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Home > Latest News > Business & Commerce Growing globalization and inequality – what can we do? 18 Sep 2006
The recent meetings of the world’s leading economic countries have attracted world leaders and their critics. A book edited by a Charles Sturt University academic and his British colleague attempts to address the motivations for protests against globalization – the growing gap between rich and poor countries as the world’s economy and trade becomes more integrated across national boundaries. CSU is part of the Orange community 05 Sep 2006
Charles Sturt University’s academic excellence and work within the Orange community will be celebrated and highlighted this week with a series of events culminating at a special Community Day to be held at the University’s new Orange Campus on Saturday 9 September. 01 Sep 2006
A hundred years ago, Sydneysiders were concerned about a lack of water, congestion in the CBD, the problems caused by public-private development and a severe skills shortage. Sound familiar? According to Dr Clive Beauchamp, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Social Sciences and Liberal Studies School, "in some ways, public expectations never seem to change". Childcare – whose responsibility? 08 Aug 2006
Australia’s most influential players in childcare will debate Childcare - whose responsibility? in Sydney on Wednesday 9 August. The event will explore ways of improving access to quality childcare, and features a panel of some of Australia's leading childcare providers, experts and commentators, including Fran Press, Charles Sturt University (CSU) senior childhood education lecturer. 04 Aug 2006
The future of Charles Sturt University was further secured recently when the CSU Council re-appointed Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter, Chancellor Lawrie Willett AO and Deputy Chancellor Ian Macintosh AM. It is this team that recently unveiled CSU’s new five-year corporate strategy that Professor Goulter says will "focus on what we do well; deliver distinctive and quality educational programs for the professions, concentrate on our research on agricultural and regional sustainability, and lead the nation in distance education". 02 Aug 2006
"My advice was to give two votes per farm, initiate time-limited leadership positions, and introduce gender awareness training for industry bodies. The most radical recommendation I gave was bodies that do not represent gender equity should not be given government funding. Now that is the one that will really shake them up." Professor Margaret Alston, Director of Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Centre for Rural Social Research is talking about her recommendations to the Federal Government’s Inquiry into Women’s Representation on Rural and Regional Bodies of Influence. Business in a spin over electoral changes 26 Jul 2006
Research from Charles Sturt University has shown that businesses in regional NSW are concerned with the proposed changes to electoral boundaries resulting in the loss of one seat in the Federal Parliament for NSW. Coal versus nuclear: the debate we have to have 03 Jul 2006
Should Australia have a nuclear industry? According to the Prime Minister John Howard, this is a debate we have to have. Dr Roderick Duncan is a lecturer in economics at Charles Sturt University (CSU). He says nuclear power is probably not economically feasible in a country like Australia. Mitchell Link to benefit CSU in learning, teaching and research 09 Jun 2006
Sir Thomas Mitchell would surely approve of the Mitchell Link, a new high speed fibre optic link which will greatly benefit the Bathurst and Orange campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU). For the first time, the regionally-based University campuses will connect into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN), which was established in 2002 to provide large bandwidth capabilities to the country’s universities. Media alert: Minister launches Mitchell Link 07 Jun 2006
Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will formally announce the allocation of $4.5 million to the construction of a high speed fibre optic network that will connect Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bathurst and Orange campuses into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN). |
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