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$1m in new scholarships for CSU dental students


Students studying dentistry at CSU will be the beneficiaries of a significant new scholarship scheme announced today by the Foundation Head of the CSU School of Dentistry and Health Sciences, Professor Ward Massey.

Record applications for 'most trusted profession'


CSU has received a record number of applications for distance education study in its paramedic course which leads to a career as a paramedic. Annual surveys have regularly rated paramedics as 'the most trusted profession'.

$2.5m for rural clinical practice scholarships


Charles Sturt University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Chambers, has welcomed the announcement by Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, MP, of $2.5 million in new scholarships to enable allied health students to undertake clinical placements in rural or remote communities during their degrees.

Minister asked to help regional students address health crisis


Charles Sturt University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Chambers, welcomed the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, MP, to the Wagga Wagga Campus yesterday, Wednesday 21 January.

Bid for new Regional Clinical Simulation Centre for Bathurst


CSU today announced that it has asked the Federal Government for more than $2 million in funding to establish a major Regional Inter-Professional Clinical Simulation Centre for CSU at Bathurst. The application was made under the Capital Development Pool Program administered by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Struggle continues after rehabilitation


Many people in regional Australia struggled to cope and to do the things they want to do following their brain injury, according to a major research study from CSU and the South West Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, part of the NSW Greater Southern Area Health Service.

CSU purchases state-of-the-art dentistry equipment


A landmark partnership between CSU and Australian distributor, Henry Schein Halas, will ensure that students of the University's new dentistry and oral health courses will gain their dental training experience in a fully digital clinical and preclinical environment that offers the most advanced dental equipment of any education facility in Australia.

Shining a light on giving birth in rural and remote Australia


"Luckily we had a torch" is a comment made by a new mother and embraced by researchers from CSU to demonstrate the extraordinary circumstances in which some women living in rural and remote areas of Australia are forced to give birth.

Funding boost to CSU Dubbo dental services


Charles Sturt University's plans for a new dental clinic at Dubbo received a boost yesterday with the announcement by Mr John Della Bosca, MP, NSW Minister for Health, of a $4.1 million funding package for the project.

On the frontline of mental health care in NSW


Mental health nurses in rural and remote NSW have expressed concern to CSU researchers that they fear their profession is dying.

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