Archive
Together, Building a Better Educated Community
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003More than 50 people attended the first Parkes Higher Education Forum in the Coventry Room at Parkes on Thursday 16 December including Mayor Cr Ken Keith, independent local MP Dawn Fardell, representatives from the local high school, business and industry.
Emergency management students will learn from Cyclone Yasi
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Every emergency crisis presents an opportunity for emergency managers, and the crisis communication response of the Queensland government to Cyclone Yasi will form an excellent case study for students at CSU.
Doctor shortage remains a key focus
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The Dean of the Faculty of Science at CSU, Professor Nick Klomp, called on the Federal Government to accelerate its consideration of CSU's proposal for a new rural medical school in light of findings by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that health services are becoming less accessible for the majority of people living in rural and regional Australia.
Mine research investigates sustainable solution
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003What happens to the excavated waste rock at one of Australia’s significant mine sites when the mine closes? This topic isn’t being taken lightly by Newcrest Mining at Cadia Valley, 20 kilometres southwest of the city of Orange in NSW where PhD student in Charles Sturt University's (CSU) School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Mr Allan Adams is investigating a sustainable solution.
Healthy ten year track record for nutrition and dietetics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003It could be described as CSU’s quiet achiever.
PM's proposed carbon tax - a slow compromise
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A CSU academic says the carbon tax proposal announced yesterday by The Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, is a compromise that will be slow to provide the economy with the price incentives needed to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
Collaborative research helps diabetics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A research project that has spanned eleven years, and across four regional cities, is giving hope to diabetes sufferers internationally.
Disability insurance highlights international commitment
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Australia should introduce a national disability insurance scheme as it supports the commitment the nation made when the then Federal government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability in July 2008, according to a CSU academic in health services.
Sad loss of well-respected CSU education academic
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The communities of CSU and Bathurst are saddened by the death of Mr Bob Dengate, a leading teacher educator, education innovator, and local radio presenter.
CSU's TAFE-University Centres bid progresses to Stage Two
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Charles Sturt University Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education Employment and Workplace Relations, The Hon. Chris Evans, MP, that its bid to establish new TAFE-University Centres in Parkes, Wangarratta, Port Macquarie, Griffith and Deniliquin, and expand its Centre for Indigenous Studies in Dubbo, will progress to Stage Two of the Structural Adjustment Funding round.