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Adult learning peak body visits, calls for 'reassessment'The president of Australia's peak adult learning body, Professor Barry Golding has visited Rockhampton for a forum calling for a reassessment of adult education in Australia. CQUniversity hosted the forum at its Ron Smyth Building in Quay Street. Full Details…2013-07-08 09:52:31.0 |
- Irene challenges students to consider big issues
Published on 15 July, 2008
CQUniversity Sydney academic Dr Irene Hoetzer is the sort of teacher all students should be willing to learn from.
She is an outspoken woman who brings a wealth of ideas, issues and teaching experience to her students studying law and popular film and culture.
- Hunt leaves with mixed feelings
Published on 14 July, 2008
After more than a decade at CQUniversity supporting Indigenous students, Laurel Hunt is retiring with mixed feelings.
Speaking at her farewell morning tea this week, she thanked her colleagues at Nulloo Yumbah, the University's Indigenous, Learning, Spirituality & Research Centre.
- Uni-sponsored Winter Music School has Cathedral climax
Published on 14 July, 2008
The CQUniversity-sponsored SunWater and Stanwell Winter Music School returned to Rockhampton in July 2008, encouraging Queensland's budding young ‘musicians of the future'.
The event climaxed with a gala concert in St Paul's Cathedral last Friday evening (July 11).
- Shorebird research shows way forward
Published on 14 July, 2008
Research recently undertaken by CQUniversity's Centre for Environmental Management, testing different management techniques to protect internationally significant shorebirds in our region, has been finalised.
The research was funded by the Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management Inc.
- Nurses compete in bed pan derby
Published on 14 July, 2008
Teams of student nurses, nursing lecturers and visiting nurses from South Korea recently competed in the inaugural Bed Pan Derby at CQUniversity Rockhampton (July 11).
In this game of strategy and stupidity, the nurses passed the baton, or in this case a bed pan, to each team member while undertaking various ‘roles'.
- Japanese delegation visits campus
Published on 10 July, 2008
The Mayor and other delegates from Rockhampton's Sister City of Ibusuki toured CQUniversity Rockhampton this week as part of their visit to re-sign the relationship between the 2 councils.
The Ibusuki group included Mayor Kaname Taharasako, the chairperson of Ibusuki City Assembly Susumu Shinguryou, and the personal affairs secretariat section representative Kaori Hanaki.
- Sydney's Peter Adams not too taxed to ensure industry relevance
Published on 10 July, 2008
CQUniversity Sydney academic Peter Adams knows that Taxation Law is one of the disciplines most prone to change.
So he has become renowed for his enthusiastic involvement in the industry and for nurturing and supporting his students and colleagues.
- DVC's delving paves way for academic interchange
Published on 09 July, 2008
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Angela Delves has been paving the way for academic interchange with universities on the Subcontinent.
Her recent visit to a range of institutions across Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka identified areas of need and ways that CQUniversity's expertise may be able to contribute to academic development.
- Author says anti-whaling 'hits wall' within Japan
Published on 09 July, 2008
Foreign pressure against whaling finds no significant allies within Japanese domestic politics to align with, because the Fisheries Agency has been effective at redefining the issue as being about national pride and food security.
That's according to CQUniversity researcher Dr Michael Danaher whose new book Environmental Politics in Japan: The case of wildlife preservation has just been published by German company VDM Verlag.