research Centre Director, Assoc Prof Alison Owens and Assoc Prof Maribel Blasco of Copenhagen Business School.

Karen Reynolds has been hammering away building her career in the construction industry, but she has not forgotten to study along the way.

At the recent CQUniversity graduation in Rockhampton, she added a Bachelor of Construction Management with Honours to the Business degree she started eight years ago.

Members of South Australia's Country Fire Service volunteer brigades are contributing their valuable time and energy to a national research project aimed at keeping them safe on the fire-ground.

This project titled Awake, smoky and hot: Workplace stressors when fighting bushfires is funded by the Bushfire CRC (Co-operative Research Centre) and conducted by researchers at CQUniversity's Appleton Institute in Adelaide in conjunction with Deakin University and the CSIRO.

Graduation guest speaker Patrice Brown found a personal way of illustrating that the pathway of learning is not necessarily predictable, as she inspired graduates at CQUniversity's Rockhampton ceremony.

Now a successful business owner, Patrice grew up on a cattle property and initially struggled with her reading skills as a correspondent student until her mother brought home a pile of second-hand comics.

There's been a healthy boost to CQUniversity's infrastructure recently with projects worth around $50 million reaching fruition on several campuses.

CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman has pledged that the new facilities will complement the University's plans to become a dual sector institution through a merger with Central Queensland Institute of TAFE, making it the first dual sector institution in Queensland.

Companies should see the carbon tax as a way to sell their environmental compliance as a competitive advantage, not as an added cost.

That's according to recent CQUniversity Professional Doctorate graduate Dr Ivan Ong, who is based in Singapore and completed his thesis on the competitive advantages that a future low carbon economy can bring to a logistics company in Singapore.

Congratulations to CQUniversity Chemistry graduate Greg Dicinoski who has been listed among recipients of Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, awarded by Australia's Office for Learning and Teaching.

Greg's former lecturers at CQUniversity included Professor Graham Pegg and Assoc Professor Dave Druskovich, who are still on staff.

CQUniversity academics Sherie Elliott and Associate Professor Kerry Reid-Searl have each earned a national 'Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning', in the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching awards for 2012, announced this week by Higher Education Minister Senator Chris Evans..

The scholarship process can provide both motivational and financial support.

That's according to Learning Management student Sylvia Doyle, one of two recipients of the $1000 Rotary Club of Mackay North Inc Scholarship, who recently thanked club members in person.

Each year, hundreds of distance education students from throughout Australia converge on a range of CQUniversity's campuses throughout regional Queensland.

Not only do the residential schools they attend offer hands-on activities and face-to-face networking, many visitors also take the time to enjoy tourism highlights surrounding the campus.