Central Queensland University and the Central Queensland Area Consultative Committee will sign an agreement Friday 14 March to work together on advancing the development of Central Queensland.

The Memo of Understanding – signed by CQU Vice Chancellor and President Glenice Hancock and CQACC Chairman Kym Mobbs – calls for both organisations to cooperate on economic, social, and cultural development of the region.

CQU Vice-Chancellor Glenice Hancock joined 30 other CQU Mackay staff at a luncheon celebrating International Womens’ Day on March 7.

The luncheon’s host and CQU Education lecturer Cecily Knight highlighted the importance of promoting non-violence at global, societal and personal levels.

The side effects of a stressful work environment were immediately reversed after a local service co-ordinator attended a Managers and Supervisors Workshop presented by Skillpath Seminars at Central Queensland University. The one-day workshop offered effective supervision skills and suggestions for dealing with workplace issues in a way that made learning easy and entertaining.

CQU’s commitment to professional development began in earnest with the launch of their teaching and learning week recently.

While this week was primarily designed to assist new academic staff, over 200 staff took advantage of the planned activities which included: principles and practices of teaching and learning (two-day workshop); administrative introduction to CQU (half day forum); Craig McInnis assessment symposium (one-day symposium); introduction to WebCT (half hour seminar); technology and media options (one-hour seminar); video-conferencing @ CQU (one-hour interactive session); and e-moderation and e-activities (1.

Central Queensland University will play a key role in Beef Australia 2003 from 26 April to 4 May.

CQU’s Coordinator for Beef Australia 2003, Tony Gubbins said the University will coordinate the opening ceremony and will feature at the trade show.

The Australian College of Journalism (ACJ) and Central Queensland University (CQU) have joined forces to open a pathway to the most comprehensive online journalism courses offered nationally.

With the advent of this alliance, which extends their academic options, ACJ graduates are also now eligible for admission into CQU's Bachelor, Advanced Diploma and Diploma of eJournalism which are all offered online.

The weekly series of classic documentary screenings from the National Library Collection returns today (Thursday).

Two seminal films from the British documentary tradition will screen tonight: John Grierson's "Drifters" and "Housing Problems".

First year engineering students were inducted into university life with a week of team based activities and workshops from March 3 to 7.

The activities included, as well as regular classes, team building exercises, rock climbing and a design and build competition where the students worked in teams to solve an engineering problem.

The financial burden of commencing a university degree has eased somewhat for Marion Ducci of Prestons in New South Wales.

Marion was awarded with $500 to go towards university textbooks after completing a survey included with CQU's offer of admission to a business program.

Gender issues in the classroom will be the focus of this year’s International Women’s Day lunch at Central Queensland University this Friday (7 March).

Visiting Professor from the United States, Professor Janice Koch will give an insight into gender issues that are affecting the American and Australian classroom.