Primary and secondary students from Mackay competed and beat Rockhampton teams at the Central Queensland Junior Robotics Competition at CQU Rockhampton on the weekend.

More than 15 teams competed in four different categories: Soccer, Dance (Open), Dance (Primary) and Rescue.

CQU's Smart Returns Fellowships Scheme visiting scholar Professor Douglas Rutledge this week gave a presentation to a St George school on life after high school, university, the value of a science education and chemistry in application.

The visitor was in St George this week for a table grape conference.

The Faculty of Business & Law has an exciting competition open to anyone who visits the stand in front of building 34 on Sunday, during the CQ Multicultural Fair and CQU Rockhampton Open Day.

This competition is dubbed the Key Game and the top prizes are one digital camera and two pre-paid mobile phones.

CQU Rockhampton business/IT graduate Kumar Parakala has gained a position as Chief Operating Officer for KPMG's International Practice in Information Risk Management.

The Sydney-based executive is happy to praise CQU for its committed staff, "who are keen on providing an exceptional student experience for every student".

CQU Mackay this week hosted five Korean students and their teacher on a tour of the campus.

The five students, who range in age from 13 to 17, have spent the past two weeks in Mackay with their host schools Whitsunday Anglican School and Mackay Christian College.

The memorable chorus from Barry Manilow’s Grammy Award-winning hit song, 'Copacabana', can soon be heard in full as the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music presents 'Barry Manilow’s Copacabana – A New Musical Comedy' at CQU Mackay.

This passionate tale, set amidst the swinging nightclub scene of the 1940s, will thrill audiences with its glamorous costumes and magical choreography, not to mention the superb performances from CQCM students.

CQU Press will launch five books at this year’s CQ Multicultural Fair and CQU Rockhampton Open Day, at 11.30am on the main stage.

CQU Rockhampton has hosted one of Sweden’s leading exponents of the use of drama in education and management.

Dr Margaret Lepp, a senior lecturer and international student coordinator from Boras University, provided a half-day workshop on ‘Drama as a Teaching Methodology’ while at CQU Rockhampton on August 3-4.

CQU was a co-sponsor of this week's Queensland visit by Dr Christine Harrison, Director of the Assessment Group at King’s College London, who uses assessment to help teachers enhance learning.

Dr Harrison has consulted on assessment for learning projects in California, Scotland and England and is a popular speaker at national and international conferences.

The beef capital of Rockhampton could well be the railway capital of Australia in 2005, with significant national railway visits and meetings in the region in August highlighting the railway sector’s increasing importance in the booming coal state.

This Friday and Saturday, August 5-6, just under 80 national and international delegates will converge on the Country Comfort Hotel for the Australasian Technical conference of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) , which is focused on ‘Educating the Industry’.