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ANZAM honour for CSU academic
13 Feb 2007
Charles Sturt University (CSU) Professor of Human Resource Management and director of Research Development, Andrew Smith has joined eight elite scholars to be appointed as a Research Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM). ANZAM is the peak professional body for management educators, researchers and practitioners, representing about 500 individual and 50 institutional members, including most Australian and New Zealand universities. It aims to advance scholarship and practice in management education and research. ANZAM Research Fellows, who are appointed for three years, act as mentors to doctoral students and researchers, helping develop their career and research profiles. Professor Smith says his appointment “is a considerable honour”.
Media Note: For more information contact CSU Media
Print this story Welfare to Work meeting
12 Feb 2007
Australia’s chronic skills shortage and the Federal Government’s push to get people off welfare and into the workforce is presenting teachers, trainers and welfare workers new challenges. How can we make the transition easier? This pressing issue will be canvassed at a half day Research in Vocational Education and Training (RIVET) group colloquium at the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Wagga Wagga Campus on Tuesday 13 February. Speakers include Dr Steve Johnson, Director of the Policy Research Institute of the Leeds Metropolitan University, where he will outline the skilled workforce shortage also confronting the United Kingdom. CSU experts will also examine the social implications and various teaching strategies that can be used in the welfare to work policy. RIVET’s Associate Professor Erica Smith says “The success of Welfare to Work policy is important for individuals entering or re-entering the workforce as well as the nation.”
Media Note: The free half day Research in VET group colloquium will be held on Tuesday 13 February 2007 from 9am to 1pm, in the CSU Wine and Food Industry Training Centre, McKeown Drive, Wagga Wagga Campus. Print this story Preventing child sex tourism
12 Feb 2007
A workshop focusing on the darker side of the Asian tourism industry will be hosted next Monday 12 February by Charles Sturt University (CSU). The "Prevention of Child Sex Tourism" workshop will aim to improve Australia’s response to the problem of child sex tourism in the Asia-Pacific region. Speakers from the Australian Federal Police, the Federal Government development agency AusAID and non-government organisation Childwise as well as CSU will address the public forum. CSU lecturer and workshop organiser Sallie Yea says "Australia is prominent as a source of sex tourists in Asia. Last year for example, I interviewed 30 female minors in Cebu, the Philippines and all but two claimed to have had to service Australian clients. We hope the workshop will help address the human rights violations of the children sexually exploited in these situations." The workshop will run for the public from 9.30am to 2.30pm in the Boardroom, Gordon Beavan Building on the CSU Albury-Wodonga Campus at Thurgoona.
Media Note: For interviews and pictures with Ms Yea contact CSU Media. Print this story Best Paper Award
06 Feb 2007
 She is “first rate” and he is “just brilliant”, according to the mutual admiration society of Professor Alan Fish, Head of the International School of Business at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Dr Julie Cogin, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the Australian Graduate School of Management. They recently took out the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Best Paper in a Stream Award at the latest ANZAM Conference held in Rockhampton, Queensland. Professor Fish supervised Dr Cogin’s PhD on the environmental factors that cause sexual harassment. “The award is a reflection of the quality of her work,” he said. Dr Cogin said Professor Fish is an excellent role model and teacher. “He is so encouraging. There were a lot of obstacles and challenges, but Alan kept reminding me that success was not the destination, it was the journey. Once we had access to data, it all came together very, very quickly.”
Media Note: ANZAM is the peak professional body for management educators, researchers and practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. Professor Fish and Dr Cogin’s paper was one of 20 Best Paper winners out of 300 presented at a recent ANZAM Conference in Rockhampton, Queensland. For more information, contact CSU Media. Print this story CSU faces are everywhere
06 Feb 2007
 Late last month, the Seven Network confirmed the signing of its US Bureau Chief, Anna Coren, to host the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane editions of Today Tonight, Seven’s flagship prime time current affairs program. Ms Coren is yet another CSU alumnus to appear on national daily television. Breakfast TV rivals Melissa Doyle (Sunrise) and Jessica Rowe (Today) are also graduates of CSU’s Communication degree, as is Chris Bath, who presents Seven Late News Updates. Acting Head of the School of Communication, Bill Blaikie said, “The high profile of CSU’s Communication graduates is testimony to the quality of the people and the learning drawn to these degrees. For every highly visible graduate there are at least another 100 working just as successfully in their chosen field. Congratulations to every one of them”.
Media Note: Mr Bill Blaikie is available for interviews. Contact CSU Media. Print this story Easing the Rural Nursing Shortage
05 Feb 2007
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is set to play an increasingly important role in easing the chronic lack of registered nurses in rural Australia.
Sixty enrolled nurses (ENs) will attend residential schools on CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus over the next two weeks to begin study in the Bachelor of Nursing by distance education course.
The program is part of a partnership between CSU, the Greater Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS) and Victoria’s Hume Health.
Those sixty nurses will be officially welcomed at 10am tomorrow, Tuesday 6 February, by Head of CSU’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Elaine Duffy and the GSAHS Area Director of Nursing, Ms Moira Lewis in the Wal Fife theatre, Wagga Wagga Campus.
Nursing course coordinator Heather Latham says “This is a significant partnership and initiative to address the shortage of registered nurses in rural Australia”.
Media Note: Media note: Sixty enrolled nurses will arrive at 10am, Tuesday 6 February at the Wal Fife Theatre (building 14) in Johnson Place, CSU Wagga Wagga Campus. Contact CSU Media for interviews with Heather Latham.
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telephone (02) 6933 2207, mobile 0422 531019, email pandrea@csu.edu.au or see CSU News www.csu.edu.au/news Print this story Regional Rail On Track
30 Jan 2007
Are we riding the rails of success or running off the track? That answer could be found at The Future Frameworks for Regional Rail symposium, hosted by the Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA). To be held on Thursday 1 February 2007 at the CSU Wagga Wagga Campus, the symposium will examine what can be done to rejuvenate regional rail transport. CSU’s Associate Professor Ian Gray and speakers from Canada and across Australia will address representatives of the rail industry, regional communities, industry and government, sharing ideas on how to keep rail networks viable and on track in regional areas. CSU’s Professor Ian Gray says, “trains offer a huge carrying capacity, trucks offer flexibility, so it makes sense to combine the benefits of both”. Professor Gray believes, “rail could make a comeback by combining with road transport to create an integrated system, if planning and management was done at a regional level”.
Media Note: Further information available at the conference website. The Symposium will be held at the CSU Convention Centre Wagga Wagga Campus and starts at 10am on Thursday 1 February 2007.
Print this story Course the answer to rural health crisis
30 Jan 2007
 “This course will help solve the issues surrounding the rural health crisis,” says Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bachelor of Clinical Sciences course coordinator Dr Deborah Burton. Dr Burton is looking forward to the first week of university study on Monday 26 February when the Clinical Sciences course begins. The Bachelor of Clinical Science is offered from the Orange Campus of CSU and has been established in collaboration with the University of Sydney's Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Medicine. “It’s the only course of its kind that provides a specific education pathway from the undergraduate CSU degree into the University of Sydney graduate entry programs for eligible graduates.” The Bachelor of Clinical Science has been developed with curriculum specifically designed to meet the expectations of graduate entry dentistry, medicine and other health programs across Australia. Places are still available for 2007 enrolments. For more information contact CSU on 1800 334 733 or visit www.csu.edu.au
Media Note: Dr Deborah Burton is available for interviews. Contact CSU Media Print this story Prevention of Child Sex Tourism workshop at CSU Albury
30 Jan 2007
The problem of child sex tourism will be discussed at a workshop at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Albury on Monday 12 February. “The purpose of the workshop is to achieve some consensus on what Australia is doing to respond to this problem in the Asia-Pacific region, and how strategies and responses can be better focused and improved”, said CSU lecturer in tourism and workshop convenor Dr Sallie Yea. Invited speakers include representatives from the Australian Federal Police, AusAID, Australian Institute of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney, ChildWise, and CSU. The workshop will be held in the Administration Building boardroom at the CSU Thurgoona Campus in Albury between 9.30 am - 4.30 pm. The morning sessions of the workshop will be open to CSU staff and the general public, at a cost of $20 to cover catering, but places are limited. For more information please contact Dr Sallie Yea, Lecturer in the School of Business and Information Technology, on 0419 530 058 or (02) 6051 9921.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media for interviews with Dr Sallie Yea. Print this story Small scale winery to show the way
24 Jan 2007
 An innovative experimental winery is set to enhance Australia’s reputation for producing a quality product from the fruit of the vine. The new winery, to be launched on Tuesday 30 January, will be built next to the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre on Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Wagga Wagga Campus, the result of a partnership between CSU, NSW Wine Industry Association and NSW Department of Primary Industries. Director of the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, CSU’s Professor Geoff Scollary says “This year 120 different wines will be produced at the CSU Winery. The expansion will allow production to increase to 150 for the 2008 vintage and provide grape growers and wine producers with strong scientific and practical information to ensure the Australian wine industry remains sustainable and profitable”. Professor Scollary believes the expansion “will further establish CSU as one of the nation’s leading wine extension and research centres”.
Media Note: For interviews on the new small-scale winery with Professor Geoff Scollary, contact CSU Media. Print this story |
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