"A passion to make a difference" is where Professor Toni Downes says her commitment and drive come from. Professor Downes is Charles Sturt University’s new Dean of the Faculty of Education.

Employers may need to reconsider the mathematical skills they seek from young employees, says a senior Charles Sturt University academic after some groundbreaking research in the Australian workplace.

Australia’s rural communities are well behind their metropolitan cousins in screening for complications from diabetes. A Charles Sturt University research group is developing cost-effective methods for bringing specialist diagnostic tools to rural and remote health clinics to address problems with the rapidly growing disease, particularly among older Australians.

Australia and New Zealand are cruising comfortably down the information superhighway, but their Pacific Island neighbours are being left behind, according to Charles Sturt University research.

Free speech receives much attention in academic and public arenas as an important right in liberal democratic societies, especially on political issues. New research from Charles Sturt University suggests, however, that free speech in the Australian workplace may be more limited than we think.

The attractiveness of Australia’s eastern seaboard as a place to live isn’t confined to the majority of Australians. A leading CSU ecologist says the majority of native fauna species also call the east coast home, prompting him to call for major changes in future suburban and conservation planning to ensure more harmonious relations between man and native animals.