About 40 education students have celebrated completing all their degree assessment requirements, in the company of friends, family, mentor teachers and academics on Bundaberg Campus.

Guest speakers for the event included Head of Campus Professor Phillip Clift, Education Queensland rep John Faragher and local deputy principal Michael Kiss, who spoke on behalf of schools which have hosted students during practical sessions in the classroom.

Naomi Barton is only one of 33 Bachelor of Learning Management (BLM) students* completing their degrees in Rockhampton region and looking forward to primary, secondary and early childhood teaching positions next year.

What sets her apart from her colleagues at an end-of-term function this week, is that she's the first female BLM student to graduate as a manual arts teacher.

Graduate attributes are workplace-ready skills and attitudes and include the ability to effectively work in a team, to solve problems, to think critically and to behave ethically.

Currently, academic staff are mapping their courses to establish the current status of graduate attribute development.

CQUniversity graduate and sports reporter Paul Cochrane is becoming a familiar face on our TV screens this month as he reports from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

It's not the first trip to the sub-continent for the former Gladstone local, who has had a strong association with the University, both during and since his time as a student.

In a timely move as it expands health promotion programs, CQUniversity has strengthened ties with some of Sweden's leading specialists in this field.

Sweden has a long history of health promotion activities and education, so Bundaberg-based academic Dr Wendy Madsen made the most of the chance to meet staff and students from University West in Trollhattan, as part of an ongoing relationship between the institutions.

CQUniversity's Going Home event for international students is always a colourful affair and it was no exception when Indonesian Ministry of Finance official Nugi meet up with Germany's Jorunn Lorenzen, who became a jillaroo when arriving in Australia.

Nugi (full name Nugroho Juli Purnana) has been studying a Master of Management, specialising in HRM, and is looking forward to applying his academic knowledge to his job with the Indonesian government in Jakarta.

Three teams of first-year Engineering students did us proud in Gladstone recently, winning praise from industry reps and academics for finding solutions to real problems and for explaining them with confidence..

Congratulations to Rockhampton-based organisation Community Solutions on receiving our CQUniversity Community Contribution of the Year Award for 2010..

When the knights of the round table go clip-clopping onto Rockhampton's Pilbeam Theatre stage at the end of October to present Monty Python's Spamalot, it will be with the help of several links to CQUniversity..

Second-year Engineering students have gathered in Rockhampton for independent testing of projects they have designed and built.

Civil and mechanical students did simulation modelling on their bridge designs before constructing them for 'deflection' testing under laboratory conditions.