CQU, in conjunction with the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, will host visiting speaker Professor Cathy Humphreys, Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare, University of Melbourne, this Friday, December 7, from 11am to 12 noon at CQU Mackay.

(The presentation will also be video-linked to 18 sites across Queensland including, Cairns, Mareeba, Townsville, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Emerald, Mt Isa, Longreach, Nambour, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Roma and St George.

CQU Gold Coast students were welcomed to Term 3 with an Australian wildlife presentation.

Students had the opportunity to step outside their comfort zone and get up close and personal with a variety of native species.

Accounting firms will need to adhere to new ethical standards and policies if a CQU researcher's recommendations to Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA) Australia are upheld.

CPA Australia has awarded Dr Soheila Mirshekary a $6500 research grant to complete her project titled "Ethical Climates and the Ethical Decision Making of SMEs (Accounting Firms) in Australia" which aims to develop a set of ethics for young accountants and strengthen the ethical code for auditors.

The Council of Central Queensland University (CQU) unanimously resolved that CQU would take measures to acquire full ownership of its international business activities and wind-down its 13-year-old commercial joint venture, C_MS, the education management company it co-owns with Sydney-based Global Campus Management (GCM), it was announced today.

"This has been an incredibly successful partnership, but both organisations - CQU and GCM - have concluded that our individual strategic directions have diverged and it's time to move on," said CQU Vice Chancellor and President John Rickard.

The International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM) - of which CQU is a member - has won another major national business and education award for its innovative professional development programs.

ICE WaRM has been handed the Business/Higher Education Round Table's (B-HERT) 2007 Award for Outstanding International Collaboration in Education and Training for its ground-breaking professional development program with China's Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC).

Mr Parakala, who is now Global Chief Operating Officer, IRM, KPMG Risk Advisory Services Pty Limited, is based in Sydney.

Community acknowledges contributions of CQU benefactor Ron Diamond

The Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) bestowed a High Commendation upon Rockhampton's R.F (Ron) Diamond for his distinguished philanthropic support of Higher Education, acknowledging his financial contributions to, and advocacy of, science education and community development at Central Queensland University.