CQU Bundaberg's recent Celebration of Success for Tertiary Entry Program (TEP) students was made more meaningful through the participation of Chris Sarra, Queenslander of the Year and Principal of Cherbourg School.

Mr Sarra presented an inspiring Nullo Yumbah lecture encouraging Indigenous students to embrace the challenge of tertiary education.

CQU’s Nulloo Yumbah (Indigenous Learning, Spirituality and Research) Centre this week conducted testing and assessment sessions to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people find appropriate pathways into tertiary education.

For people without the formal qualifications to enter university, the Centre can recommend either they enrol in an undergraduate program or in a bridging program that prepares them for study.

A grant of $329 000 to CQU Bundaberg from the Sustainable Regions Funding Program will provide the impetus to expand the nationally and internationally-recognised innovative CAD/CAM technologies developed by Bundaberg State High School’s Technology Design Centre.

The Centre was created last year as a direct result of the vision of teacher Keith Holledge and a partnership between Education Queensland and Re-Engineering Australia Forum.

Queensland Alumina Limited has announced CQU Gladstone engineering student Tanya Marbach as its 2004 scholar.

QAL Managing Director Johann van Zyl said the QAL $5000 per annum scholarship program was an important part of the company's commitment to local education, the development of youth and the future of Gladstone.

A star-studded line-up from Sydney's arts, science, politics and law circles greeted the promotional author signing of the CQU Press books 'Best Stories Under the Sun' (a national anthology) and 'The Bohemian Bourgeois', by David Myers.

The well-wishers included: Padraic McGuiness, publisher of 'Quadrant'; David Brooks, editor of 'Southerly'; Julianne Schultz from 'Griffith Review'; Lawrence Gibbons from Sydney CIty Hub; Robin Williams from ABC Science; The Australia Council Emeritus Fellow Don'o Kim; Dr John Dale, novelist and Head of UTS creative writing; 'Canberra Times' journalist Mark Uhlmann; NSW Writers Centre director Irina Dunn (editor of 'Newswrite'); jazz musician DIck Hughes; former journalist and ex-Senator Michael Baume and many others.

CQU staff member David Myers has launched a novel, 'The Bohemian Bourgeois: The Confessions of Benjamin B'.

According to Myers, who moonlights as Director of CQU Press, the image on the front cover of this book of "racy memoirs" is by Sydney architectural painter Simon Fieldhouse.

A shortage of qualified valuers in Queensland has led to a new property degree being developed.

The State Valuation Service within the Department of Natural Resources and Mines (NR&M), along with the Australian Property Institute has negotiated the development of a Bachelor of Property following difficulty attracting skilled valuers to the public sector.

Central Queensland University will conduct the 11th graduation ceremony for its Fiji International Campus on Monday, November 29.

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CQU staff, students and graduates are eligible to participate in the inaugural Australian University Masters Championships, due to be held in Armidale next Easter (March 25-28).

Organisers UNE and Australian University Sport will host the event featuring soccer, netball, hockey, touch and rugby union.

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